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mathematician

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FromMiddle Englishmathematicion, fromMiddle Frenchmathematicien, frommathematique f sg(“mathematics”) (fromLatinmathēmatica, feminine ofmathēmaticus, fromAncient Greekμαθηματικός(mathēmatikós,“fond of learning”), fromμάθημα(máthēma,“knowledge, learning”) +-ικός(-ikós)) +Middle French-ien (fromLatin-iānus). Displaced nativeOld Englishrīmcræftiga. Bysurface analysis,mathematic +‎-ian.

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mathematician (pluralmathematicians)

  1. An expert onmathematics; someone who studies mathematics.
    • 1992 March 2, Richard Preston, “The Mountains of Pi”, inThe New Yorker‎[1], archived fromthe original on23 March 2020:
      I suspect that in their hearts most workingmathematicians arePlatonists, in that they take it as a matter of unassailable if unprovable fact that mathematical reality stands apart from the world, and is at least as real as the world, and possibly gives shape to the world, asPlato suggested. Mostmathematicians would probably agree that theratio of the circle to its diameter exists brilliantly in the nature beyond nature, and would exist even if the human mind was not aware of it, and might exist even ifGod had not bothered to create it.
    • 2015 July 24, Gareth Cook, “The Singular Mind of Terry Tao”, inThe New York Times Magazine‎[2], New York, N.Y.:The New York Times Company,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on18 March 2020:
      The true work of themathematician is not experienced until the later parts of graduate school, when the student is challenged to create knowledge in the form of a novel proof.

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expert in mathematics

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