algebrician

English

Etymology

From algebra +‎ -ician.

Noun

algebrician (plural algebricians)

1. Synonym of algebraist
   • 1898, John Aubrey, Andrew Clark, 'Brief Lives': Chiefly of Contemporaries, page 198:

     Michaell Dary, mathematician, and a gunner of the Tower (by profession, a tobacco-cutter), an admirable algebrician, was buryed in the churchyard neer Bethlem on May-day 1679.b

   • 1999, Joseph-Marie Montmasson, Invention and the Unconscious, page 56:

     But this idea, which is a general postulate in all demonstrations, has been taken for granted by every algebrician and geometer.

   • 2015, Ruth Scurr -, John Aubrey: My Own Life, page 282:

     He was an old man, I guess over sixty-six, and an admirable algebrician.