Mathmaster

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  • mathētēs (μαθητης): (Greek) pupil → contest between a pupil and his master?
  • math: (Anglo-Saxon) mow, cut down
  • math: (Sanskrit) annihilate
  • math: (Hindi) hut; monastery
  • m-m-master: master said with a stutter → in FW HCE's stutter is always a sign of his guilt
  • MacMaster ?
  • mathmaster → to overcome by means of logic, reason and strategy? → to outwit? (Joyce's coinage)
  • mathematics ?
  • still out to mathmaster → Adaline Glasheen discerns an allusion to Dublin's patron saint Laurence O'Toole (his surname in "still") and London's Thomas à Becket (his first name in to mathmaster)
  • Professor of Mathematics: Éamon de Valera, born 1882, professor of mathematics in Dublin colleges including Belvedere; nominal head of the anti-Treaty forces (Baddelaries partisans FW 004.03) during the Irish Civil War