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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mathematician/#m1)

2) Someone who is very good at maths can be called a good mathematician. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mathematician/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mathematician/#x1)
- A mathematician checks that a proof works for every number. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mathematician/#x2)
- Our class has some keen young mathematicians. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mathematician/#x3)
- Pythagoras was an ancient Greek mathematician. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mathematician/#x4)
- Mathematicians use patterns to solve problems. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mathematician/#x5)
- Ada Lovelace was a mathematician and the first computer programmer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mathematician/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/8-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers/4/)
- [Thousands of people worked on Apollo, including the mathematician Katherine Johnson and the programmer Margaret Hamilton.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon/15/)
- [Neptune was found in 1846 after mathematicians predicted where it must be from the way it tugged on Uranus.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/14-uranus-and-neptune/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mathematician» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mathematician/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.