noun
Meaning 1
An expert on mathematics; someone who studies mathematics.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
mathematician
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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Australian, Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˌmæθ.(ə.)məˈtɪʃ.ən/
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New-Zealand: /ˌmɛθ.(ə.)məˈtəʃ.ən/
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rhymes with -ɪʃən
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CMU ARPABET: M AE2 TH AH0 M AH0 T IH1 SH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
a person skilled in mathematics
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: scientist
Narrower terms: algebraist, arithmetician, geometer, geometrician, number theorist, probability theorist, statistician, mathematical statistician, trigonometrician, Abel, Niels Abel, Niels Henrik Abel, Alhazen, Alhacen, al-Haytham, Ibn al-Haytham, Al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham, Archimedes, Bayes, Thomas Bayes, Bernoulli, Jakob Bernoulli, Jacques Bernoulli, James Bernoulli, Johann Bernoulli, Jean Bernoulli, John Bernoulli, Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, Boole, George Boole, Bowditch, Nathaniel Bowditch, Condorcet, Marquis de Condorcet, Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Descartes, Rene Descartes, Diophantus, Eratosthenes, Euler, Leonhard Euler, Fermat, Pierre de Fermat, Fourier, Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, Baron Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, Galois, Evariste Galois, Gauss, Karl Gauss, Karl Friedrich Gauss, Godel, Kurt Godel, Hamilton, William Rowan Hamilton, Sir William Rowan Hamilton, Hero, Heron, Hero of Alexandria, Hilbert, David Hilbert, Hipparchus, Jacobi, Karl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, Klein, Felix Klein, Kronecker, Leopold Kronecker, Laplace, Marquis de Laplace, Pierre Simon de Laplace, Leibniz, Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz, Lobachevsky, Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, Mandelbrot, Benoit Mandelbrot, Markov, Andrei Markov, Markoff, Andre Markoff, Minkowski, Hermann Minkowski, Mobius, August F. Mobius, August Ferdinand Mobius, Muller, Johann Muller, Regiomontanus, Napier, John Napier, Newton, Isaac Newton, Sir Isaac Newton, Noether, Emmy Noether, Omar Khayyam, Pascal, Blaise Pascal, Peirce, Benjamin Peirce, Pythagoras, Riemann, Bernhard Riemann, Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann, Turing, Alan Turing, Alan Mathison Turing, Veblen, Oswald Veblen, Vernier, Paul Vernier, von Neumann, Neumann, John von Neumann, Weil, Andre Weil, Whitehead, Alfred North Whitehead, Wiener, Norbert Wiener
History
Etymology
From Middle English mathematicion, from Middle French mathematicien, from mathematique f sg (“mathematics”) (from Latin mathēmatica, feminine of mathēmaticus, from Ancient Greek μαθηματικός (mathēmatikós, “fond of learning”), from μάθημα (máthēma, “knowledge, learning”) + -ικός (-ikós)) + Middle French -ien (from Latin -iānus). Displaced native Old English rīmcræftiga. By surface analysis, mathematic + -ian.
Across languages
Translations
107 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: matematikan — expert in mathematics
- Arabic: رِيَاضِيّ (riyāḍiyy) — expert in mathematics
- Arabic: رائض — expert in mathematics
- Armenian: մաթեմատիկոս (matʻematikos) — expert in mathematics
- Asturian: matemáticu — expert in mathematics
- Azerbaijani: riyaziyyatçı — expert in mathematics
- Basque: matematikari — expert in mathematics
- Belarusian: матэма́тык (matemátyk) — expert in mathematics
- Breton: jedoniour — expert in mathematics
- Bulgarian: математи́к (matematík) — expert in mathematics
- Bulgarian: математи́чка (matematíčka) — expert in mathematics
- Burmese: သင်္ချာပညာရှင် (sanghkyapa.nyahrang) — expert in mathematics
- Carpathian Rusyn: математичар (matematyčar) — expert in mathematics
- Carpathian Rusyn: рахункош (raxunkoš) — expert in mathematics
- Catalan: matemàtic — expert in mathematics
- Catalan: matemàtica — expert in mathematics
- Chinese Mandarin: 數學家 /数学家 (shùxuéjiā) — expert in mathematics
- Czech: matematik — expert in mathematics
- Czech: matematička — expert in mathematics
- Danish: matematiker — expert in mathematics
- Dutch: wiskundige — expert in mathematics
- Dutch: mathematicus — expert in mathematics
- East Frisian Low German: wiskünner — expert in mathematics
- East Frisian Low German: móótmóótikker — expert in mathematics
- Esperanto: matematikisto — expert in mathematics
- Esperanto: matematikistino — expert in mathematics
- Estonian: matemaatik — expert in mathematics
- Finnish: matemaatikko — expert in mathematics
- French: mathématicien — expert in mathematics
- French: mathématicienne — expert in mathematics
- North Frisian: Matemaatiker — expert in mathematics
- West-Frisian: wiskundige — expert in mathematics
- Friulian: matematic — expert in mathematics
- Galician: matemático — expert in mathematics
- Georgian: მათემატიკოსი (matemaṭiḳosi) — expert in mathematics
- German: Mathematiker — expert in mathematics
- German: Mathematikerin — expert in mathematics
- Greek: μαθηματικός (mathimatikós) — expert in mathematics
- Ancient Greek: μαθηματικός (mathēmatikós) — expert in mathematics
- Ancient Greek: μαθηματική (mathēmatikḗ) — expert in mathematics
- Hebrew: מָתֶמָטִיקַאי — expert in mathematics
- Hindi: गणितज्ञ (gaṇitajña) — expert in mathematics
- Hungarian: matematikus — expert in mathematics
- Icelandic: stærðfræðingur — expert in mathematics
- Ido: matematikisto — expert in mathematics
- Ido: matematikistulo — expert in mathematics
- Ido: matematikistino — expert in mathematics
- Indonesian: matematikawan — expert in mathematics
- Interlingua: mathematico — expert in mathematics
- Irish: matamaiticeoir — expert in mathematics
- Italian: matematico — expert in mathematics
- Italian: matematica — expert in mathematics
- Japanese: 数学者 (sūgakusha) — expert in mathematics
- Kazakh: математик (matematik) — expert in mathematics
- Khmer: អ្នកគណិតសាស្ត្រ (nĕək kĕəʼnetaʼsaah) — expert in mathematics
- Korean: 수학자 (suhakja) — expert in mathematics
- Kyrgyz: математик (matematik) — expert in mathematics
- Lao: ນັກຄະນິດສາດ (nak kha nit sāt) — expert in mathematics
- Latin: mathēmaticus — expert in mathematics
- Latin: mathēmatica — expert in mathematics
- Latvian: matemātiķis — expert in mathematics
- Latvian: matemātiķe — expert in mathematics
- Ligurian: matemático — expert in mathematics
- Lithuanian: matematikas — expert in mathematics
- Macedonian: математичар (matematičar) — expert in mathematics
- Macedonian: математичарка (matematičarka) — expert in mathematics
- Mongolian: математикч (matematikč) — expert in mathematics
- Norwegian Bokmål: matematiker — expert in mathematics
- Norwegian Nynorsk: matematikar — expert in mathematics
- Occitan: matematician — expert in mathematics
- Old English: rīmcræftiga — expert in mathematics
- Persian: ریاضیدان (riyâzi-dân) — expert in mathematics
- Polish: matematyk — expert in mathematics
- Polish: matematyczka — expert in mathematics
- Portuguese: matemático — expert in mathematics
- Portuguese: matemática — expert in mathematics
- Romanian: matematician — expert in mathematics
- Romanian: matematiciană — expert in mathematics
- Russian: матема́тик (matemátik) — expert in mathematics
- Scots: mathematician — expert in mathematics
- Scottish Gaelic: matamataigear — expert in mathematics
- Serbo-Croatian: матема̀тича̄р — expert in mathematics
- Serbo-Croatian: матема̀тича̄рка — expert in mathematics
- Serbo-Croatian: matemàtičār — expert in mathematics
- Serbo-Croatian: matemàtičārka — expert in mathematics
- Slovak: matematik — expert in mathematics
- Slovak: matematička — expert in mathematics
- Slovene: matematik — expert in mathematics
- Upper Sorbian: matematikar — expert in mathematics
- Spanish: matemático — expert in mathematics
- Spanish: matemática — expert in mathematics
- Swahili: mwanahisabati — expert in mathematics
- Swedish: matematiker — expert in mathematics
- Tagalog: sipnayanon — expert in mathematics
- Tagalog: maninipnay — expert in mathematics
- Tajik: риёзидон (riyozidon) — expert in mathematics
- Tajik: математик (matematik) — expert in mathematics
- Thai: นักคณิตศาสตร์ (nák-ká-nít-dtà-sàat) — expert in mathematics
- Turkish: matematikçi — expert in mathematics
- Turkmen: matematik — expert in mathematics
- Ukrainian: матема́тик (matemátyk) — expert in mathematics
- Uzbek: matematik — expert in mathematics
- Vietnamese: nhà toán học — expert in mathematics
- Volapük: matematan — expert in mathematics
- Volapük: himatematan — expert in mathematics
- Volapük: jimatematan — expert in mathematics
- Welsh: mathemategydd — expert in mathematics
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