Concept
Mathematician
Overview
A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
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I am not now speaking in particular of those who are to be professional mathematicians, or of those who for professional reasons require a knowledge of certain mathematical details. We are considering the liberal education of all students, including these two classes. This general use of mathematics should be the simple study of a few general truths, well illustrated by practical examples.
Alfred North Whitehead, The organisation of thought, educational and scientific
The author is tied to Mathematician in the knowledge graph; names Mathematician twice.
(M426) Innumerable vessels of matter. V. Cheyne. I’ll not admire the mathematicians. ’Tis wt any one of common sense might attain to by repeated acts. I prove it by experience. I am but one of human sense, and I &c. Mathematicians have some of them good parts—the more is the pity. Had they not been mathematicians they had been good for nothing. They were such fools they knew not how to employ their parts.
George Berkeley, The Works of George Berkeley. Vol. 1 of 4
Names Mathematician several times; states what Mathematician is.
When we think of mathematics, we have in our mind a science devoted to the exploration of number, quantity, geometry, and in modern times also including investigation into yet more abstract concepts of order, and into analogous types of purely logical relations. The point of mathematics is that in it we have always got rid of the particular instance, and even of any particular sorts of entities.
Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the modern world
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Philosophers who discussed Mathematician
- Auguste Comte
- Kurt Gödel
- Arcesilaus
- Friedrich Waismann
- Jakob Friedrich Fries
- Samuel von Pufendorf
- Claude Adrien Helvétius
- Pierre Louis Maupertuis
- Pierre Gassendi
- Antoine Arnauld
- Frank P. Ramsey
- William Kingdon Clifford
- John Venn
- Pavel Florensky
- Solomon Feferman
- Marquis de Condorcet
- Herbert Marcuse
- Stanisław Leśniewski
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Ludwig Boltzmann
- Gaston Bachelard
- Alfred Tarski
- Richard Montague
- Gersonides
Related ideas
- Gerolamo Cardano
- Isaac Newton
- Ibn al-Haytham
- Friedrich Schleiermacher
- Archimedes
- Algebra
- Mathematics
- Geometry
- Autonomy
- Mathematical model
- Medieval India
- Optics
- Applied mathematics
- Euclid's Elements
- Renaissance
- University of Cambridge
- Space
- Thales of Miletus
- Age of Enlightenment
- Humboldt University of Berlin
- University of Oxford
- Saunders Mac Lane
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- Prussia
Place in the tradition
Part of Conventionalism.