I have looked in the English dictionary and it defines a Mathematician as a student or expert of Mathematics. Or someone whose job involves Mathematics.
I have an honours degree (2.1) in Mathematics but I don't consider myself to be a Mathematician.
To me a Mathematician is somebody like Carl Friedrich Gauss, Isaac Newton, Leonhard Euler and the like.
Please give your opinion
2006-07-15 12:34:32 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
I didn't consider myself a mathematician until I got my PhD in mathematics. That requires original research that is recognized by other mathematicians. I would say that even a Master's degree in mathematics only makes one a mathematician in training and not a full-fledged mathematician *unless* you have done original research. On the other hand, someone who has done original mathematics research would be a mathematician in my book. So Fermat was a mathematician even though his profession was a lawyer since he did an amazing amount of original work in math.
The people you mentioned are at the top of the profession, but most research mathematicians are not even close to their level.
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Define Mathematician please?
I have looked in the English dictionary and it defines a Mathematician as a student or expert of Mathematics. Or someone whose job involves Mathematics.
I have an honours degree (2.1) in Mathematics but I don't consider myself to be a Mathematician.
To me a Mathematician is somebody like...
2015-08-18 07:26:52 · answer #3 · answered by Gita 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study and research is mathematics. In other words, a mathematician is a person who contributes to the field of mathematics. People who apply mathematics to other fields, but do not contribute directly to mathematics, are generally not considered mathematicians.
2006-07-15 12:47:01 · answer #4 · answered by Mark P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My opinion is that a 'mathematician' is someone who has a 4 year degree from an acredited college in Mathematics. I always thought of Newton as more of a Physicist but then again, he did invent Calculus, which is the backbone of mathematics so I guess it is up for interpretation.
2006-07-15 12:41:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
it but be leave it is as much about loving maths as doing it I enjoy maths and love to play games with it. I am not a mathematician but if I made some knew discovery in that Field may be considered one in the future I think generally people are dead before their talents are recognised
2006-07-16 08:07:16 · answer #6 · answered by Sam's 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The individuals you listed aren't just mathematicians: they are exceptionally brilliant mathematicians.
Perhaps the easiest, although not exactly adequate, answer is someone who makes their living using or reasearching (or at the college level, perhaps teaching) mathematics.
I've got a degree in mathematics, and I certainly use mathematics heavily but totally recreationally; I wouldn't call myself a mathematician.
Let me make a rather simplistic analogy. I sing. (Give thanks that you can't HEAR me sing; my tenor is, um, something less than wonderful.) LOTS of people sing! But I wouldn't call myself a singer. Now, Paul McCartney, and Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra--now THEY were SINGERS! Exceptional ones, too, in their day and genre. But there were LOTS of other singers who made a living by singing and never rose to the degree of fame McCartney or Sinatra or Presley or Pavarotti did; they were still singers, though.
Switch in the word "use math" for sing; "mathematician" for singer, and your list of names for mine--and it still works.
Hope that helps!
2006-07-15 12:47:24 · answer #7 · answered by gandalf 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would say if you had a degree in Mathematics then you are a mathematician.
2006-07-15 12:46:22 · answer #8 · answered by keefer 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ONE WHO ALWAYS THINKS MATHEMATICALLY, UNDERLINE ALWAYS. If you apply mathematics to thought and the process is right you are never denied by the universe. Takes a bit of practice. Gather all the facts to come to an absolute without putting a person or feelings in it. This is mathematical thinking. It ain't always about the numbers. Meaning consider everything that exist and in your consideration consider the proirity.
2006-07-15 13:26:14 · answer #9 · answered by IFE 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well i know little about this. but in my humble opinion a mathematician would be one who used maths to solve problems or invented........... sorry lost my thread of thought
2006-07-15 12:40:03 · answer #10 · answered by surfergirl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋