mathematician
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- nonmathematician noun
Etymology
Origin of mathematician
First recorded in 1400–50, mathematician is from the late Middle English word mathematicion. See mathematics, -ian
Example Sentences
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He’s a Cambridge man and belongs to the cardigan corps of mathematicians.
From Literature
If the latter is only a year or two away, rather than the decade mathematicians previously thought, then the possibility looms that bitcoin’s integrity could be breached and bitcoin wallets stolen or compromised.
From MarketWatch
Milne, like Lewis Carroll, was trained as a mathematician, and some of his dialogue reads like Tom Stoppard doing Wittgenstein: “How are you?”
A new study by mathematicians at Freie Universität Berlin shows that planar tiling, also known as tessellation, is far more than a decorative technique.
From Science Daily
Born in Sweden to a Swedish psychologist mother and American mathematician father, Tegmark studied economics before shifting to physics, earning his Ph.D. in the subject from the University of California at Berkeley.
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