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algebraist

American  
[al-juh-brey-ist] / ˈæl dʒəˌbreɪ ɪst /

noun

  1. an expert in algebra.


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Etymology

Origin of algebraist

First recorded in 1665–75; algebra + -ist

Example Sentences

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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

Mathematics received an impulse, largely, it is true, from the Arabs of Spain, but also from the East; Leonardo Fibonacci, the first Christian algebraist, had travelled in Syria and Egypt.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various

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 Morley, John

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 Dudeney, Henry Ernest

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