, a person who analyses something, or makes use of the analytical method. In mathematics, it is a person skilled in algebra, or in the mathematical analysis in general.
Analyst, the title of an ingenious, though sophistical book, written by the celebrated Dr. Berkeley, against the doctrine of fluxions.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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