mathematician
noun
math·e·ma·ti·cian ˌmath-mə-ˈti-shən 
ˌma-thə-
: a specialist or expert in mathematics
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Munger borrowed this idea from the 1800s German mathematician Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi. 
Bill Stone, Forbes, 1 May 2022 During the 2018 World Cup, a mathematician at Cardiff University in the UK calculated a fan would need to buy 4,832 stickers on average to complete the album, which would set the collector back £774. Augusta Saraiva, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2022 This puzzle was invented by the Russian mathematician Konstantin Knop, a world authority on coin-weighing puzzles. Katie Mccormick, Quanta Magazine, 1 Aug. 2022 In 1973, the legendary mathematician Paul Erdős posed a similar one. Quanta Magazine, 14 July 2022 Centuries after Diophantus’s death, the grammarian Metrodorus wrote an epitaph that both described the mathematician’s life and revealed his age—evidently a long-standing mystery. Richard Malena, Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2022 Others, such as Michael Harris, a mathematician at Columbia, are ambivalent. John Horgan, Scientific American, 7 July 2022 Before the awards ceremony, Viazovska dedicated one of her lectures to a Ukrainian mathematician and computer scientist, Yulia Zdanovska, who was recently killed in a Russian missile attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Amanda Taheri, PEOPLE.com, 6 July 2022 The Turing Test was first proposed by esteemed British mathematician and computing pioneer Alan Turing in 1950. Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 14 June 2022 See More
Bill Stone, Forbes, 1 May 2022 During the 2018 World Cup, a mathematician at Cardiff University in the UK calculated a fan would need to buy 4,832 stickers on average to complete the album, which would set the collector back £774. Augusta Saraiva, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2022 This puzzle was invented by the Russian mathematician Konstantin Knop, a world authority on coin-weighing puzzles. Katie Mccormick, Quanta Magazine, 1 Aug. 2022 In 1973, the legendary mathematician Paul Erdős posed a similar one. Quanta Magazine, 14 July 2022 Centuries after Diophantus’s death, the grammarian Metrodorus wrote an epitaph that both described the mathematician’s life and revealed his age—evidently a long-standing mystery. Richard Malena, Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2022 Others, such as Michael Harris, a mathematician at Columbia, are ambivalent. John Horgan, Scientific American, 7 July 2022 Before the awards ceremony, Viazovska dedicated one of her lectures to a Ukrainian mathematician and computer scientist, Yulia Zdanovska, who was recently killed in a Russian missile attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Amanda Taheri, PEOPLE.com, 6 July 2022 The Turing Test was first proposed by esteemed British mathematician and computing pioneer Alan Turing in 1950. Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 14 June 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
15th century, in the meaning defined above
Kids Definition
mathematician
noun
math·e·ma·ti·cian ˌma-thə-mə-ˈti-shən
: a specialist in mathematics
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