Definition of Mathematician

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Definition of Mathematician
	Mathematician One versed in mathematics. Related Definitions: In, Mathematics, One, Versed

Mathematician Quotations

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Plato

No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.
Jacques Derrida

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
Paul Erdos

The mathematician has reached the highest rung on the ladder of human thought.
Henry Ellis

No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.
Henri Poincare

A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.
Henri Poincare

I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.
Carl Friedrich Gauss

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.
Clifford Geertz

The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.
Edsger Dijkstra

Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about.
E. T. Bell

Mathematician Translations

mathematician in Dutch is mathematicus, wiskundige
mathematician in German is Mathematiker
mathematician in Swedish is matematiker

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