[supertofu]

Pure Math is often incredibly relevant to society about 300 years down the line.

[Jensson]

300 years ago calculus was new, so there isn't much pure math that is 300 years or older.

[tim333]

Pythagoras and Euclid were around for a while.

>“Geometry is knowledge of the eternally existent,” (“Sacred Mathematics”). This quotation by Plato, an Ancient Greek philosopher, demonstrates the importance of geometry to the foundations of the universe.

To me that illustrates a depth to maths which is absent from Haskell and Jazz.

Also from Wikipedia:

>Evidence for more complex mathematics does not appear until around 3000 BC, when the Babylonians and Egyptians began using arithmetic, algebra, and geometry...