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

A linear equation like 4x – 12 = 0 is extremely simple to solve, and such problems didn’t entertain algebraists for very long.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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