Synonyms:
mathematician
Meaning: a person skilled in mathematics
Usage examples
In 1601, Kepler was appointed "Imperial mathematician," to assist Tycho in his calculations.
However, he was known as an accomplished young mathematician, and was made a fellow of his college.
A brilliant young mathematician, born in Normandy in 1811, had accepted the post of Astronomical Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique, then recently founded by Napoleon.
They knew it ought to be an ellipse if it was to serve to explain the planetary motion, and Hooke said he could prove that an ellipse it was; but he was nothing of a mathematician, and the others scarcely believed him.