algebraist
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- subalgebraist noun
Etymology
Origin of algebraist
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
Its fundamental character, from which the others are derived, is thus a way of thinking symbolically; but the algebraist also thinks by means of symbols, yet is not on that account a mystic.
From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Baron, Albert Heyem Nachmen
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 Baron, Albert Heyem Nachmen
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