algorist

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who uses Arabic numerals to represent numbers and to perform calculations, as opposed to one who uses Roman numerals to represent numbers and an abacus to perform calculations.
    — In the handling of numbers the dream of the algorist was to free men from a machine.
  2. One who develops algorithms.
    — As an algorist Ramanujan had few peers in the world of mathematics.
  3. The aspect of a biological organism that follows a systematic process to interpret perceptual data.
    — What we witness in Trevarthan's and Halliday's behavioral and protolinguistic analyses of infant line, is the infant as algorist possessing and deploying a stock of fundamental strategies or modes for selectively operating upon the world.

词形变化

algorists plural

词源

A corruption of the name al-Khwārizmī, who introduced the use of arabic numerals.
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