Mathmaster

• 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)
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake

• 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