Usage of "pure mathematics"

Russian

абстрактная математика

Portuguese

matemática pura

Spanish

matematicas especulativas

Catalan

matemàtica pura

Mathematics which studies entirely abstract concepts.

applied mathematics

Related terms

абстрактная математика

Usage of pure mathematics in English

Professor Cayley has devoted his life to the advancement of pure mathematics. 
 The British Association's Visit to Montreal, 1884 : Letters 

He asked me if Mrs. Somerville was now occupied with pure mathematics. 
 Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals 

This embraces pure mathematics and the methods of science in their widest range. 
 Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science 

If it was concerned with pure mathematics, he co-operated and dealt with it properly. 
 The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke 

I used to do very pure mathematics -symplectic topology. 
 Wired 

The modern mathematician will readily sympathise with Plato's delight in the properties of pure mathematics. 
 The Republic 

He's taking pure mathematics and I'm taking constitutional history. 
 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 

I have many side projects and one of those side projects is this pure mathematics project. 
 Wired 

Where does pure mathematics come into these discussions? 
 Wired 

A good deal of what passes for pure mathematics consists in whirring works with nothing edible inside. 
 The Tyranny Of Words 

The question which Kant put at the beginning of his philosophy, namely 'How is pure mathematics possible?' 
 The Problems of Philosophy 

The Association learned last year at Southport what a glorious realm of beauty there was in pure mathematics. 
 The British Association's Visit to Montreal, 1884 : Letters 

It's such a complicated thing that I don't think pure mathematics will work -we need to develop something neural. 
 The Guardian 

It's like pure mathematics. 
 Life and Death of Harriett Frean 

Hence it is absurd to have an opinion in pure mathematics; we must know, or abstain from forming a judgement altogether. 
 The Critique of Pure Reason 

For the sake of these, every Physical Subject and every useful application of pure mathematics are cut down or not mentioned. 
 Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy 