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n. - A mathematician whose specialty is a branch of mathematics in which arithmetic relations are generalized and explored by using letter symbols to represent numbers, variable quantities, or other mathematical entities

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  • My father was an algebraist, taught college math all his life.
  • If it is all his own, he will make a good algebraist in the time to come.
  • In the judgment of many, she is the greatest algebraist of the twentieth century.
  • Come to think of it the villain in "The algebraist" really seems out of place in an Iain M Banks Sci fi ...
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