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  2. Teachers Tell All: Reddit Users Share What Gifts Actually ...

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    Forget everything you thought you knew about teacher gifts because Reddit's educators are spilling the tea hotter than a faculty room coffee pot. It turns out, while that "#1 Teacher" mug ...

  3. Pure mathematics - Wikipedia

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    Mathematicians have always had differing opinions regarding the distinction between pure and applied mathematics. One of the most famous (but perhaps misunderstood) modern examples of this debate can be found in G.H. Hardy's 1940 essay A Mathematician's Apology. It is widely believed that Hardy considered applied mathematics to be ugly and dull.

  4. Talk:Pure mathematics - Wikipedia

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    This is not true. Pure and applied mathematics are not hostile to each other. Pure and applied mathematics have never been hostile to each other. Pure and applied mathematics cannot be hostile to each other because, in fact, there is absolutely nothing in common between them."Paul August ☎ 00:22, 27 November 2018 (UTC)

  5. A Mathematician's Apology - Wikipedia

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    A Mathematician's Apology 1st edition Author G. H. Hardy Subjects Philosophy of mathematics, mathematical beauty Publisher Cambridge University Press Publication date 1940 OCLC 488849413 A Mathematician's Apology is a 1940 essay by British mathematician G. H. Hardy which defends the pursuit of mathematics for its own sake. Central to Hardy's "apology" – in the sense of a formal justification ...

  6. Mathematician - Wikipedia

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    Pure mathematics is mathematics that studies entirely abstract concepts. From the eighteenth century onwards, this was a recognized category of mathematical activity, sometimes characterized as speculative mathematics , [ 12 ] and at variance with the trend towards meeting the needs of navigation , astronomy , physics , economics , engineering ...

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  8. Mathematical Association of America - Wikipedia

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    The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) is a professional society that focuses on mathematics accessible at the undergraduate level. Members include university, college, and high school teachers; graduate and undergraduate students; pure and applied mathematicians; computer scientists; statisticians; and many others in academia, government, business, and industry.

  9. Mathematical beauty - Wikipedia

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    Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.