单词 | mathematician |
释义 | mathematiciann. 1. A person who is skilled in mathematics; an expert in or student of mathematics. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [noun] > knowledge of > one who has mathematician?a1475 mathematical1545 mathematic1547 algebrician1579 computist1595 algebraist1614 philomathematic1621 Archimedesa1649 algorist1656 analyst1656 fluxionist1734 calculist1829 metamathematician1935 numerical analyst1956 ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1872) IV. 469 (MED) Puttenge in to exile mony mathematicions [L. mathematicos] and philosophres. 1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. *iij The Rule of False positions..by two excellent Mathematiciens..enlarged. 1598 R. Barckley Disc. Felicitie of Man v. 358 The globe of the earth..is after the Mathematicians computation, one and twentie thousand miles in compasse and aboue. 1661 S. Pepys Diary 23 May (1970) II. 105 The Mathematician..did by discourse make us fully believe that England and France were once the same continent. 1687 N. Luttrell Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 396 Sir Samuel Morland, the mathematician, is lately married. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. iii. 64 His Majesty's Mathematicians, having taken the Height of my Body..they concluded..that mine must contain at least 1,724 of theirs. 1764 J. Boswell Let. 23 July in Boswell on Grand Tour (1953) I. 36 Then, Sir, she is a metaphysician and a mathematician too. 1803 Imison's Elements Sci. & Art (new ed.) I. 261 It [sc. the pump] was first invented by Ctesibius, a mathematician of Alexandria, about 120 years b.c. 1885 Manch. Examiner 16 Mar. 5/2 A power of analysis equal to that which would equip a mathematician. 1931 H. S. Williams Bk. Marvels 85 It has been kept busy..doing single-handed the work of sixty human mathematicians. 1992 L. Tuttle Lost Futures 92 The multiworld theory is one physicists and mathematicians have to take very seriously. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > astrology > [noun] > astrologer astronomienc1330 astrologianc1400 astrologue1487 calker1535 mathematical1545 mathematiciana1576 mathematist1579 astrologer1581 artist1584 mathematicc1604 astrologomage1635 astrologist1683 a1576 L. Nowell Vocabularium Saxonicum (1952) 168/2 Tunȝlere, a mathematicion; mathematicus. 1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum viii. iii. f. 122/2 Some of the Mathematicians, omit the burning heauen, and adde the tenth, which they call Primum mobile. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Mathematicien, a Mathematician;..a caster of Natiuities. 1626 J. Horsey Trav. in S. Purchas Pilgrimage (ed. 4) 977 He enquired of Elizius Bomelius Doctor of Physicke, a rare Mathematician or Magician, and of others of Queene Elizabeths yeeres. 1701 N. Grew Cosmol. Sacra v. iv. §42 Mathematicians, among the Romans, were for some time, specially meant of Astrologers or Star-Prophets. 1710 Ld. Shaftesbury Soliloquy 131 Astrologers, Horoscopers, and other such, are pleas'd to honour themselves with the Title of Mathematicians. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1475 |
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