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

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

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

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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