algebraist
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- subalgebraist noun
Etymology
Origin of algebraist
Example Sentences
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And that is why the great algebraist, Carl Jacobi, so often said: “invert, always invert.”
From Time • Feb. 23, 2015
Igor Shafarevich, a world-famous algebraist, told Western newsmen that the aim of the essays was to bring about fundamental changes in the U.S.S.R.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is, however, but too true; it is a calculation easy to make, and therefore unworthy of an algebraist like you, marquis.
From The Queen's Necklace by Dumas père, Alexandre
The algebraist, by the transposition of mere letters, catches truths which no chain of reasoning could ever draw out of the deep.
From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul
Busy calculation and restless labor appear at first to be the grand elements of American life; mirth is apparently excluded, as the superfluous members of his equations are eliminated by the algebraist.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 by Various
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