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Definition 1: the branches of mathematics that study and develop the principles of mathematics for their own sake rather than for their immediate usefulness - [noun denoting cognition]
(pure mathematics is a kind of ...) a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement
(... is a kind of pure mathematics ) the branch of pure mathematics that deals only with the properties of a figure X that hold for every figure into which X can be transformed with a one-to-one correspondence that is continuous in both directions
(... is a kind of pure mathematics ) (mathematics) the branch of mathematics that studies algorithms for approximating solutions to problems in the infinitesimal calculus