How to Use mathematician in a Sentence

mathematician

noun

• The mathematician pedaled away from the bunch, right at the start.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 25 July 2021
• For decades, a math puzzle has stumped the smartest mathematicians in the world.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 9 Sep. 2019
• And no one calls for a mathematician’s head when a play goes awry.
  — John Romano, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2025
• To watch Shooni prepare for a shot is to watch a mathematician at work.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Nov. 2019
• The first star map can be traced back to the Greek astronomer and mathematician Hipparchus around 129 BC.
  — Lucie Green, Wired, 15 Dec. 2021
• There was even a trip to San Diego State to recruit a mathematician.
  — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2022
• His mother was a mathematician and his father was in the Marines for 30 years.
  — Eric Sondheimercolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2019
• In the mid-nineteenth century, the mathematician George Boole heard the voice of God.
  — Benjamín Labatut, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
• It should be noted that Laufer trained as a mathematician, not a chemist.
  — Jorge Just, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
• But still, even mathematicians need to have a bit of fun sometimes.
  — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 31 Oct. 2024
• The process reminded me of the way that mathematicians talk about their research.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2023
• The test is named for Alan Turing, the famed British mathematician, philosopher and wartime code breaker who proposed the test back in 1950.
  — Cade Metz, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2023
• The Greek letter π began to be widely used by mathematicians in the 1700s.
  — Emily Deletter, The Enquirer, 13 Mar. 2023
• The next mathematician who needed to use moments would have to solve the moment problem all over again.
  — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 12 Jan. 2023
• Death on death row, a groundbreaking NASA mathematician’s death, and the law gets him before his wife did.
  — Bob Sims | [e-mail], al, 25 Feb. 2020
• Terence Tao is one of the greatest mathematicians of our time.
  — Dave Linkletter, Popular Mechanics, 13 Sep. 2019
• And the 55-year-old applied mathematician is now paying a steep price for that neglect.
  — Jeffrey Mervis, Science | AAAS, 29 Apr. 2020
• Like mathematicians, physicists are known to cling to their chalk.
  — Staff, Quartz, 4 Sep. 2024
• But mathematicians want to know exactly how well Gauss’s guess holds up—and why.
  — Byzack Savitsky, science.org, 29 July 2024
• Bringing a 32-year-long quest to a close, mathematicians have discovered the ninth Dedekind number known as D(9).
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 13 July 2023
• In the 1920s, mathematicians began wondering: What’s the worst shape to pack?
  — Quanta Magazine, 28 June 2024
• That was case for the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Nov. 2023
• The question was first posed by Leo Moser, a Canadian mathematician, in the early 1960s.
  — Anna Kramer, Quanta Magazine, 19 July 2023
• At one point, the mathematician John von Neumann arrived at the lab bearing a long set of complex problems.
  — David Leonhardt, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• It was called the Poincaré conjecture, after the French mathematician Henri Poincaré, who’d posed it in 1904.
  — Quanta Magazine, 9 Sep. 2021
• The jokes about this mathematician’s name would never cease.
  — Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2022
• The first calculation of pi was done by Archimedes, a legendary mathematician of the ancient world, in the centuries leading up to the common era.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 14 Mar. 2024
• For as much artistry as Jokic is said to incorporate to the game of basketball, his shot-making in Game 5 felt more like the work of a mathematician.
  — Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 15 May 2024
• Applied mathematicians are interested in physics and the real world and how airplanes fly and how buildings are built.
  — Jake Kring-Schreifels, TIME, 5 Mar. 2025
• The naval base employs thousands of engineers, accountants, mathematicians and scientists who, under Senate Bill 287 and the Hatch Act, wouldn’t be able to run for their local school boards.
  — Alexandra Kukulka, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2025