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Someone whose work is mathematics: they study it, teach it, or use it at a high level as their job. It is the person-word, not the subject-word. A school maths teacher can be called a mathematician, though some people keep the word for researchers who prove new things. It is a neutral, respectful, ordinary word in both speech and writing. You do not have to be famous, or a genius, to be one; you have to live with mathematics as your craft.
數學家
組成From Middle English mathematicion, from Middle French mathematicien, from mathematique (“mathematics”) plus French -ien. Under the surface: mathematic + -ian (a person of that field). It took the place of an old English word, rīmcræftiga.
同家族的字
- mathematicsthe subject this person works in
- mathematicalof or like mathematics
- mathsthe everyday British short name for the subject (math in American English)
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
mathematiciannoun/ˌmæθ.(ə.)məˈtɪʃ.ən/
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An expert on mathematics; someone who studies mathematics.
- I suspect that in their hearts most working mathematicians are Platonists, in that they take it as a matter of unassailable if unprovable fact that mathematical reality stands apart from the world, and is at least as real as the world, and possibly gives shape to the world, as Plato suggested. Most mathematicians would probably agree that the ratio of the circle to its diameter exists brilliantly in the nature beyond nature, and would exist even if the human mind was not aware of it, and might exist even if God had not bothered to create it.
- The true work of the mathematician is not experienced until the later parts of graduate school, when the student is challenged to create knowledge in the form of a novel proof.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。