Timeline for Origin of the noun "mathematician"
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| Nov 28, 2019 at 9:30 | history | edited | Emil Jeřábek | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 28, 2019 at 7:11 | history | edited | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 27, 2019 at 21:49 | history | edited | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 27, 2019 at 21:35 | history | edited | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 27, 2019 at 16:55 | comment | added | Francois Ziegler | I read Denis’ query as less about the etymology (which seems clear: initially just “learned person, savant”) than whether that was where and when that use gained currency. Pythagoras’ school $\simeq$ 500 BC, I guess documents are scarce... | |
| Nov 27, 2019 at 16:46 | history | edited | Denis Serre | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 27, 2019 at 16:35 | history | edited | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 27, 2019 at 16:21 | history | edited | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 27, 2019 at 16:06 | history | edited | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 27, 2019 at 16:01 | history | edited | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 27, 2019 at 16:00 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | "Mathematicus" indeed meant "astrologer" in the Roman empire, there is ample evidence of that. Those we call mathematicians called themselves philosophers. | |
| Nov 27, 2019 at 15:57 | history | edited | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 27, 2019 at 15:49 | history | edited | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 27, 2019 at 15:35 | history | edited | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 27, 2019 at 15:35 | comment | added | Denis Nardin | That's only the earliest known uses of the noun mathematician in English. The word came from Ancient Greek, where it has a rather longer history. | |
| Nov 27, 2019 at 15:33 | history | answered | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 4.0 |