What is another word for geometrician?

Pronunciation: [d͡ʒˌiːə͡ʊmɪtɹˈɪʃən] (IPA)

A geometrician is someone who specializes in the study of geometry. However, there are several synonyms that can be used to describe a person with this expertise. A geomancer, for example, is a person who practices divination by interpreting patterns in the earth. A geometer, on the other hand, is someone who studies the concepts and principles of geometry, while a trigonometrist focuses on trigonometry specifically. A cartographer is yet another synonym, referring to someone who creates maps and charts using mathematical principles. All of these terms describe individuals who work with shapes, spaces, and measurements in one way or another, making them each a fitting alternative to the term geometrician.

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Usage examples for Geometrician

1744, was also an eminent geometrician, and a friend of Laland.
"A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations"
Joseph Mazzini Wheeler
Andreyev's father, who was a geometrician, died while he was still at school, and the family was without resources.
"Contemporary Russian Novelists"
Serge Persky
In short, the famous Protestant geometrician whom I speak of appeared so perfectly sincere; he asserted so confidently that he would raise the dead, and his proposition was put forward with so much plausibility and strenuousness, that the people entertained a very strong impression on the subject, and Queen Anne was advised to appoint a day, an hour, and a cemetery, such as he should himself select, in which he might have the opportunity of performing his miracle legally, and under the inspection of justice.
"A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 5 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version""
François-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire) Commentator: John Morley Tobias Smollett H.G. Leigh

Famous quotes with Geometrician

  • To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.
    Thomas Hobbes
  • Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but very difficult to be a good man. I esteem, therefore, the traveller who instructs the heart, but despise him who only indulges the imagination. A man who leaves home to mend himself and others, is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is only a vagabond.
    Oliver Goldsmith

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