fortune math

It has been said that the First World War was the chemists' war because
mustard gas and chlorine were empolyed for the first time, and that the
Second World War was the physicists war, because the atom bomb was 
detonated. Similarly, it has been argued that the Third World War would
be the mathematicians' war, because mathematics will have control over
the next great weapon of war - information. 
                           --  Simon Singh, in 'The code book'