Mai ilimin lissafi

Mai aikin lissafi kalma ce da ake amfani da ita ga wasu masu sana'a, masu fasaha da malamai waɗanda suka yi amfani da lissafi ta hanyar aiki, musamman tsakanin 1485 da 1840. A cikin rubutunta na asali, Masu Aikin Lissafi na Tudor da Stuart England, Eva Germaine Rimington Taylor ta gabatar da kalmar a cikin 1954. A cikin wannan littafin ta yi jayayya cewa ba tare da waɗannan "ƙananan mutane ba", manyan masana kimiyya na wannan lokacin ba za su yi tasiri sosai ba.  a cikin wani ƙarin littafi na Mathematical Practitioners of Hanoverian England, 1714–1840 da aka buga bayan mutuwarsa a 1966, ta yi jayayya cewa zuwa 1840 fannoni daban-daban sun haɓaka a cikin rukunin da ta ayyana, cewa ba shi da ma'ana a yi musu kallon ƙungiya mai haɗin kai ta masu aiki. 

Lesley Cormack ya bayyana mai aikin lissafi a matsayin ɗaya daga cikin "waɗanda suka sani ta hanyar aikatawa", maimakon malami ko masanin falsafa wanda yake ɗaya daga cikin "waɗanda suka sani ta hanyar tunani".  A cikin mahallin Turanci, Stephen Johnston ya nuna bambanci tsakanin aikin masu aikin lissafi da lissafi na kotu da lissafi na ilimi. Ya jaddada yanayin jama'a na aikin lissafi, wanda tasirinsa a wurare da yanayi daban-daban ya fallasa amfaninsa ta hanyar nasarar aikinsa. 

Lokacin da aka kafa Kamfanin Muscovy a shekara ta 1551, sun ba Robert Recorde umarnin rubuta littattafan lissafi don amfani da masu binciken su. Sun yi niyyar samar da ingantaccen ilimi don baiwa kamfaninsu damar yin tafiye-tafiye masu mahimmanci a teku. An buga a shekara ta 1551, Pathway to Knowledge ta samar da jadawalin lissafi ta hanyar littattafai huɗu na farko na Euclid's Elements . Wani ƙarin littafi, The Whetstone of Witte (1557), ya ba da bayani game da Algebra, wanda aka keɓe ga gwamnonin Kamfanin Muscovy da fatan ƙarfafa ƙarin bincike da shirye-shiryen kasuwanci. [1]

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