English > mathematician: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | A person skilled in mathematics. |
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| Category | mathematics, math, maths | A science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic / logic of quantity and shape and arrangement |
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| Instances | Abel, Niels Abel, Niels Henrik Abel | Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829) |
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| Alhazen, Alhacen, al-Haytham, Ibn al-Haytham, Al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham | An Egyptian polymath (born in Iraq) whose research in geometry and optics was influential into the 17th century |
| 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, Jakob Bernoulli, Jacques Bernoulli, James Bernoulli | Swiss mathematician (1654-1705) |
| Bernoulli, Johann Bernoulli, Jean 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 |
| Bowditch, Nathaniel Bowditch | United States mathematician and astronomer noted for his works on navigation (1773-1838) |
| Condorcet, Marquis de Condorcet, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat | French mathematician and philosopher (1743-1794) |
| Descartes, Rene Descartes | French philosopher and mathematician |
| 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 |
| Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, Baron Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier | French mathematician who developed Fourier analysis and studied the conduction of heat / heat (1768-1830) |
| Galois, Evariste Galois | French mathematician who described the conditions for solving polynomial equations |
| Gauss, Karl Gauss, Karl Friedrich 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, William Rowan Hamilton, Sir William Rowan Hamilton | Irish mathematician (1806-1865) |
| Hero, Heron, Hero of Alexandria | Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century) |
| Hilbert, David 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) |
| Klein, Felix Klein | German mathematician who created the Klein bottle (1849-1925) |
| Kronecker, Leopold Kronecker | German mathematician (1823-1891) |
| 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) |
| Leibniz, Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz | 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) |
| Lobachevsky, Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky | Russian mathematician who independently discovered non-Euclidean geometry (1792-1856) |
| Mandelbrot, Benoit Mandelbrot | French mathematician (born in Poland) noted for inventing fractals (born in 1924) |
| Markov, Andrei Markov, Markoff, Andre Markoff | Russian mathematician (1856-1922) |
| Minkowski, Hermann Minkowski | German mathematician (born in Russia) who suggested the concept of four-dimensional space-time (1864-1909) |
| Mobius, August F. Mobius, August Ferdinand Mobius | German mathematician responsible for the Mobius strip (1790-1868) |
| Muller, Johann Muller, Regiomontanus | German mathematician and astronomer (1436-1476) |
| Napier, John Napier | Scottish mathematician who invented logarithms |
| Newton, Isaac Newton, Sir Isaac Newton | English mathematician and physicist |
| Noether, Emmy Noether | German mathematician (1882-1935) |
| Omar Khayyam | Persian poet and mathematician and astronomer whose poetry was popularized by Edward Fitzgerald's translation (1050-1123) |
| Pascal, Blaise Pascal | French mathematician and philosopher and Jansenist |
| Peirce, Benjamin Peirce | United States mathematician and astronomer remembered for his studies / studies of Uranus and Saturn and Neptune (1809-1880) |
| Pythagoras | Greek philosopher and mathematician who proved the Pythagorean theorem |
| Riemann, Bernhard Riemann, Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann | pioneer of non-Euclidean geometry (1826-1866) |
| Turing, Alan Turing, Alan Mathison Turing | English mathematician who conceived of the Turing machine and broke German codes during World War II (1912-1954) |
| Veblen, Oswald Veblen | United States mathematician (1880-1960) |
| Vernier, Paul Vernier | French mathematician who described the vernier scale (1580-1637) |
| Weil, Andre Weil | United States mathematician (born in France) (1906-1998) |
| Whitehead, Alfred North Whitehead | English philosopher and mathematician who collaborated with Bertrand Russell (1861-1947) |
| Wiener, Norbert Wiener | United States mathematician and founder of cybernetics (1894-1964) |
| von Neumann, Neumann, John von Neumann | United States mathematician who contributed to the development of atom bombs and of stored-program digital computers (1903-1957) |
| Narrower | algebraist | A mathematician whose specialty is algebra |
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| 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 |
| statistician, mathematical statistician | A mathematician who specializes in statistics |
| trigonometrician | A mathematician specializing in trigonometry |
| Broader | scientist | A person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences |
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| Spanish | matemática, matemático |
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| Catalan | matemàtic |
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| Nouns | mathematics | a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic / logic of quantity and shape and arrangement |
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