What's the difference between geometer and mathematician?

Geometer


Definition:

  • (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.

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