mathematician
noun
math·e·ma·ti·cian
ˌmath-mə-ˈti-shən 
ˌma-thə-
: a specialist or expert in mathematics
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In March mathematicians Yu Deng of the University of Chicago and Zaher Hani and Xiao Ma of the University of Michigan posted a new paper to the preprint server arXiv.org that claims to have cracked one of these goals.
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Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 14 Apr. 2025
The question was proposed by Japanese mathematician Sōichi Kakeya in 1917.
—Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Apr. 2025
But mathematicians often only need to look at the directions that give the biggest and smallest curvature values.
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Within a few years, mathematicians had used it to resolve most cases of the McKay conjecture.
—Leila Sloman, WIRED, 23 Mar. 2025
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Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 14 Apr. 2025
The question was proposed by Japanese mathematician Sōichi Kakeya in 1917.
—Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Apr. 2025
But mathematicians often only need to look at the directions that give the biggest and smallest curvature values.
—Quanta Magazine, 31 Mar. 2025
Within a few years, mathematicians had used it to resolve most cases of the McKay conjecture.
—Leila Sloman, WIRED, 23 Mar. 2025
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“Mathematician.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mathematician. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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mathematician
noun
math·e·ma·ti·cian
ˌmath-(ə-)mə-ˈtish-ən
: a specialist or expert in mathematics
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