Algorist

In the handling of numbers the dream of the algorist was to free men from a machine.

Navigators, astronomers, scientists, mathematicians, and others who were involved in a great deal of calculating were rather readily converted to the algorist inclination.

The sixteenth-century print at the left shows an abacist competing against an algorist.

On the other hand, at the beginning of the fifteenth century, the competition between the abacist who used an abacus for computation and the algorist who invoked Arabic numerical calculations became quite furious. Eventually, the algorist won acceptance.

As an algorist Ramanujan had few peers in the world of mathematics.

It was in Lyons where Nicholas Chuquet, a master algorist, worked and by 1484 completed a series of manuscripts referred to as the Triparty.

Always the daring algorist, Euler occasionally trusted his formulas too far, and was unperturbed when they propesied material absurdities.

As an algorist Euler has never been surpassed, and probably never even closely approached, unless perhaps by Jacobi.

What we witness in Trevarthan's and Halliday's behavioral and protolinguistic analyses of infant line, is the infant as algorist possessing and deploying a stock of fundamental strategies or modes for selectively operating upon the world.

The first issue is whether or not an agent or algorist is extraneous to a theory that can, in principle or fact, accurately and completely describe both the algorithms (in this case, the rules and procedures specifying how a biological machine detects information) and the data (invariant energy structures) upon which those algorithms operate.