What's the difference between algebraist and logician?

Algebraist


Definition:

  • (n.) One versed in algebra.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) From Excession (1996) to The Hydrogen Sonata (2012), he produced a sequence of seven science-fiction novels, all but one of which, The Algebraist (2004), belonged to the Culture series.

Logician


Definition:

  • (n.) A person skilled in logic.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Speaking from DeepMind’s headquarters near King’s Cross station in London, in a conference room named after pioneering logician Kurt Gödel, Hassabis explained that for his company, winning the match isn’t the most important thing.
  • (2) The Times obituary, which appeared on the same day, noted Turing was a mathematician and logician who had branched into "the design and use of automatic computing machines".
  • (3) The quantitative assessment carried out by 32 psychiatrists on a rating scale for logical thinking disorders (nine items, six points) of the retranscribed clinical interview showed 1. that the assessments varied in a statistically significant way according to items and psychiatrists, and that these variations were independent of their degree of experience--the correlations between the different items of the rating scale proved to be weak and not significantly different from zero; and 2. the study of the most contradictory statements carried out by a logician using reasoning analysis procedures concluded that there were in fact logical relationships between the subjects the schizophrenic talked about.

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