number theoristn.
/ˈnʌmbə ˌθɪərɪst/, U.S. /ˈnəmbər ˌθiərᵻst/, /ˈnəmbər ˌθɪrᵻst/ A person who studies mathematical number theory.
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infinitesimalist1863
momentarian1863
number theorist1912
formalist1913
frequentist1949
game theorist1950
finitist1960
constructivist1979
chaologist1987
1912 Philos. Rev. 21 22 The new number-theorists have..somewhat naïvely supposed that they have rendered the notion [of the infinite number] ‘harmless’ by merely explicitly incorporating the contradiction into the definition itself!
1929 Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 35 779 There is no number-theorist who has not heard of ‘Farey's series’.
1971 Sci. Amer. June 56/2 The pattern of occurrence of Mersenne numbers, Mersenne primes and perfect numbers continues to mystify number theorists.
1995 New Scientist 4 Mar. 46/1 As the great Cambridge number theorist G. H. Hardy discovered in 1913, not all amateur mathematicians are yo-yos.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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