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pure mathematics [′pyu̇r ‚math·ə′mad·iks] (mathematics) The intrinsic study of mathematical structures, with no consideration given as to the utility of the results for practical purposes. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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As students show evidence of this breakthrough, they should
be introduced to abstract mathematics and to mathematical treatments of
the physical and biological sciences. In a lament that might be-heard today, a teacher charged in a 1958
letter to the same publication that "the traditional curriculum is
meaningless, and by heading for abstract mathematics, the modernists are
moving further away from reality. That is a world that we can't visualize, but we can
understand it using very abstract mathematics, ultimately the
mathematics of spontaneously broken, gauge-field theories. |
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