mathematician
noun
math·e·ma·ti·cian
ˌmath-mə-ˈti-shən 
ˌma-thə-
: a specialist or expert in mathematics
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The name was an accidental misspelling of googol, a term coined by a mathematician’s young son to describe a 1 with 100 zeros after it.
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ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025
If Tait missed something, so did every mathematician who followed him.
—Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 22 Sep. 2025
Pythagoras, like mathematicians before him, just started with a² + b² = c², which has 3, 4, and 5 as the only set of consecutive numbers that solve it.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 18 Sep. 2025
While many sad-eyed movers have probably thought about this over the years, the question was first posed formally in 1966 by mathematician Leo Moser.
—Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 17 Sep. 2025
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ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025
If Tait missed something, so did every mathematician who followed him.
—Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 22 Sep. 2025
Pythagoras, like mathematicians before him, just started with a² + b² = c², which has 3, 4, and 5 as the only set of consecutive numbers that solve it.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 18 Sep. 2025
While many sad-eyed movers have probably thought about this over the years, the question was first posed formally in 1966 by mathematician Leo Moser.
—Tom Hawking, Popular Science, 17 Sep. 2025
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“Mathematician.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mathematician. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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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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