algebraist
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And that is why the great algebraist, Carl Jacobi, so often said: “invert, always invert.”
From Time ● Feb. 23, 2015
Igor Shafarevich, a world-famous algebraist, told Western newsmen that the aim of the essays was to bring about fundamental changes in the U.S.S.R.
From Time Magazine Archive
Where Pope or Racine had one rule of metre, Victor Hugo has twenty, and he observes them as rigorously as an algebraist or an astronomer observes the rules of calculation or demonstration.
From Critical Miscellanies, Volume I (of 3) Essay 4: Macaulay by John Morley
The arithmetician, the algebraist, and more generally the analyst, in whom invention obtains in the most abstract form of discontinuous functions—symbols and their relations—cannot imagine like the geometrician.
From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron
These range from the puzzle that the algebraist finds to be nothing but a "simple equation," quite easy of direct solution, up to the profoundest problems in the elegant domain of the theory of numbers.
From The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney
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