Friday, 10 November 2017

funding - Why would a security agency distribute research funds?


I was reading this excellent paper by Alexander Berkovich and Will Jagy.


And at the very bottom of the very first page it says:




The first author was supported in part by NSA grant H98230-09-1-0051.



(The NSA is the US National Security Agency.)


What does this mean? What does a security agency have to do with distributing funds?




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