1175.- Y vos para quien trabajas?

Toda la matemática se divide en tres partes: criptografía (pagada por la CIA, KGB y similares), hidrodinámica (apoyada por los fabricantes de submarinos atómicos) y mecánica celeste (financiada por instituciones militares y otras que se ocupan de misiles, como la NASA).

V. Arnold, Mathematics: Frontiers and Perspectives, AMS 2000

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Cryptography has generated number theory, algebraic geometry over finite felds, algebra (the creator of modern algebra, Viete, was the cryptographer of King Henry IV of France), combinatorics and computers.

Hydrodynamics procreated complex analysis, partial derivative equations, Lie groups and algebra theory, cohomology theory and scientific computing.

Celestial mechanics is the origin of dynamical systems, linear algebra, topology, variational calculus and symplectic geometry.

The existence of mysterious relations between all these different domains is the most striking and delightful feature of mathematics (having no rational explanation).