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MATHEMATICIAN

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Meaning:

A person skilled in mathematics

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("mathematician" is a kind of...):

scientist (a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences)

Domain category:

math; mathematics; maths (a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mathematician"):

algebraist (a mathematician whose specialty is algebra)

arithmetician (someone who specializes in arithmetic)

geometer; geometrician (a mathematician specializing in geometry)

number theorist (a mathematician specializing in number theory)

probability theorist (a mathematician who specializes in probability theory)

mathematical statistician; statistician (a mathematician who specializes in statistics)

trigonometrician (a mathematician specializing in trigonometry)

Instance hyponyms:

Emmy Noether; Noether (German mathematician (1882-1935))

Isaac Newton; Newton; Sir Isaac Newton (English mathematician and physicist; remembered for developing the calculus and for his law of gravitation and his three laws of motion (1642-1727))

John Napier; Napier (Scottish mathematician who invented logarithms; introduced the use of the decimal point in writing numbers (1550-1617))

Johann Muller; Muller; Regiomontanus (German mathematician and astronomer (1436-1476))

August F. Mobius; August Ferdinand Mobius; Mobius (German mathematician responsible for the Mobius strip (1790-1868))

Hermann Minkowski; Minkowski (German mathematician (born in Russia) who suggested the concept of four-dimensional space-time (1864-1909))

Andre Markoff; Andrei Markov; Markoff; Markov (Russian mathematician (1856-1922))

Benoit Mandelbrot; Mandelbrot (French mathematician (born in Poland) noted for inventing fractals (born in 1924))

Lobachevsky; Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (Russian mathematician who independently discovered non-Euclidean geometry (1792-1856))

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz; Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz; Leibnitz; Leibniz (German philosopher and mathematician who thought of the universe as consisting of independent monads and who devised a system of the calculus independent of Newton (1646-1716))

Laplace; Marquis de Laplace; Pierre Simon de Laplace (French mathematician and astronomer who formulated the nebular hypothesis concerning the origins of the solar system and who developed the theory of probability (1749-1827))

Kronecker; Leopold Kronecker (German mathematician (1823-1891))

Omar Khayyam (Persian poet and mathematician and astronomer whose poetry was popularized by Edward Fitzgerald's translation (1050-1123))

Blaise Pascal; Pascal (French mathematician and philosopher and Jansenist; invented an adding machine; contributed (with Fermat) to the theory of probability (1623-1662))

Benjamin Peirce; Peirce (United States mathematician and astronomer remembered for his studies of Uranus and Saturn and Neptune (1809-1880))

Pythagoras (Greek philosopher and mathematician who proved the Pythagorean theorem; considered to be the first true mathematician (circa 580-500 BC))

Bernhard Riemann; Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann; Riemann (pioneer of non-Euclidean geometry (1826-1866))

Alan Mathison Turing; Alan Turing; Turing (English mathematician who conceived of the Turing machine and broke German codes during World War II (1912-1954))

Oswald Veblen; Veblen (United States mathematician (1880-1960))

Paul Vernier; Vernier (French mathematician who described the vernier scale (1580-1637))

John von Neumann; Neumann; von Neumann (United States mathematician who contributed to the development of atom bombs and of stored-program digital computers (1903-1957))

Andre Weil; Weil (United States mathematician (born in France) (1906-1998))

Alfred North Whitehead; Whitehead (English philosopher and mathematician who collaborated with Bertrand Russell (1861-1947))

Norbert Wiener; Wiener (United States mathematician and founder of cybernetics (1894-1964))

Abel; Niels Abel; Niels Henrik Abel (Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829))

Al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham; al-Haytham; Alhacen; Alhazen; Ibn al-Haytham (an Egyptian polymath (born in Iraq) whose research in geometry and optics was influential into the 17th century; established experiments as the norm of proof in physics (died in 1040))

Archimedes (Greek mathematician and physicist noted for his work in hydrostatics and mechanics and geometry (287-212 BC))

Bayes; Thomas Bayes (English mathematician for whom Bayes' theorem is named (1702-1761))

Bernoulli; Jacques Bernoulli; Jakob Bernoulli; James Bernoulli (Swiss mathematician (1654-1705))

Bernoulli; Jean Bernoulli; Johann Bernoulli; John Bernoulli (Swiss mathematician (1667-1748))

Bessel; Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (German mathematician and astronomer who made accurate measurements of stellar distances and who predicted the existence on an 8th planet (1784-1846))

Boole; George Boole (English mathematician; creator of Boolean algebra (1815-1864))

Bowditch; Nathaniel Bowditch (United States mathematician and astronomer noted for his works on navigation (1773-1838))

Condorcet; Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat; Marquis de Condorcet (French mathematician and philosopher (1743-1794))

Descartes; Rene Descartes (French philosopher and mathematician; developed dualistic theory of mind and matter; introduced the use of coordinates to locate a point in two or three dimensions (1596-1650))

Diophantus (Greek mathematician who was the first to try to develop an algebraic notation (3rd century))

Eratosthenes (Greek mathematician and astronomer who estimated the circumference of the earth and the distances to the Moon and sun (276-194 BC))

Euler; Leonhard Euler (Swiss mathematician (1707-1783))

Fermat; Pierre de Fermat (French mathematician who founded number theory; contributed (with Pascal) to the theory of probability (1601-1665))

Baron Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier; Fourier; Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (French mathematician who developed Fourier analysis and studied the conduction of heat (1768-1830))

Evariste Galois; Galois (French mathematician who described the conditions for solving polynomial equations; was killed in a duel at the age of 21 (1811-1832))

Gauss; Karl Friedrich Gauss; Karl Gauss (German mathematician who developed the theory of numbers and who applied mathematics to electricity and magnetism and astronomy and geodesy (1777-1855))

Godel; Kurt Godel (United States mathematician (born in Austria) who is remembered principally for demonstrating the limitations of axiomatic systems (1906-1978))

Hamilton; Sir William Rowan Hamilton; William Rowan Hamilton (Irish mathematician (1806-1865))

Hero; Hero of Alexandria; Heron (Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century))

David Hilbert; Hilbert (German mathematician (1862-1943))

Hipparchus (Greek astronomer and mathematician who discovered the precession of the equinoxes and made the first known star chart and is said to have invented trigonometry (second century BC))

Jacobi; Karl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (German mathematician (1804-1851))

Felix Klein; Klein (German mathematician who created the Klein bottle (1849-1925))

Derivation:

mathematics (a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement)

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