Difference between Pythagorean and Mathematician

What is the difference between Pythagorean and Mathematician?

Pythagorean as an adjective is of or relating to pythagoras or pythagoreanism while Mathematician as a noun is an expert on mathematics.

Pythagorean

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: of or relating to Pythagoras or Pythagoreanism

Mathematician

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An expert on mathematics.

Example sentence: In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.

We hope you now know whether to use Pythagorean or Mathematician in your sentence.

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