algebraist
Americannoun
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an expert in algebra.
Other Word Forms
- subalgebraist noun
Etymology
Origin of algebraist
Example Sentences
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And that is why the great algebraist, Carl Jacobi, so often said: “invert, always invert.”
From Time • Feb. 23, 2015
Igor Shafarevich, a world-famous algebraist, told Western newsmen that the aim of the essays was to bring about fundamental changes in the U.S.S.R.
From Time Magazine Archive
If it is all his own, he will make a good algebraist in the time to come.
From A Tangled Tale by Frost, A. B. (Arthur Burdett)
Mathematics received an impulse, largely, it is true, from the Arabs of Spain, but also from the East; Leonardo Fibonacci, the first Christian algebraist, had travelled in Syria and Egypt.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various
The arithmetician, the algebraist, and more generally the analyst, in whom invention obtains in the most abstract form of discontinuous functions—symbols and their relations—cannot imagine like the geometrician.
From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Baron, Albert Heyem Nachmen
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