A person who specializes in algebra or who is particularly skilled in algebraic mathematics.
From algebra plus the suffix '-ist,' meaning 'one who practices or specializes in.' This term emerged in the 16th-17th centuries as algebra became a distinct mathematical discipline.
An 'algebraist' was once a rare specialist—now we'd call them a mathematician—but the term persists in showing how we label people by what they study!
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