Timeline for When did the distinction between "pure" and "applied" mathematics become common?
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| Oct 16 at 5:56 | answer | added | Franz Lemmermeyer | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 7 at 23:51 | history | edited | shuhalo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 7 at 8:59 | history | edited | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
typo corrected, as noted by Cranium Clamp
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| Oct 7 at 4:49 | comment | added | Cranium Clamp | The correct spelling is ‘Kerala’. The word ‘Karela’ means a bitter gourd (vegetable) in a certain language in India. | |
| Oct 6 at 17:13 | comment | added | plm | Hi @DavidRoberts, Thank you, i will try that. Under space constraint i did not precise that the only thing i picked from GPT4 was « the term appeared in the late 19th century ». The rest is the unsafe product of my own brain - sorry. ZM references Klein, that would be from the late 19th century. Carlo also gives facts compatible with the late 19th century. As a side note i find it sane exercise to use GPTn every now and then, paying attention to biases, style, accuracy. I also keep in mind analyses like arxiv.org/pdf/2311.06981 . Finally i happen to have rarely been convinced by GPTn. | |
| Oct 6 at 11:02 | history | edited | shuhalo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 5 at 22:15 | comment | added | David Roberts♦ | @pm ChatGPT is designed to be convincing. Go and find some primary sources to back up its claims and then tell people. Anything ChatGPT generates is hardly admissible evidence in court... :-) | |
| Oct 5 at 18:23 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Oct 5 at 14:02 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 5 at 13:42 | comment | added | LSpice | I’m voting to close this question because it is more appropriate for HSMSE. | |
| Oct 5 at 10:46 | comment | added | Z. M | Let me mention that such a distinction appears in F. Klein's Development of Mathematics in the 19th Century in the context of Gauß, thus it should be at least earlier than when F. Klein wrote this. | |
| Oct 5 at 10:44 | answer | added | Carlo Beenakker | timeline score: 23 | |
| Oct 5 at 10:44 | comment | added | plm | GPT4 gives a convincing answer: the term appeared in the late 19th century when specialization and the math community began to be large enough. The last universal mathematicians were probably Hilbert and Poincaré, who both worked somewhat in applied maths. Hilbert in continuum physics, eg with the Riemann-Hilbert shock problem, Poincaré in celestial mechanics. It is also the time when rigor demands increased, with the push to formalize maths - Frege, Dedekind, Peano, Hilbert,... So there was a growing gap between math and physics, where applied maths sprang. WW1 then promoted this trend. | |
| Oct 5 at 10:21 | history | asked | shuhalo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |