α. 1500s– algebrician.
β. 1800s– algebraician.
algebriciann.
/ˌaldʒᵻˈbrɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌældʒəˈbrɪʃ(ə)n/ Now rare.
= algebraist n.
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mathematician?a1475
mathematical1545
mathematic1547
algebrician1579
computist1595
algebraist1614
philomathematic1621
Archimedesa1649
algorist1656
analyst1656
fluxionist1734
calculist1829
metamathematician1935
numerical analyst1956
1579 L. Digges & T. Digges Stratioticos 48 One Prime, or one Roote as commonlye Algebricians tearme it.
1662 T. Hobbes Mr Hobbes Considered 51 You Algebricians, and Non-conformists do but fain it to comfort one another.
1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 343 The Greek Algebrician Monk, Barlaamus's, of the same 14th Century, Logistica was not printed till 1572. at Strasburg.
1744 Wks. R. Boyle III. 158/2 I remember not to have found this method fully handled in any one author, even among the modern algebricians.
1887 Mechanics 15 Jan. 282/3 As what Mr. H. S. Brown would call ‘an algebra-ician’, would say, there are two unknown quantities and only one equation.
1926 Math. Teacher 19 172 I cannot but believe that they..will make better algebricians.
1994 W. Marciszewski Logic from Rhetorical Point of View iii. 40 The intention of 19th century algebraicians was merely to improve traditional logic from the mathematical point of view.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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