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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who is versed in the science of algebra. Also algebrist.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One versed in algebra.

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  • noun mathematics A mathematician who specializes in algebra.

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  • noun a mathematician whose specialty is algebra

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Examples

  • My father was an algebraist, taught college math all his life.

    Making Light: Open thread 137 2010

  • In the judgment of many, she is the greatest algebraist of the twentieth century.

    Emmy Noether. 2009

  • Come to think of it the villain in "The algebraist" really seems out of place in an Iain M Banks Sci fi ...

    Sci-Fi Villains...The Beacons of Morality 2007

  • Peirce was primarily an algebraist in his mathematical style; for example, he was enthusiastic for the cause of quaternions in mechanics after their introduction by W.R. Hamilton in the mid 1840s, and of the various traditions in mechanics he showed some favour for the

    I Am Wearing Stolen Socks 2009

  • Her ideas revolutionized current understanding of algebra and laid the groundwork for further work by her "children" and "grandchildren" in the mathematical world, who consider her the greatest algebraist of the last hundred years.

    Emmy Noether. 2009

  • The problem is of course (as any algebraist sees at once) a case of “simultaneous simple equations” It is, however, easily soluble by arithmetic only; and, when this is the case, I hold that it is bad workmanship to use the more complex method.

    A Tangled Tale 2003

  • If it is all his own, he will make a good algebraist in the time to come.

    A Tangled Tale 2003

  • Luminous members whom I recall with special vividness were the algebraist Richard Brauer, the non-Euclidean geometer, H.S.M. Coxeter, the aforementioned

    Walter Kohn - Autobiography 1999

  • 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.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 Various

  • To this task, so clearly defined by Fresnel, Cauchy devoted the most powerful efforts of his genius as an algebraist and, thanks to this pupil of Laplace, the Newtonian physics of molecular attraction became an active factor in the propagation of the theory of undulatory optics.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

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