Mathematics is power ... without it society would have remained at the level of that in Yorkshire. Mathematicians were so important to military success in WW ll, that Churchill referred to the mathematicians at Bletchley Park as "the geese that laid the golden eggs and never cackled."
By the way, when you guys were trying to figure out how many pints you could get for 20 pounds, how come nobody figured in the tip? Bunch of cheap sonsabitches, eh.
