mathematician

«mathematician» in Mova's school dictionary: a person who studies maths deeply or whose job is doing… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a mathematician, mathematicians)

meaning for a pupil

1) A mathematician is a person who studies maths deeply or whose job is doing maths, finding new ideas, proving things or solving hard problems. tree →

2) Someone who is very good at maths can be called a good mathematician. tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths lessons, teachers may say «think like a mathematician»: notice patterns, ask «what if?», explain and prove. In history of maths, famous mathematicians include Pythagoras, Hypatia, Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing, Katherine Johnson and Srinivasa Ramanujan. Phrases: «a great mathematician», «young mathematician».

examples

• Katherine Johnson was a mathematician who helped send astronauts into space. tree →
• A mathematician checks that a proof works for every number. tree →
• Our class has some keen young mathematicians. tree →
• Pythagoras was an ancient Greek mathematician. tree →
• Mathematicians use patterns to solve problems. tree →
• Ada Lovelace was a mathematician and the first computer programmer. tree →

note

Countable noun. Spelled «mathematic-ian», with «-cian» said like «-shun»: «math-uh-muh-TISH-un». UK short form «maths», US «math», but the person is a mathematician everywhere.

In the corpora

• Indian mathematicians treated zero as a real number, and the digits 0 to 9 on your calculator were invented in India.
• Thousands of people worked on Apollo, including the mathematician Katherine Johnson and the programmer Margaret Hamilton.
• Neptune was found in 1846 after mathematicians predicted where it must be from the way it tugged on Uranus.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «mathematician» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.