NOUN
- the branches of mathematics that study and develop the principles of mathematics for their own sake rather than for their immediate usefulness
How To Use pure mathematics In A Sentence
- Whittaker was elected as a fellow of Trinity College in 1896 and became first Smith's prizeman in 1897 for a work on pure mathematics, namely on uniform functions.
- Even in pure mathematics, he met with one bitter disappointment.
- In the mathematics I can report no deficience, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand this excellent use of the pure mathematics, in that they do remedy and cure many defects in the wit and faculties intellectual. The Advancement of Learning
- But among the remaining parts of Pure Mathematics we have the theory of Elliptic Functions and of the Jacobian and Abelian Functions, and the theory of Differential Equations, including of course Partial Differential Equations. Autobiography
- Pure mathematics is, in the way, the poetry of logical ideas.
- This work is really the first in history on trigonometry as an independent branch of pure mathematics and the first in which all six cases for a right-angled spherical triangle are set forth.
- He is the founder of pure mathematics and the father of computer science. Times, Sunday Times
- Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
- Whittaker accepted the chair of pure mathematics at the University of Liverpool in 1933.
- Pure mathematics is not the rival, even less is it the handmaid, of other branches of science.
