arithmetician

[ uh-rith-mi-tish-uh n, ar-ith- ]

/ əˌrɪθ mɪˈtɪʃ ən, ˌær ɪθ- /

an expert in arithmetic.

Origin of arithmetician

1550–60; < Middle French arithmeticien; see arithmetic, -ian

Analogy of special arts — it is only the arithmetician who can speak falsely on a question of arithmetic when he chooses.

Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume II (of 4) |George Grote
There can be no arithmetic without an Arithmetician, no geometry without a Geometrician.

The Theistic Conception of the World |B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker
His acquirements as an arithmetician were extraordinary; and as a speaker he possessed remarkable powers.

Reminiscences of a Canadian Pioneer for the last Fifty Years |Samuel Thompson
We here detect a person quite unnoticed hitherto by the moderns, Magnus the arithmetician.

A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) |Augustus De Morgan

This is a metaphor, borrowed partly from the grazier's vocabulary, and partly from the arithmetician's vade-mecum.

Tales And Novels, Volume 4 (of 10) |Maria Edgeworth