mathemagician

noun

Etymology

Blend of mathematician + magician.

  1. derived from magicien
  2. inherited from magicien
  3. compounded as mathemagician — “mathematician + magician

Definitions

  1. One whose mathematical skills are so remarkable as to resemble magic.

    • Of course, there is no reason why some algorithm invented by mathemagicians should have an analogy in the way actual markets work.
    • They're all here in this illustrated, brain-boggling bonanza by famous puzzler and mathemagician Martin Gardner.
    • It is not, then, a Boeing which our mathemagicians propose to make vanish, but the living Earth; and it is its metaphysical double which they are progressively unveiling to us.

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