arithmetician

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

  The Ball at Sceaux

• “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

• “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

• “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

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

  Theaetetus

• “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

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

  The First Alcibiades

• “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

• “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

• “Then this is knowledge of the kind for which we are seeking, having a double use, military and philosophical; for the man of war must learn the art of number or he will not know how to array his troops, and the philosopher also, because he has to rise out of the sea of change and lay hold of true being, and therefore he must be an arithmetician.”

  The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett

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