arithmetician

I am somewhat surprised that the arithmetician Wallace, who extends the number of people at present existing to a thousand millions, should pretend in the same page, that in the year 966, after the creation, our forefathers amounted to sixteen hundred and ten millions.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

SOCRATES: Attend to what follows: must not the perfect arithmetician know all numbers, for he has the science of all numbers in his mind?

Theaetetus 2007

It was computed by an experienced arithmetician, that there was as much twopenny ale consumed on the discussion as would have floated a first-rate man-of-war.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

He is as good an arithmetician as Bareme, draws, dances, and sings well.

The Ball at Sceaux 2007

SOCRATES: That was my reason for asking how we ought to speak when an arithmetician sets about numbering, or a grammarian about reading?

Theaetetus 2007

He is as good an arithmetician as Bareme, draws, dances, and sings well.

The Ball at Sceaux 2007

SOCRATES: Having the use of the art, the arithmetician, if I am not mistaken, has the conceptions of number under his hand, and can transmit them to another.

Theaetetus 2007

Socrates: And this will be he who knows number, or the arithmetician?

The First Alcibiades 2006

Do you mean, for example, that he who is mistaken about the sick is a physician in that he is mistaken? or that he who errs in arithmetic or grammar is an arithmetician or grammarian at the time when he is making the mistake, in respect of the mistake?

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

It is concerned, not with visible objects, but with abstract truth; for numbers are pure abstractions — the true arithmetician indignantly denies that his unit is capable of division.

The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006