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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

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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

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 Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron

It is, however, but too true; it is a calculation easy to make, and therefore unworthy of an algebraist like you, marquis.

From The Queen's Necklace by Alexandre Dumas père

It is our opinion that these things are true, although we may never have visited Palmyra or Thebes, nor made the calculations of the algebraist, nor the observations of the astronomer.

From A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning by George Jacob Holyoake

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