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What is pure mathematics? What do pure mathematicians do? Why is pure mathematics important? These are questions I’m often confronted with when people discover I do pure mathematics. I always manage ...

Mathematics is full of weird number systems that most people have never heard of and would have trouble even conceptualizing. But rational numbers are familiar. They’re the counting numbers and the ...

The discovery of the connection between genetics and pure mathematics highlights again how the universe is more logical and pattern based than most realise writes Satyen K. Bordoloi. One of the ...

The craze for computer applications and software related subjects rather than pure sciences like mathematics continues among parents and students alike, despite Information Technology sector's ...

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 ...