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Mathematical vs Mathemagician - What's the difference?

mathematical | mathemagician |

As an adjective mathematical

is of, or relating to mathematics.

As a noun mathemagician is

(informal) one whose mathematical skills are so remarkable as to resemble magic.

mathematical

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, or relating to mathematics
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  • * 1897 , (Thomas Hardy), (The Well-Beloved)
    • Smaller and smaller she waned up the rigid mathematical road, still gazing at the soldier aloft, as Pierston gazed at her.
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    • Although Galileo had designed a pendulum clock, he never actually constructed one. The first pendulum clock was constructed by the Dutch physicist Christian Huygens (1629–1695) in 1657. He also developed the mathematical theory of the pendulum. Newton also studied the motion of a pendulum and experimented with pendulums made of different materials and of different lengths.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Sarah Glaz
    • , title= Ode to Prime Numbers , volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical' concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from ' mathematical patterns involving primes.}}
  • Possible but highly improbable

    • mathemagician

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) One whose mathematical skills are so remarkable as to resemble magic.
  • * 1984 , Richard R Cornwall, Introduction to the use of general equilibrium analysis?
    • Of course, there is no reason why some algorithm invented by mathemagicians should have an analogy in the way actual markets work.
  • * 1995 , Martin Gardner, Classic Brainteasers
    • They're all here in this illustrated, brain-boggling bonanza by famous puzzler and mathemagician Martin Gardner.
  • * 2005 , Paul Virilio, The information bomb?
    • 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.