mathematician
noun
math·e·ma·ti·cian
ˌmath-mə-ˈti-shən 
ˌma-thə-
: a specialist or expert in mathematics
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Born in Taiwan, Su immigrated to the U.S. with her parents at age 3 so her father, a mathematician, could attend graduate school in New York.
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Morgan Smith, CNBC, 14 Dec. 2024
Claude Shannon, an American mathematician, was working to encrypt communication channels, including the one that connected Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill.
—Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2024
Marić was an accomplished mathematician and physicist herself, and first met Einstein while the only woman in their six person university cohort at Zurich Polytechnic.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 4 Dec. 2024
Eventually, the linguistic evidence was strong enough to issue a search warrant for the home of a reclusive mathematician named Theodore Kaczynski, raised in Chicago but living in rural Montana, where investigators found copies of the manifesto and homemade bombs.
—Julia Webster Ayuso, The Dial, 21 Nov. 2024
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Morgan Smith, CNBC, 14 Dec. 2024
Claude Shannon, an American mathematician, was working to encrypt communication channels, including the one that connected Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill.
—Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2024
Marić was an accomplished mathematician and physicist herself, and first met Einstein while the only woman in their six person university cohort at Zurich Polytechnic.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 4 Dec. 2024
Eventually, the linguistic evidence was strong enough to issue a search warrant for the home of a reclusive mathematician named Theodore Kaczynski, raised in Chicago but living in rural Montana, where investigators found copies of the manifesto and homemade bombs.
—Julia Webster Ayuso, The Dial, 21 Nov. 2024
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mathematician
noun
math·e·ma·ti·cian
ˌmath-(ə-)mə-ˈtish-ən
: a specialist or expert in mathematics
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