logician

Example Sentences

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Mr. Elwes, a mathematical logician and professor at the University of Leeds, enumerates a multitude of such anecdotes—delightful, insightful, informative—to illustrate the bigger picture in “Huge Numbers.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

As Bessent should understand, the violation of one logical condition can obviate the logic of another—what a logician might call an “antecedent condition.”

From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026

It was formulated by Boole, an Irish mathematician and logician, who redirected the study of reasoning.

From Salon • Jul. 29, 2024

Also Fyodor, employed at a meatpacking plant and probably ill-fatedly dating a vegetarian and logician, Timo, who is opposed to the slaughter of animals but supports the death penalty for mass shooters.

From New York Times • May 21, 2023

But English is more flexible than what a logician would have designed, and the context generally makes it clear what the speaker means.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker