How to Use mathematician in a Sentence

mathematician

noun

• The process reminded me of the way that mathematicians talk about their research.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2023
• The test is named for Alan Turing, the famed British mathematician, philosopher and wartime code breaker who proposed the test back in 1950.
  — Cade Metz, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2023
• The Greek letter π began to be widely used by mathematicians in the 1700s.
  — Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 13 Mar. 2023
• The next mathematician who needed to use moments would have to solve the moment problem all over again.
  — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 12 Jan. 2023
• Bringing a 32-year-long quest to a close, mathematicians have discovered the ninth Dedekind number known as D(9).
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 13 July 2023
• That was case for the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Nov. 2023
• The question was first posed by Leo Moser, a Canadian mathematician, in the early 1960s.
  — Anna Kramer, Quanta Magazine, 19 July 2023
• At one point, the mathematician John von Neumann arrived at the lab bearing a long set of complex problems.
  — David Leonhardt, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• Hastings even fired mathematician Neil Hunt, who was at Netflix from the very start, a close friend and one of the brains behind the company’s algorithms.
  — Peter Biskind, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Nov. 2023
• Greg the engineer, and Bill the mathematician, came across Sallie Mead’s story in 2022.
  — Erica Huang, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
• But no—not good enough for these fancy-pants mathematicians who need their own set of characters just to feel special.
  — Eli Burnstein, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2023
• As a result, mathematicians often turn to the complex numbers, which can be thought of as pairs of real numbers.
  — Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2023
• One of the most notorious puzzles, devised by the mathematician Sir Roger Penrose in 2017, puts stronger black pieces (such as the queen and rooks) on the board, but in awkward positions.
  — Stephen Ornes, WIRED, 18 Feb. 2024
• That could be getting a Black woman mathematician’s papers placed in the Library of Congress.
  — Greg Borowski, Journal Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2023
• In 1973, the legendary mathematician Paul Erdős posed a similar one.
  — Quanta Magazine, 14 July 2022
• That way, our kids could grow up in four dimensions, and become the greatest mathematicians ever.
  — Jaron Lanier, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2024
• In the decades since that seminal idea, mathematicians have racked up a list of even less practical computing schemes.
  — Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024
• Add a line, bisect an angle, draw a circle — this is how mathematicians, student or elite, tinker and try to gain purchase on a problem.
  — Siobhan Roberts, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2024
• But mathematicians keep striving to prove results about how quickly primes even out.
  — Quanta Magazine, 23 Dec. 2023
• In 1988, an American mathematician named Scott Johnson was found dead, at the age of twenty-seven, off a seaside cliff in Australia.
  — The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2023
• Some mathematicians proposed single-shape solutions, but these inevitably required small amendments to the rules of the game.
  — Craig S. Kaplan, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2023
• The idea of what are known as complex numbers — a set of numbers larger than what most people encounter in math class — is even older, although for centuries even mathematicians did not know what to make of them.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• Their technique draws upon the decades-old work of Louis Mordell, an American mathematician who emigrated to Britain in 1906.
  — Quanta Magazine, 22 Nov. 2022
• Charles Hoskinson, a mathematician who made a fortune in cryptocurrency, heard Loeb talking about the meteor on a podcast and pledged $1.5 million for the search.
  — Seth Fletcher, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2023
• For example, the map drafted by the Wright petitioners (a group of mathematicians and social scientists) was designed to put the state Senate in play this fall.
  — Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 21 Feb. 2024
• Back in 1970, the mathematician John Conway created a game with no players that evolves entirely from its initial state.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
• In the process, Kim becomes an anthropologist, an anatomist and a mathematician.
  — Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
• The first proof that many people ever learn, early in high school, is the ancient Greek mathematician Euclid’s proof that there are infinitely many prime numbers.
  — Anna Kramer, Quanta Magazine, 26 Apr. 2023
• Leonardo da Vinci, just to pull one name out of my hat, was not only a famous painter, but also a sculptor, scientist, philosopher, and mathematician.
  — Mike Postalakis, SPIN, 3 Aug. 2022
• In the 1970s, mathematician Roger Penrose discovered that two shapes could form a non-repeating tiling pattern together, prompting hopes that a single shape may be found to do this one day.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024