algorist

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   One who uses Arabic numerals to represent numbers and to perform calculations, as opposed…

   One who uses Arabic numerals to represent numbers and to perform calculations, as opposed to one who uses Roman numerals to represent numbers and an abacus to perform calculations.

   • In the handling of numbers the dream of the algorist was to free men from a machine.
   • Navigators, astronomers, scientists, mathematicians, and others who were involved in a great deal of calculating were rather readily converted to the algorist inclination.
   • The sixteenth-century print at the left shows an abacist competing against an algorist.
2. 2

   One who develops algorithms.

   • As an algorist Ramanujan had few peers in the world of mathematics.
   • It was in Lyons where Nicholas Chuquet, a master algorist, worked and by 1484 completed a series of manuscripts referred to as the Triparty.
   • Always the daring algorist, Euler occasionally trusted his formulas too far, and was unperturbed when they propesied material absurdities.
3. 3

   The aspect of a biological organism that follows a systematic process to interpret…

   The aspect of a biological organism that follows a systematic process to interpret perceptual data.

   • What we witness in Trevarthan's and Halliday's behavioral and protolinguistic analyses of infant line, is the infant as algorist possessing and deploying a stock of fundamental strategies or modes for selectively operating upon the world.
   • It is very difficult not to construe the algorist as homunculus, although claims are made to the contrary. The algorist is somehow not simply the perceiver (otherwise that word would do).

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