Algebraist
/ˈæl.dʒə.brə.ɪst/noun
A person who specializes in or studies algebra.
Did you know?The word ultimately comes from the title of a ninth-century Arabic mathematical treatise by al-Khwarizmi, whose methods helped introduce systematic equation-solving to Europe.
Etymological Timeline
9th Century
Arabic
al-jabr
“Restoration, reunion, or completion of what is broken; a mathematical method of balancing an equation”
9th Century
Arabic
al-kitāb al-mukhtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-jabr wa-l-muqābala
“Al-Khwarizmi’s treatise on calculation by restoration and balancing”
12th Century
Latin
algebra
“The mathematical discipline transmitted from Arabic scholarship into medieval Latin”
16th–17th Century
European Latin/English
algebraist
“A mathematician or practitioner of algebra”
Modern English
English
algebraist
“A specialist or student of algebra”