Who said: "There is no connection between theoretical and applied mathematics"?

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Request for Question Clarification by bobbie7-ga on 15 Feb 2003 21:20 PST

Hello Barrington-ga, 

Could the quotation be  "But there is a difference between
mathematical models of computation and practical implementations of
computing systems just as there is a difference between theoretical
and applied mathematics." by Brad Sherman

Source: Program Verification: The Very Idea Collected by Brad Cox in
support of the paradoxical goals of the Middle of Nowhere project.
Discussion on usenet in response to H. Fetzer, Program Verification:
The Very Idea, Comm. ACM, Sept. 1988.
http://www.virtualschool.edu/mon/SoftwareEngineering/FetzerVerificationVeryIdea.html

Henry O. Pollak has been quoted to the contrary, stating "There is no
real distinction between pure mathematics and applied mathematics.
There is only a difference between good mathematics and uninteresting
mathematics."

http://www.ams.org/employment/chung.html

However, Peter Gould did comment that "Far from mathematical
structures being created for their own sake, and then being applied to
areas of scientific inquiry, the weight of evidence is for exactly the
reverse."

See footnote 10 of:
http://www.mitteleuropafoundation.it/RP/Papers/Lesniewski%20Grazer.pdf