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mathematician

Noun

A person skilled in mathematics (synset 110320928)
referred to in: math, mathematics, maths - a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement

is a type of: scientist - a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences
subtypes:
- algebraist - a mathematician whose specialty is algebra
- arithmetician - someone who specializes in arithmetic
- geometer, geometrician - a mathematician specializing in geometry
- number theorist - a mathematician specializing in number theory
- probability theorist - a mathematician who specializes in probability theory
- mathematical statistician, statistician - a mathematician who specializes in statistics
- trigonometrician - a mathematician specializing in trigonometry
specific instances:
- abel, niels abel, niels henrik abel - Norwegian mathematician (1802-1829)
- al-hasan ibn al-haytham, al-haytham, alhacen, alhazen, ibn al-haytham - an Egyptian polymath (born in Iraq) whose research in geometry and optics was influential into the 17th century; established experiments as the norm of proof in physics (died in 1040)
- archimedes - Greek mathematician and physicist noted for his work in hydrostatics and mechanics and geometry (287-212 BC)
- bayes, thomas bayes - English mathematician for whom Bayes' theorem is named (1702-1761)
- bernoulli, jacques bernoulli, jakob bernoulli, james bernoulli - Swiss mathematician (1654-1705)
- bernoulli, jean bernoulli, johann bernoulli, john bernoulli - Swiss mathematician (1667-1748)
- bessel, friedrich wilhelm bessel - German mathematician and astronomer who made accurate measurements of stellar distances and who predicted the existence on an 8th planet (1784-1846)
- boole, george boole - English mathematician; creator of Boolean algebra (1815-1864)
- bowditch, nathaniel bowditch - United States mathematician and astronomer noted for his works on navigation (1773-1838)
- condorcet, marie jean antoine nicolas caritat, marquis de condorcet - French mathematician and philosopher (1743-1794)
- descartes, rene descartes - French philosopher and mathematician; developed dualistic theory of mind and matter; introduced the use of coordinates to locate a point in two or three dimensions (1596-1650)
- diophantus - Greek mathematician who was the first to try to develop an algebraic notation (3rd century)
- eratosthenes - Greek mathematician and astronomer who estimated the circumference of the earth and the distances to the Moon and sun (276-194 BC)
- euler, leonhard euler - Swiss mathematician (1707-1783)
- fermat, pierre de fermat - French mathematician who founded number theory; contributed (with Pascal) to the theory of probability (1601-1665)
- baron jean baptiste joseph fourier, fourier, jean baptiste joseph fourier - French mathematician who developed Fourier analysis and studied the conduction of heat (1768-1830)
- evariste galois, galois - French mathematician who described the conditions for solving polynomial equations; was killed in a duel at the age of 21 (1811-1832)
- gauss, karl friedrich gauss, karl gauss - German mathematician who developed the theory of numbers and who applied mathematics to electricity and magnetism and astronomy and geodesy (1777-1855)
- godel, kurt godel - United States mathematician (born in Austria) who is remembered principally for demonstrating the limitations of axiomatic systems (1906-1978)
- hamilton, sir william rowan hamilton, william rowan hamilton - Irish mathematician (1806-1865)
- hero, hero of alexandria, heron - Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century)
- david hilbert, hilbert - German mathematician (1862-1943)
- hipparchus - Greek astronomer and mathematician who discovered the precession of the equinoxes and made the first known star chart and is said to have invented trigonometry (second century BC)
- jacobi, karl gustav jacob jacobi - German mathematician (1804-1851)
- felix klein, klein - German mathematician who created the Klein bottle (1849-1925)
- kronecker, leopold kronecker - German mathematician (1823-1891)
- laplace, marquis de laplace, pierre simon de laplace - French mathematician and astronomer who formulated the nebular hypothesis concerning the origins of the solar system and who developed the theory of probability (1749-1827)
- gottfried wilhelm leibnitz, gottfried wilhelm leibniz, leibnitz, leibniz - German philosopher and mathematician who thought of the universe as consisting of independent monads and who devised a system of the calculus independent of Newton (1646-1716)
- lobachevsky, nikolai ivanovich lobachevsky - Russian mathematician who independently discovered non-Euclidean geometry (1792-1856)
- benoit mandelbrot, mandelbrot - French mathematician (born in Poland) noted for inventing fractals (born in 1924)
- andre markoff, andrei markov, markoff, markov - Russian mathematician (1856-1922)
- hermann minkowski, minkowski - German mathematician (born in Russia) who suggested the concept of four-dimensional space-time (1864-1909)
- august f. mobius, august ferdinand mobius, mobius - German mathematician responsible for the Mobius strip (1790-1868)
- johann muller, muller, regiomontanus - German mathematician and astronomer (1436-1476)
- john napier, napier - Scottish mathematician who invented logarithms; introduced the use of the decimal point in writing numbers (1550-1617)
- isaac newton, newton, sir isaac newton - English mathematician and physicist; remembered for developing the calculus and for his law of gravitation and his three laws of motion (1642-1727)
- emmy noether, noether - German mathematician (1882-1935)
- omar khayyam - Persian poet and mathematician and astronomer whose poetry was popularized by Edward Fitzgerald's translation (1050-1123)
- blaise pascal, pascal - French mathematician and philosopher and Jansenist; invented an adding machine; contributed (with Fermat) to the theory of probability (1623-1662)
- benjamin peirce, peirce - United States mathematician and astronomer remembered for his studies of Uranus and Saturn and Neptune (1809-1880)
- pythagoras - Greek philosopher and mathematician who proved the Pythagorean theorem; considered to be the first true mathematician (circa 580-500 BC)
- bernhard riemann, georg friedrich bernhard riemann, riemann - pioneer of non-Euclidean geometry (1826-1866)
- alan mathison turing, alan turing, turing - English mathematician who conceived of the Turing machine and broke German codes during World War II (1912-1954)
- oswald veblen, veblen - United States mathematician (1880-1960)
- paul vernier, vernier - French mathematician who described the vernier scale (1580-1637)
- john von neumann, neumann, von neumann - United States mathematician who contributed to the development of atom bombs and of stored-program digital computers (1903-1957)
- andre weil, weil - United States mathematician (born in France) (1906-1998)
- alfred north whitehead, whitehead - English philosopher and mathematician who collaborated with Bertrand Russell (1861-1947)
- norbert wiener, wiener - United States mathematician and founder of cybernetics (1894-1964)

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