mathematician
noun
math·e·ma·ti·cian
ˌmath-mə-ˈti-shən 
ˌma-thə-
: a specialist or expert in mathematics
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But what exactly is the algorithm — and what have ancient Babylon and Greek mathematicians got to do with it?
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Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 23 Apr. 2024
The counterexamples show that four-dimensional manifolds are even more remarkably diverse than mathematicians in earlier decades had realized.
—Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 22 Apr. 2024
The 2024 Abel Prize, the world’s top award in mathematics, was given to French mathematician Michel Talagrand last month for his advances in stochastic systems, which help model random variables more precisely.
—Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Apr. 2024
Huang introduces the crowd to the next-generation Blackwell chip, named after mathematician David Blackwell, who is also the first Black scholar inducted into the National Academy of Science.
—Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 18 Mar. 2024
After all, Russell Crowe plays Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash in the 2001 film, A Beautiful Mind, but nobody would claim that the better his acting performance, the more impressive his mathematical skills must be.
—Will Henshall, TIME, 19 Jan. 2024
The mathematician, now 72 years old, has followed a similar approach to his own life.
—Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024
The first calculation of pi was done by Archimedes, a legendary mathematician of the ancient world, in the centuries leading up to the common era.
—Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 14 Mar. 2024
Math jokes for National Pi Day 2024 Some good math jokes for Pi Day include:
Q: What is a mathematician's favorite snake?
—Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 12 Mar. 2024
Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 23 Apr. 2024
The counterexamples show that four-dimensional manifolds are even more remarkably diverse than mathematicians in earlier decades had realized.
—Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 22 Apr. 2024
The 2024 Abel Prize, the world’s top award in mathematics, was given to French mathematician Michel Talagrand last month for his advances in stochastic systems, which help model random variables more precisely.
—Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Apr. 2024
Huang introduces the crowd to the next-generation Blackwell chip, named after mathematician David Blackwell, who is also the first Black scholar inducted into the National Academy of Science.
—Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 18 Mar. 2024
After all, Russell Crowe plays Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash in the 2001 film, A Beautiful Mind, but nobody would claim that the better his acting performance, the more impressive his mathematical skills must be.
—Will Henshall, TIME, 19 Jan. 2024
The mathematician, now 72 years old, has followed a similar approach to his own life.
—Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024
The first calculation of pi was done by Archimedes, a legendary mathematician of the ancient world, in the centuries leading up to the common era.
—Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 14 Mar. 2024
Math jokes for National Pi Day 2024 Some good math jokes for Pi Day include:
Q: What is a mathematician's favorite snake?
—Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 12 Mar. 2024
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mathematician
noun
math·e·ma·ti·cian
ˌmath-(ə-)mə-ˈtish-ən
: a specialist or expert in mathematics
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