Other forms: mathematicians
A mathematician is somebody who works in the study of numbers. A pure mathematician.
Most of the work is proof rather than calculation, which surprises people who met the subject only at school. A mathematician who says a proof is beautiful means it is short and surprising.
1nounmathematicianSomebody who works in the study of numbers.
“The mathematician spent four years on one proof and got it.”
mathematician is a person.
Greek mathematikos comes from mathema, something learnt, from manthanein, to learn.
Ancient Greek
μαθηματικός — fond of learning
Latin
mathēmatica
Middle French
mathematicien
Middle English
mathematicion
English, today
mathematician
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From Middle English mathematicion, from Middle French mathematicien, from mathematique (“mathematics”) (from Latin mathēmatica, feminine of mathēmaticus, from Ancient Greek μαθηματικός (“fond of learning”), from μάθημα (“knowledge, learning”) + -ικός) + Middle French -ien (from Latin -iānus). Displaced native rīmcræftiga. by surface analysis, mathematic + -ian.
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