(n.) One skilled in geometry; a geometrician; a mathematician.
(n.) Any species of geometrid moth; a geometrid.
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Mathematician
Definition:
(n.) One versed in mathematics.
Example Sentences:
(1) The idea that 80% of an engineer's time is spent on the day job and 20% pursuing a personal project is a mathematician's solution to innovation, Brin says.
(2) That will offer insufficient challenge for capable mathematicians and fail to provide an adequate platform for further study.
(3) Cheers Phil Climate Audit is the web site run by Steve McIntyre, a Canadian mathematician peppering Jones with requests for his data.
(4) It began with a frustrated blogpost by a distinguished mathematician.
(5) His parents were mathematicians and worked on Manchester University's Mark I, one of the earliest computers.
(6) Dominic Cummings' high-octane thesis breathlessly takes in Thucydides and Dostoevsky, evolutionary biology and the writings of modern mathematicians, as it argues – almost in passing – that billions of pounds are being wasted in schools and higher education in a world where ministers are barely in control.
(7) With his schoolboyish, ginger hair and glasses, he looks just how you might expect a mathematician to look - in fact, he is a juggler, too.
(8) These data analysts are often physicists or mathematicians, whose skills are not developed for the study of society at all.
(9) Mathematicians are concerned that current A-level questions are overly structured and encourage a formulaic approach, instead of using more open-ended questions that require advanced problem-solving."
(10) Photograph: Science and Society Picture Library The most prolific mathematician of all time, publishing close to 900 books.
(11) "It is unreasonable that mathematicians should be so successful in this," Wright said.
(12) You don't have to be much of a mathematician to see the attraction of those figures: 70% of $2.99 is $2.09; 10% of a paperback priced at $9.99 is 99 cents.
(13) After fighting hard for farmers’ rights in EU negotiations, mathematician and former agriculture minister Laimdota Straujuma became the first female prime minister in January 2014.
(14) It may be conceded to the mathematicians that four is twice two.
(15) McIntyre clearly doubted the statistical techniques being employed by the climatologists, and felt that, as a trained mathematician, he could do better despite his ignorance of climate science.
(16) By then, he had been spotted by a college contemporary, Howard Smith , a mathematician with whom Briggs played chess, who was to become head of MI5 in the 1970s.
(17) Staying power 'My job is vital … and I love the mental stimulation I get' David Shrubbs, 71, a teacher at Bishop Vesey's Grammar School, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, said: "I've been teaching maths for 49 years and regard my job as vital for this country, as it's lacking in mathematicians."
(18) This is the nub of what I am going to call, because I've always secretly wanted to be a mathematician, the "Birmingham Liberty Paradox".
(19) The point we should derive from Snowden’s revelations – a point originally expressed in March 2013 by William Binney, a former senior NSA crypto-mathematician – is that the NSA’s Utah Data Center will amount to a “turnkey” system that, in the wrong hands, could transform the country into a totalitarian state virtually overnight.
(20) In this paper we describe a computer model developed jointly by mathematicians and medical consultants.