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with Anu Garg

mathematicaster

PRONUNCIATION:

(math-uh-mat-uh-KAS-tuhr)

MEANING:

noun: A minor or incompetent mathematician.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin mathematicus, from Greek mathematikos, from manthanein (to learn) + -aster (a pejorative suffix).

USAGE:

"I hope [the theorem] will discover more of these empty mathematicasters."
Noel Malcolm and Jacqueline Stedall; John Pell and His Correspondence with Sir Charles Cavendish; Oxford University Press; 2005.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth. -Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)

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