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mathematician|ˌmæθɪməˈtɪʃən|
Forms: 5 -icion, 6 -icien, matimatician, 6– mathematician.
[ad. F. mathématicien, f. L. mathēmaticus, mathēmatica mathematic n. 1 and 2: see -ian.]
One who is skilled or learned in mathematics.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) IV. 469 Puttenge in to exile mony mathematicions [1387 Trevisa mathematicos] and philosophres. 1570Dee Math. Pref. *iij, The Rule of False positions..by two excellent Mathematiciens..enlarged. 1598R. Barckley Felic. Man (1631) 370 The Globe of the earth..is after the Mathematicians computation one and twentie thousand miles in compasse and above. 1687Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) I. 396 Sir Samuel Morland, the mathematician, is lately married. 1803J. Imison Sci. & Art I. 261 It [the pump] was first invented by Ctesibius, a mathematician of Alexandria, about 120 years b.c. 1821J. Q. Adams in C. Davies Metr. Syst. iii. (1871) 139 A committee..consisting of five of the ablest members of the academy and most eminent mathematicians of Europe.
†b. An astrologer. Chiefly Hist. as rendering of L. mathēmaticus. Obs.
1589Rider Bibl. Schol., A Mathematician... 2. Chaldæus. 1591Horsey Trav. (Hakl. Soc.) 173 He..was verie inquisitive with one Elizious Bomelius..Doctor of phizicke in England, a rare matimatician ‘magicion’,..what years Quen Elizabeth was of. 1611Cotgr., Mathematicien, a Mathematician;..a caster of Natiuities. 1701Grew Cosm. Sacra v. iv. 327 Mathematicians, among the Romans, were for some time, specially meant of Astrologers, or Star-Prophets. 1710Shaftesbury Charac., Adv. Auth. iii. i. (1711) I. 289 Astrologers, Horoscopers, and other such are pleas'd to honour themselves with the Title of Mathematicians. |