Difference between revisions of "Mathmaster"
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* '''mathētēs (μαθητης):''' (''Greek'') pupil → contest between a pupil and his master? | * '''mathētēs (μαθητης):''' (''Greek'') pupil → contest between a pupil and his master? | ||
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| + | * '''math:''' (''Anglo-Saxon'') mow, cut down; (''Sanskrit'') annihilate | ||
* '''m-m-master:''' ''master'' said with a stutter → in FW [[HCE|HCE's]] stutter is always a sign of his guilt | * '''m-m-master:''' ''master'' said with a stutter → in FW [[HCE|HCE's]] stutter is always a sign of his guilt | ||
Revision as of 12:40, 9 September 2010
- mathētēs (μαθητης): (Greek) pupil → contest between a pupil and his master?
- math: (Anglo-Saxon) mow, cut down; (Sanskrit) annihilate
- 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.
