Pure mathematics is concerned with the study of abstract structures and intrinsic properties of mathematical objects, independent of practical applications. This field encompasses a variety of domains ...

The artificial intelligence (AI) program DeepMind has gotten closer to proving a math conjecture that's bedeviled mathematicians for decades and revealed another new conjecture that may unravel how ...

Lashi Bandara is affiliated with Australian National University. These are questions I’m often confronted with when people discover I do pure mathematics. I always manage to provide an answer but it ...

A branch of maths is being threatened by the focus of other subjects, a campaign has warned. 'Pure maths' is the popular subject in its most basic form. Demonstrated by the genius Alan Turing when he ...

Vol. 196, No. 9, Special Issue on The Uses and Abuses of Mathematics in Early Modern Philosophy (September 2019), pp. 3527-3549 (23 pages) The empress of Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World ...

The aim of this paper is to shed light on the distinction between pure and empirical intuition, and on and the role of imagination as the exhibition of concepts in intuition, in mathematical ...

Abstract, pure math – solving disembodied equations filled with x's and y's – can often seem boring. Creative math teachers commonly try to come up with concrete, real-world examples to motivate ...