By the way, a person might also inquire why a boy may be made a mathematician but not Scientific or a natural philosopher.
What can a binomial theorem be, especially one whose author is Newton, the great English mathematician who weighed the worlds?
The mathematician gave me a leery look, picked up in barracks.
This speculation of the public treasury led the eminent mathematician and astronomer, Dr Edmund Halley, to examine the subject.
The most famous of the pupils of this German mathematician was himself in Lisbon during the years of Columbus's sojourn.
Whether the airy phantoms thus brought into being are valued and preserved by the world is an ulterior point of policy which the pregnant mathematician does not need to consider in bringing to light the legitimate burden of his thoughts.
If some one says two and two are five, you are no counter-mathematician when you conscientiously put it down that he said so.
The mathematician develops the import of given ideas; the psychologist investigates their origin and describes their relation to the rest of human experience.
Even the {4} signs and formulas of the mathematician and the chemist are but abbreviated forms of writing--the stenography of those exact sciences.
It tells little save that Lewis Carroll was a clever mathematician and a sympathetic teacher; it shall be my work to present him as he was from a more human point of view.
The picture that this letter gives of the famous writer and learned mathematician obviously rather in terror of some pert young lady fresh from the schoolroom is not without its comic side.
These facts suggested to me that this capacity as a mathematician was the result of slow growth.
Clifford was the well-known brilliantmathematician who died comparatively early.
More sensible and moderate was =Samuel Clarke=, also distinguished as a mathematician of Newton’s school and as a classical philologist.
Horsley, a distinguished mathematician and commentator on the works of Sir Isaac Newton.
Startling indeed it is to the scientist to be told that an artificial dream-world of the mathematician is more real than that he sees with his galvanometers, ultra-microscopes, and spectroscopes.
It is true that the mathematician occupies himself with objects and cognitions only in so far as they can be represented by means of intuition.
Measured by mere difference of force, the brain of the mathematician is to the brain of the ordinary man as the most powerful dynamo to the muscles of an ant.
In short, the world the mathematician deals with is a world that dies and is reborn at every instant--the world which Descartes was thinking of when he spoke of continued creation.
When the mathematician calculates the future state of a system at the end of a time t, there is nothing to prevent him from supposing that the universe vanishes from this moment till that, and suddenly reappears.
No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does.
Observation of the processes of the work of the mathematician is particularly instructive for the psychologist.
The mathematician should not be for the physicist a mere purveyor of formulas; there should be between them a more intimate collaboration.
The mathematician is born, not made, and it seems he is born a geometer or an analyst.
On a little more reflection it was perceived how great a place hypothesis occupies; that the mathematician can not do without it, still less the experimenter.
This book by the greatest mathematician of our time gives weightiest and most charming answer.
To construct it, the German mathematician had to throw overboard, not only Euclid's postulate, but also the first axiom: Only one straight can pass through two points.
Then, indeed, geometry becomes for the modern mathematician a purely rational science.
Every good mathematician ought to be a good chess-player, and inversely; likewise he should be a good computer.
This linear series is to the line of the mathematician what an isolated element was to the point.
He believed that it was envy of Father Borghesi's ingenuity, fame and financial benefit that had caused the anonymous mathematician to publish his letter, for Tovazzi asked "Who would have encountered opposition to such a marvel?
The mathematician who is without value to mathematicians, the thinker who is obscure or meaningless to thinkers, the dramatist who fails to move the pit, may be wise, may be eminent, but as an author he has failed.
Johnson was guilty of a surprising fallacy in saying that a great mathematician might also be a great poet: "Sir, a man can walk east as far as he can walk west.
Sphere and the Cylinder," and who mentions it specially in a letter to his friend Dositheus, a mathematician of some prominence.
It was by means of this relation that the transcendence of e was proved by the French mathematician Hermite, and the transcendence of [pi] by the German Lindemann.
In the Middle Ages the greatest mathematician of Italy, Leonardo Fibonacci, or Leonardo of Pisa (about 1200 A.
Legendre's geometry was the result of the efforts of a great mathematician at syllabus-making, a natural thing in a country that had early broken away from Euclid.
The greatest European mathematician of the Middle Ages was Leonardo of Pisa[21] (ca.
A Greek philosopher and mathematician of the fifth century B.
These people do good to the world, and their labors should always be welcome, for out of the myriad of suggestions that they make a few have value, and these are helpful both to the mathematician and the artisan.
For in reality this definition is a postulate, and it was so considered by the great Italian mathematician Tartaglia (ca.
Why should a great mathematician waste his time upon wires and pulleys and cogs and fill the air with noise and smoke when he could go to the marketplace and buy all the slaves he needed at a very small expense?
As long as he remained in Spain he was only known as a clever mathematician and astronomer, not as an exegete.
A poet using beautiful Hebrew, a profound mathematician and philosopher, Samuel had emigrated to the East on account of the religious coercion exercised by the Almohades.
A French mathematician had proved by figures that a swallow must develop the power of a horse to maintain its rapid flight!
The nightly talk came off as usual; and also as usual the great mathematician was forced to take the leading part, while Blair quizzed, and the ladies, after the fashion of their sex, stimulated the men to range from topic to topic.
Still, every one knew that Ferrier was the finest mathematician of his year, and there was much muttering and whispering in academic corners when he decided at last to go in for medicine.
This famous French philosopher and mathematician (educated in a Jesuit College) established a rigid partition between the psychic activity of man and that of the brute.
The Mathematician will take little less than Demonstration in the most common Discourse, and the Schoolman is as great a Friend to Definitions and Syllogisms.
For want of this, I have seen a Professor of a Liberal Science at a Loss to salute a Lady; and a most excellent Mathematician not able to determine whether he should stand or sit while my Lord drank to him.
It is in this manner that the Mathematician proceeds upon the Propositions which he has once demonstrated; and though the Demonstration may have slipt out of his Memory, he builds upon the Truth, because he knows it was demonstrated.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mathematician" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
