Pure mathematics
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In the context of the philosophy of mathematics, pure mathematics is an informal term to describe the study of mathematical concepts independently of any application outside mathematics. These concept
Pure mathematics is an informal term to describe the study of the properties and structure of abstract objects, such as the Mandelbrot set. This may be done without focusing on concrete applications of concepts in the physical world.
Nicolas Bourbaki
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Nicolas Bourbaki is the collective pseudonym of a group of mathematicians, predominantly French alumni of the École normale supérieure. Founded in 1934–1935, the Bourbaki group originally intended to
Charles-Denis Bourbaki, 19th-century general and namesake of the collective
Gaston Julia (right), who was not a member of Bourbaki, lost his nose during World War I. The war created a lost generation of mathematical knowledge, which the Bourbaki founders sought to fill.
Sign marking the official founding of Bourbaki in Besse-en-Chandesse
First book of the Éléments de mathématique, 1970 edition