Mathematician

//ˌmæθ.(ə.)məˈtɪʃ.ən//

"Mathematician" in a Sentence (12 examples)

Young as he is, he is as great a mathematician as ever lived.

J. Kepler, astronomer and mathematician, made a study of planets and their movements.

A mathematician is a man who not only understands the idea put forth before him, but who sees as well the error in its foundations.

If you ask a mathematician if he is an adult or a minor, don't be surprised if he answers "yes".

You're not a serious mathematician unless you crumple up a piece of paper in frustration every twenty minutes, look off into space, and appear to be questioning your very existence.

He is not the best mathematician in all Germany, but in the whole world.

David Hilbert is a German mathematician.

To a mathematician, "almost all" means "all but finitely many."

Archimedes was a great mathematician.

Melanie wants to be a mathematician.

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I suspect that in their hearts most working mathematicians are Platonists, in that they take it as a matter of unassailable if unprovable fact that mathematical reality stands apart from the world, and is at least as real as the world, and possibly gives shape to the world, as Plato suggested. Most mathematicians would probably agree that the ratio of the circle to its diameter exists brilliantly in the nature beyond nature, and would exist even if the human mind was not aware of it, and might exist even if God had not bothered to create it.

The true work of the mathematician is not experienced until the later parts of graduate school, when the student is challenged to create knowledge in the form of a novel proof.

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