algebraist

American  

[al-juh-brey-ist] / ˈæl dʒəˌbreɪ ɪst /

noun

1. an expert in algebra.

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Other Word Forms

• subalgebraist noun

Etymology

Origin of algebraist

First recorded in 1665–75; algebra + -ist

Example Sentences

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

Where Pope or Racine had one rule of metre, Victor Hugo has twenty, and he observes them as rigorously as an algebraist or an astronomer observes the rules of calculation or demonstration.

From Critical Miscellanies, Volume I (of 3) Essay 4: Macaulay by Morley, John

It is our opinion that these things are true, although we may never have visited Palmyra or Thebes, nor made the calculations of the algebraist, nor the observations of the astronomer.

From A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning by Holyoake, George Jacob

"The first thing you know, you'll be falling in love with the algebraist," said I. "Don't say it even in jest," he cried.

From The Wrecker by Stevenson, Robert Louis