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matemático

Definitions of matemático
  1. noun
    a person skilled in mathematics
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    examples:
    George Boole
    English mathematician; creator of Boolean algebra (1815-1864)
    Rene Descartes
    French philosopher and mathematician; developed dualistic theory of mind and matter; introduced the use of coordinates to locate a point in two or three dimensions (1596-1650)
    Pierre de Fermat
    French mathematician who founded number theory; contributed (with Pascal) to the theory of probability (1601-1665)
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician who developed the theory of numbers and who applied mathematics to electricity and magnetism and astronomy and geodesy (1777-1855)
    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
    German philosopher and mathematician who thought of the universe as consisting of independent monads and who devised a system of the calculus independent of Newton (1646-1716)
    Isaac Newton
    English mathematician and physicist; remembered for developing the calculus and for his law of gravitation and his three laws of motion (1642-1727)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician and philosopher and Jansenist; invented an adding machine; contributed (with Fermat) to the theory of probability (1623-1662)
    Pitágoras
    Greek philosopher and mathematician who proved the Pythagorean theorem; considered to be the first true mathematician (circa 580-500 BC)
    Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann
    pioneer of non-Euclidean geometry (1826-1866)
    Euclides
    Greek geometer (3rd century BC)
    types:
    algebrista
    a mathematician whose specialty is algebra
    aritmético
    someone who specializes in arithmetic
    geómetra
    a mathematician specializing in geometry
    estadístico
    a mathematician who specializes in statistics
    trigonometrista
    a mathematician specializing in trigonometry
    type of:
    científico
    a person with advanced knowledge of one or more sciences
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