Purity in Applications

Tim Poston
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Tim Poston: University of Stuttgart, Institut für Theoretische Physik

A chapter in Mathematics Tomorrow, 1981, pp 49-54 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract When I was seventeen I regarded myself as a Pure Mathematician. There was perhaps arrogance in this—mathematically my academic record was not prodigious, and my purity was open to all sorts of doubt—but it is worth considering what I meant by it.

Keywords: Pure Mathematic; Catastrophe Theory; Inviscid Flow; Competent Mathematician; Academic Record (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1981
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-8127-3_6

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