I suspect you're not familiar with archangelbeth's Illuminati University (http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/IOU/), so let me share a bit from the departmental descriptions:
College of Zen Surrealism: Department of Inapplicable Mathematics Since sufficiently advanced mathematics is indistinguishable from surrealism, the "pure math" people have ended up here. ("Applied Mathematics" lives over in WUSE*) In fact, advanced theoretical math is so disconnected from reality that surrealism is concrete in comparison.
There is no market for graduates of this department whatsoever, except for a few who become university mathematics professors.
A well-kept secret at IOU is the fact that the output of some of the departments here actually have practical applications. It is especially important to keep the professors in CZS from discovering this, lest they suffer from the Centipede's Dilemma.
*WUSE: The College of Weird and Unnatural Sciences and Engineering. Specializes in computers, gadgets, and explosions.
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Date: 2007-03-28 03:29 am (UTC)College of Zen Surrealism:
Department of Inapplicable Mathematics
Since sufficiently advanced mathematics is indistinguishable from surrealism, the "pure math" people have ended up here. ("Applied Mathematics" lives over in WUSE*) In fact, advanced theoretical math is so disconnected from reality that surrealism is concrete in comparison.
There is no market for graduates of this department whatsoever, except for a few who become university mathematics professors.
A well-kept secret at IOU is the fact that the output of some of the departments here actually have practical applications. It is especially important to keep the professors in CZS from discovering this, lest they suffer from the Centipede's Dilemma.
*WUSE: The College of Weird and Unnatural Sciences and Engineering. Specializes in computers, gadgets, and explosions.