mathematician
noun
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Definition of mathematician
: a specialist or expert in mathematics
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The bureau also projects job increases of 27.4%, 29.7% and 33.8% over the same time period for operation-research analysts, mathematicians and statisticians, respectively, or any jobs involving an element of big data. — Andrew J. Campa, Burbank Leader, "Woodbury University to debut major in data analytics curriculum next year," 3 Sep. 2019 These workers include positions such as software developers, web developers, mathematicians and computer network architects. — Brittany Meiling, San Diego Union-Tribune, "Is your paycheck keeping up with San Diego鈥檚 inflation?," 2 Sep. 2019 What kinds of questions do mathematicians try to answer about dynamical systems? — Quanta Magazine, "A Mathematician Whose Only Constant Is Change," 27 Aug. 2019 Peter and his parents and his older brother Victor emigrated to America in 1951, settling in Rochester, N.Y. Alex, a mathematician and engineer, encouraged both his sons to develop their creative talents. — sun-sentinel.com, "Deaths in South Florida: 8/23," 23 Aug. 2019 In 1967, Perec became a member of the Oulipo group of mathematicians and writers, and began experimenting more explicitly with constraints on composition. — Paul Grimstad, The New Yorker, "The Absolute Originality of Georges Perec," 16 July 2019 But in the 16th century, German mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus upended that theory by providing strong evidence that Earth and the other planets travel around the sun. — National Geographic, "The solar system, explained," 27 Mar. 2019 Factoring large numbers is hard for a classical computer, but would be easier for a quantum computer, as Peter Shor, a mathematician at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, showed in 1994. — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, "Cryptographers scramble to protect the internet from hackers with quantum computers," 21 Aug. 2019 Now Hao Huang, a mathematician at Emory University, has proved the sensitivity conjecture with an ingenious but elementary two-page argument about the combinatorics of points on cubes. — Quanta Magazine, "Decades-Old Computer Science Conjecture Solved in Two Pages," 25 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'mathematician.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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mathematician
noun
English Language Learners Definition of mathematician
: a person who is an expert in mathematics
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mathematician
noun
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Kids Definition of mathematician
: a specialist in mathematics
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