I’m not truly a fan of self-deprecation but I just couldn’t help it with I opened up my “Word a day” email today.
mathematicaster
PRONUNCIATION: (math-uh-mat-KAS-tuhr)
MEANING: noun: A minor or incompetent mathematician.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin mathematicus, from Greek mathematikos, from mathanein (to learn) + -aster (a pejorative suffix).
There you have it, an appropriate appellative for a man who’s so bad at math he hesitates to preach out of the book of Numbers.