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geometrician

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[jee-om-i-trish-uhn, jee-uh-mi-] / dʒiˌɒm ɪˈtrɪʃ ən, ˌdʒi ə mɪ- /

noun

  1. a person skilled in geometry.


Etymology

Origin of geometrician

First recorded in 1475–85; geometric + -ian


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Archimedes was also a geometrician, best remembered for his applications of geometry to engineering.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020

Joe Lunardi, ESPN’s bracket geometrician, pegged Duke and Virginia as “locks” for No. 1s on Saturday midafternoon and then by late afternoon, after Kentucky’s loss, saw North Carolina and Gonzaga as the other No. 1s.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2019

The movie believes enough in him as possibly the greatest ever geometrician of shots to marvel at the angles.

From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2018

Number theorist Peter Scholze, who became Germany’s youngest ever full professor aged 24, and geometrician Caucher Birkar—a Kurdish refugee—are among the winners of this year’s Fields Medals, the most coveted awards in mathematics.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 1, 2018

Without the love of the beautiful, the artist will produce only works that are perhaps regular but frigid, that will possibly please the geometrician, but not the man of taste.

From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin

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