How to Use mathematician in a Sentence

mathematician

noun
  • And no one calls for a mathematician’s head when a play goes awry.
    John Romano, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2025
  • But most of the time is not all the time, and that’s the kind of caveat that makes mathematicians itch.
    Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 20 Jan. 2026
  • There are a lot of ex-mathematicians and ex-physicists in the field now.
    Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
  • But still, even mathematicians need to have a bit of fun sometimes.
    Michael Irving, New Atlas, 31 Oct. 2024
  • For decades, a math puzzle has stumped the smartest mathematicians in the world.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 9 Sep. 2019
  • Drawn by word of mouth, more and more mathematicians joined the effort.
    Quanta Magazine, 8 June 2026
  • Over the past few centuries, mathematicians have sought to close those gaps.
    Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The mathematician pedaled away from the bunch, right at the start.
    Jason Gay, WSJ, 25 July 2021
  • Like mathematicians, artists of any kind thrill to work with structures.
    Rebecca Coffey, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • To watch Shooni prepare for a shot is to watch a mathematician at work.
    BostonGlobe.com, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Like mathematicians, physicists are known to cling to their chalk.
    Staff, Quartz, 4 Sep. 2024
  • It should be noted that Laufer trained as a mathematician, not a chemist.
    Jorge Just, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
  • What would be left for human mathematicians to do?
    Quanta Magazine, 10 Nov. 2025
  • At first, mathematicians were loath to follow his lead.
    Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 26 June 2026
  • Don’t worry, ride-share drivers and mathematicians, your jobs are safe for now.
    Solo Ceesay, Rolling Stone, 7 May 2026
  • The proof came as a surprise to mathematicians.
    Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 21 Nov. 2025
  • And mathematicians have yet to prove that π + e is irrational.
    Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 18 Dec. 2025
  • By that point, Tao was one of the most famous mathematicians not only in his field but in the world.
    Quanta Magazine, 8 June 2026
  • Things come to a head in the days leading up to the mathematician’s funeral.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Isabella is a writer and a mathematician and an artist and why not?
    Allegra Goodman, New Yorker, 4 Jan. 2026
  • But most mathematicians found Riemann’s ideas too vague and abstract to be of much use.
    Quanta Magazine, 3 Nov. 2025
  • But some mathematicians wanted to push these ideas even further.
    Quanta Magazine, 3 Nov. 2025
  • But mathematicians want to know exactly how well Gauss’s guess holds up—and why.
    Byzack Savitsky, science.org, 29 July 2024
  • The process reminded me of the way that mathematicians talk about their research.
    Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2023
  • But all these surfaces are what mathematicians call non-compact.
    Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 20 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • But most mathematicians at the time believed that no number of smooth curves could ever add up to a sharp corner.
    Shalma Wegsman, Quanta Magazine, 3 Sep. 2025
  • At the time, the idea that AI could replace mathematicians seemed far-fetched.
    Benjamin Skuse, IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2026
  • At first, the three mathematicians had to settle for a partial result.
    Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Each week, a different mathematician digs into some aspect of the proof and presents it to the rest of the group.
    Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 12 Dec. 2025

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