Mathematician

Definitions

An expert on mathematics; someone who studies mathematics.

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Examples

“I suspect⟳ that in their hearts most working mathematicians are Platonists, in that they take⟳ it as a matter⟳ of unassailable if unprovable fact that mathematical reality stands apart from the world, and is at least as real as the world, and possibly gives shape⟳ to the world, as Plato suggested. Most mathematicians would probably agree⟳ that the ratio of the circle to its diameter exists brilliantly in the nature beyond nature, and would exist⟳ even if the human mind⟳ was not aware of it, and might exist⟳ even if God had not bothered to create⟳ it.”

“The true work⟳ of the mathematician is not experienced until the later parts of graduate school, when the student is challenged to create⟳ knowledge in the form⟳ of a novel proof.”

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