logician

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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

Named after Cambridge University mathematician and logician John Venn, they first appeared in his book "Symbolic Logic" in 1880.

From Salon • Jul. 29, 2024

“Euclid famously starts with ‘definitions’ that are almost poetic,” Jeremy Avigad, a logician at Carnegie Mellon University, said in an email.

From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2023

One of them is an economist and one of them is a logician and one of them is a mathematician.

From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon