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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 more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.
Jules H. Poincare

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

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

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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