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algebraist
[ al-juh-brey-ist ]
Other Words From
- sub·alge·braist noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of algebraist1
Example Sentences
Instead of trying to measure the area inside a parabola as the Greeks did, early algebraists sought to find the solutions to equations that encode relationships between different numbers.
And that is why the great algebraist, Carl Jacobi, so often said: “invert, always invert.”
Mathematics received an impulse, largely, it is true, from the Arabs of Spain, but also from the East; Leonardo Fibonacci, the first Christian algebraist, had travelled in Syria and Egypt.
The same method applied to a problem given by the ancient Hindu algebraist Brahmagupta, who lived in the seventh century after Christ, might result in placing Brahmagupta in prehistoric times.
We believe in the existence of the ruins of Palmyra and Thebes, and in certain discoveries of algebraists and astronomers.
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