mathematician
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1. a person skilled in mathematics (noun.person)
| hypernym | : | scientist, |
| definition | : | a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | algebraist, |
| definition | : | a mathematician whose specialty is algebra (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | arithmetician, |
| definition | : | someone who specializes in arithmetic (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | number theorist, |
| definition | : | a mathematician specializing in number theory (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | probability theorist, |
| definition | : | a mathematician who specializes in probability theory (noun.person) |
| hyponym | : | trigonometrician, |
| definition | : | a mathematician specializing in trigonometry (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | archimedes, |
| definition | : | Greek mathematician and physicist noted for his work in hydrostatics and mechanics and geometry (287-212 BC) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | bayes, thomas bayes, |
| definition | : | English mathematician for whom Bayes' theorem is named (1702-1761) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | bessel, friedrich wilhelm bessel, |
| definition | : | German mathematician and astronomer who made accurate measurements of stellar distances and who predicted the existence on an 8th planet (1784-1846) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | boole, george boole, |
| definition | : | English mathematician; creator of Boolean algebra (1815-1864) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | bowditch, nathaniel bowditch, |
| definition | : | United States mathematician and astronomer noted for his works on navigation (1773-1838) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | descartes, rene descartes, |
| definition | : | 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) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | diophantus, |
| definition | : | Greek mathematician who was the first to try to develop an algebraic notation (3rd century) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | eratosthenes, |
| definition | : | Greek mathematician and astronomer who estimated the circumference of the earth and the distances to the Moon and sun (276-194 BC) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | euler, leonhard euler, |
| definition | : | Swiss mathematician (1707-1783) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | fermat, pierre de fermat, |
| definition | : | French mathematician who founded number theory; contributed (with Pascal) to the theory of probability (1601-1665) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | evariste galois, galois, |
| definition | : | French mathematician who described the conditions for solving polynomial equations; was killed in a duel at the age of 21 (1811-1832) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | gauss, karl friedrich gauss, karl gauss, |
| definition | : | German mathematician who developed the theory of numbers and who applied mathematics to electricity and magnetism and astronomy and geodesy (1777-1855) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | godel, kurt godel, |
| definition | : | United States mathematician (born in Austria) who is remembered principally for demonstrating the limitations of axiomatic systems (1906-1978) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | hero, hero of alexandria, heron, |
| definition | : | Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | hipparchus, |
| definition | : | 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) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | felix klein, klein, |
| definition | : | German mathematician who created the Klein bottle (1849-1925) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | laplace, marquis de laplace, pierre simon de laplace, |
| definition | : | 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) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | benoit mandelbrot, mandelbrot, |
| definition | : | French mathematician (born in Poland) noted for inventing fractals (born in 1924) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | hermann minkowski, minkowski, |
| definition | : | German mathematician (born in Russia) who suggested the concept of four-dimensional space-time (1864-1909) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | john napier, napier, |
| definition | : | Scottish mathematician who invented logarithms; introduced the use of the decimal point in writing numbers (1550-1617) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | isaac newton, newton, sir isaac newton, |
| definition | : | English mathematician and physicist; remembered for developing the calculus and for his law of gravitation and his three laws of motion (1642-1727) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | emmy noether, noether, |
| definition | : | German mathematician (1882-1935) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | omar khayyam, |
| definition | : | Persian poet and mathematician and astronomer whose poetry was popularized by Edward Fitzgerald's translation (1050-1123) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | blaise pascal, pascal, |
| definition | : | French mathematician and philosopher and Jansenist; invented an adding machine; contributed (with Fermat) to the theory of probability (1623-1662) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | benjamin peirce, peirce, |
| definition | : | United States mathematician and astronomer remembered for his studies of Uranus and Saturn and Neptune (1809-1880) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | pythagoras, |
| definition | : | Greek philosopher and mathematician who proved the Pythagorean theorem; considered to be the first true mathematician (circa 580-500 BC) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | alan mathison turing, alan turing, turing, |
| definition | : | English mathematician who conceived of the Turing machine and broke German codes during World War II (1912-1954) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | oswald veblen, veblen, |
| definition | : | United States mathematician (1880-1960) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | paul vernier, vernier, |
| definition | : | French mathematician who described the vernier scale (1580-1637) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | john von neumann, neumann, von neumann, |
| definition | : | United States mathematician who contributed to the development of atom bombs and of stored-program digital computers (1903-1957) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | andre weil, weil, |
| definition | : | United States mathematician (born in France) (1906-1998) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | alfred north whitehead, whitehead, |
| definition | : | English philosopher and mathematician who collaborated with Bertrand Russell (1861-1947) (noun.person) |
| instance hyponym | : | norbert wiener, wiener, |
| definition | : | United States mathematician and founder of cybernetics (1894-1964) (noun.person) |
| domain category | : | math, mathematics, maths, |
| definition | : | a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement (noun.cognition) |
| derivation | : | math, mathematics, maths, |
| definition | : | a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement (noun.cognition) |
| derivation | : | math, mathematics, maths, |
| definition | : | a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement (noun.cognition) |
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