...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[On refusing to do nude movie scenes:] There are certain people who should know what you look like naked. I just don't… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side;… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
No one fully understands spinors. Their algebra is formally understood but their general significance is mysterious. In some sense they describe the… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
Cryptography has generated number theory, algebraic geometry over finite fields, algebra, combinatorics and computers. — Vladimir Arnold Copy Share Image
There's nothing in your life you can't learn from, if you respond with the right attitude. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient. — Colin Maclaurin Copy Share Image
A child in the 4th grade who's just learning algebra is not imperfect. While there may be a child in the 12th… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature.… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
Algebra goes to the heart of the matter at it ignores the casual nature of particular cases. — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
My algebra was relatively poor. I found it very difficult to use equations that substituted numbers - to which I had a… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
By the help of God and with His precious assistance, I say that Algebra is a scientific art. The objects with which… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You need experience, adventure, and explorations more than you need algebra! — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
The mystic must be steadily told,-All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Andrew Hacker argues that algebra and trigonometry and calculus are subjects that almost nobody used after they graduate, and so why should… — Anya Kamenetz Copy Share Image
The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
How can you shorten the subject? That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
“Algebra is the offer made by the devil to the mathematician. The devil says: I will give you this powerful machine, it… — Michael Francis Atiyah Copy Share Image
They have the idea that non-commutative algebra should remind one of commutative algebra, but the former is more sophisticated. I believe that… — Israel Gelfand Copy Share Image
“The symbol is not a mere formality; it is the very essence of algebra. Without the symbol the object is a human… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image