A mathematician who does research in algebra is called an algebraist. He was an algebraist, group theorist, and numerical analyst. It is called Radford's biproduct, named after its discoverer, the Hopf algebraist David Radford. Dickson became the first great American algebraist and number theorist. The award is named after the German algebraist Reinhold Baer. The great exception was Diophantus of Alexandria, the great algebraist. An algebraist would say that the operations do not commute. "The Algebraist" was shortlisted for the 2005 Hugo Award for Best Novel. A near-contemporary of Bliss's at Chicago was the algebraist Leonard Dickson. It was defined by the algebraist Richard Brauer.