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Originally posted by Kaimetsu
I don't like such definitions. If somebody suddenly found a practical use for an area of pure maths, would it suddenly become applied? Maths shouldn't be classified by how it is used.
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Actually that has happened. Boolean algebra lay useless for about a century until computers were invented.
Also, tell that to the mathematicians. Pure mathematicians have a tendency to look down their noses at applied mathematicians like myself. And applied mathematicians tend to wonder why you need more than one way to prove that the square root of two is irrational.