algebraist

[al-juh-brey-ist]

noun

1. an expert in algebra.

Other Word Forms

• subalgebraist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of algebraist¹

First recorded in 1665–75; algebra + -ist

Example Sentences

Negative numbers had long been useful to algebraists—even Western algebraists.

From Literature

And that is why the great algebraist, Carl Jacobi, so often said: “invert, always invert.”

From Time

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 Project Gutenberg

The same method applied to a problem given by the ancient Hindu algebraist Brahmagupta, who lived in the seventh century after Christ, might result in placing Brahmagupta in prehistoric times.

From Project Gutenberg

We believe in the existence of the ruins of Palmyra and Thebes, and in certain discoveries of algebraists and astronomers.

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