My father was an algebraist, taught college math all his life. From Wordnik.com. [Making Light: Open thread 137] Reference
If it is all his own, he will make a good algebraist in the time to come. From Wordnik.com. [A Tangled Tale] Reference
In the judgment of many, she is the greatest algebraist of the twentieth century. From Wordnik.com. [Emmy Noether.] Reference
Come to think of it the villain in "The algebraist" really seems out of place in an Iain M Banks Sci fi. From Wordnik.com. [Sci-Fi Villains...The Beacons of Morality] Reference
Luminous members whom I recall with special vividness were the algebraist Richard Brauer, the non-Euclidean geometer, H.S.M. Coxeter, the aforementioned. From Wordnik.com. [Walter Kohn - Autobiography] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Emmy Noether.] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [A Tangled Tale] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [I Am Wearing Stolen Socks] Reference
These range from the puzzle that the algebraist finds to be nothing but a. From Wordnik.com. [The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems] Reference
"The first thing you know, you'll be falling in love with the algebraist," said I. "Don't say it, even in jest," he cried. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrecker] Reference
Victor Hugo has twenty, and he observes them as rigorously as an algebraist or an astronomer observes the rules of calculation or demonstration. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Miscellanies, Volume I (of 3) Essay 4: Macaulay] Reference
She was never sure whether she was a topologist or an algebraist, and is now happily immersed in geometric group theory, a combination of the two. From Wordnik.com. [MAA Column - Devlin's Angle by Keith Devlin] Reference
To one of our ordinary festivities, where he was the life and soul of his own mess, Pinkerton himself came incognito, bringing the algebraist on his arm. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrecker] Reference
His most judicious remarks differ from the remarks of a really philosophical historian, as a sum correctly cast up by a bookkeeper from a general expression discovered by an algebraist. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2] Reference
And had I but known of any precedent, (as since in Harriot I find one, and I think but one - dddddd,) I should not have scrupled to follow it; but I was then too young an algebraist to innovate without example. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Hariot]
The arithmetician, the algebraist, and more generally the analyst, in whom invention obtains in the most abstract form of discontinuous functions -- symbols and their relations -- cannot imagine like the geometrician. From Wordnik.com. [Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English] Reference
Quære, is it possible that the fame of Vieta, who himself held very high stations in the household all his life, could have given people the notion that when such an officer chose to declare himself an algebraist, he must be one indeed?. From Wordnik.com. [A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)] Reference
To a superficial observer, so wonderful a regularity may be admired as the effect either of chance or design: but a skilful algebraist immediately concludes it to be the work of necessity, and demonstrates, that it must for ever result from the nature of these numbers. From Wordnik.com. [Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
Sir Peter Delme, a Sir Richard Hopkins, a Sir Gilbert Heathcote, whilst a poor algebraist spends his whole life in searching for astonishing properties and relations in numbers, which at the same time are of no manner of use, and will not acquaint him with the nature of exchanges. From Wordnik.com. [Letters on England] Reference
If, then, before the art of multiplying the productions of the human mind existed, the doctrines of a philosopher in manuscript or by lecture could diffuse themselves throughout a literary nation, it will baffle the algebraist of metaphysics to calculate the unknown quantities of the propagation of human thought. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions] Reference
A man who understands the four fundamental rules of arithmetic, aided by a little good sense, shall amass prodigious wealth in trade, shall become a Sir Peter Delmé, a Sir Richard Hopkins, a Sir Gilbert Heathcote, whilst a poor algebraist spends his whole life in searching for astonishing properties and relations in numbers, which at the same time are of no manner of use, and will not acquaint him with the nature of exchanges. From Wordnik.com. [Letter XXIV-On the Royal Society and Other Academies] Reference
It is almost certain that the treatise as a whole -- leaving out of account the special question of the solution of cubic equations -- must have gained enormously in completeness and lucidity from the fresh knowledge revealed to the writer thereof by Tartaglia's reluctant disclosure, and, over and beyond this, it must be borne in mind that Cardan had been working for several years at Giovanni Colla's questions in conjunction with Ferrari, an algebraist as famous as Tartaglia or himself. From Wordnik.com. [Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study] Reference
"It is, however, but too true; it is a calculation easy to make, and therefore unworthy of an algebraist like you, marquis. From Wordnik.com. [The Queen's Necklace] Reference
"first geometer and algebraist of Italy.". From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Munger quotes the algebraist, Jacobi, who said, "invert, always invert.". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference
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