mathemagician

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1. informalOne whose mathematical skills are so remarkable as to resemble magic.

   They're all here in this illustrated, brain-boggling bonanza by famous puzzler and mathemagician Martin Gardner.

   1995, Martin Gardner, Classic Brainteasers

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   Of course, there is no reason why some algorithm invented by mathemagicians should have an analogy in the way actual markets work.

   1984, Richard R Cornwall, Introduction to the use of general equilibrium analysis

   It is not, then, a Boeing which our mathemagicians propose to make vanish, but the living Earth; and it is its metaphysical double which they are progressively unveiling to us.

   2005, Paul Virilio, The information bomb