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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mathematician
noun
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■ ADJECTIVE
brilliant
▪ A brilliant mathematician and a natural-born bomb-maker.
great
▪ None other than the greatest mathematician in the world.
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▪ A brilliant mathematician and a natural-born bomb-maker.
▪ A.. Only to another mathematician.
▪ As a mathematician, Bertrand Russell pointed out that while there were two nuclear powers, only those two powers could quarrel.
▪ He was staring at her as though he was piecing together bits of her personality like a mathematician working on some equation.
▪ It may strike you as rather remarkable that this is possible, but the mathematicians assure us that it can be done.
▪ We teachers became mathematicians, seeing all these bloody points, but we lost track of the line.
▪ What these mathematicians had in common with most of those who worked in laboratories was that the majority were attached to universities.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mathematician

Mathematician \Math`e*ma*ti"cian\, n. [Cf. F. math['e]maticien.] One versed in mathematics.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mathematician

early 15c., from Middle French mathematicien, from mathematique, from Latin mathematicus (see mathematic).

Wiktionary
mathematician

n. An expert on mathematics.

WordNet
mathematician

n. a person skilled in mathematics

Wikipedia
Mathematician

A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in his/her work, typically to solve mathematical problems.

Mathematics is concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.

Usage examples of "mathematician".

Robert Cardinal Bellarmine, the foremost Vatican theologian in the early seventeenth century, and suffices for the mathematicians.

A Requiem for Homo Sapiens by Horthy Hosthoh, Timekeeper and Lord Horologe of the Order of Mystic Mathematicians and Other Seekers of the Ineffable Flame There Is infinite hope, but not for Man.

Mari, the mathematician, for the navigation of the Mincio from Mantua to Peschiera.

Egan uses this familiar setup to juxtapose two characters of radically different philosophies, based on the British mathematician Alan Turing and the medievalist, fantasist, and popular theologian C.

She is layered with the finest of mathematicians and imprimaturs and phantasts, as well as the sludge of autists, exemplars, and Yarkona slel-neckers.

Among the pupils who turned up in large numbers was a young woman, a Mademoiselle Pigeon, the daughter of the very clever mathematician who designed the two very fine planispheres which were transferred from the Jardin du Roi to the galleries of the Academy of Sciences.

Schoner to see at a glance that it can only be the region on which the Nuremberg mathematician has inscribed, in 1533, the legend: Terra Australis recenter inventa, sed nondum plene cognita.

When I should have been looking after my quaternions, I was doing something else, something not so useful to one who would be a mathematician, but perhaps more useful to a writer who had already learnt enough to count the words in an article and to estimate the number of guineas due to him.

He gave the impression of residing permanently in a special paradise of transcendental and transfinite numbers and of the hieroglyphs of symbolic logic, for whose manipulations he had a nationally recognized fame among mathematicians.

In a rare foray into the unclassified world, then-director Minihan expressed his worry to a convention of mathematicians in 1998.

Schoner to see at a glance that it can only be the region on which the Nuremberg mathematician has inscribed, in 1533, the legend: Terra Australis recenter inventa, sed nondum plene cognita.

Eighteenth-century Swiss mathematician Daniel Bernoulli discovered that the faster a fluid moves, the lower its pressure.

Italy, but now that he ventured to attack the well-known Brescian student, mathematicians began to anticipate an encounter of more than common interest.

Obliged to dine in hall that evening to fulfil his quota, Jack sat between a terse mathematician and a zoologist called Lascelles who was full of a recent field trip to the Cameroons to study butterflies.

Over the end of the year, the two mathematicians, Casanova and Opiz, at the request of Count Waldstein, made a scientific examination of the reform of the calendar as decreed the 5th October 1793 by the National Convention.