algebraist

The Algebraist is more accessible because it's not constantly referring to a mysterious super-organization that's driving the plot.

An algebraist starts with the proof, and then looks for objects for which the proof is valid.

That doesn't mean a budding algebraist should study numerical analysis, it means you will learn how to do proofs in any rigorous math class.

I have seen it said that mathematicians break down into analyst types (calculus) and algebraist types (algebra).

Iain M Banks’ The Algebraist does a great job of covering that territory.

Outside of the Culture series, I also highly recommend the Algebraist and Feersum Endjinn (sp?).

If you like interfaces and design patterns you're probably an algebraist.

I’m algebraist at heart and training, but I remember beautiful many-layered surfaces of ordinary complex functions in books and on blackboards.

An algebraist has the tendency to make trivial statements complicated.

Blindsight by Peter Watts Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds Startide Rising by David Brin A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge The Algebraist by Iain M.

If you like Haskell, you're probably an algebraist.

When I studied math I was definitely, in your taxonomy, an algebraist.

I like Ian Banks take on this from his book "The Algebraist".

When an algebraist looks at a polynomial they see a symbolic object, more akin to the "function as a rule." Maybe this is why algebra is so popular amongst other functional programmers.

A cutting-edge algebraist doesn't want to spend his time cutting clock cycles off of a vanilla matrix multiplication, nor does an academic analyst ("analysis" being a specific field of math, as in real/complex analysis) want to spend his time fretting over the (often jarring and unpredictable) discrepancies between floats and real numbers.

This seems very much like the military situation in Iain Banks' The Algebraist.

I did enjoy The Algebraist, though I read it a while ago so it's a bit foggy.

It is also referred to in 'The Algebraist' by Ian M.