Life isn't about algebra and geometry. Learning by making mistakes and not duplicating them is what life is about. — Lindsay Fox Copy Share Image
Dear algebra please stop asking us to find your X. she's never coming back and don't ask Y.. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
You don't learn algebra with your blessed soul. Can't you look at it with your clear simple wits? — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it. — Tommy Hilfiger Copy Share Image
Algebra is but written geometry and geometry is but figured algebra. — Sophie Germain Copy Share Image
The music of Wagner imposes mental tortures that only algebra has the right to inflict. — comte de Saint-Victor Paul Bins Copy Share Image
I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was… — Nathan Kress Copy Share Image
Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers. — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
When I entered Harvard, my background was mostly combinatorics and algebra. — Maryam Mirzakhani Copy Share Image
Everybody needs some inspiration, Everybody needs some motivation, mix it up with some imagination, and use your natural gifts. — Ray Davies Copy Share Image
... The approach of von Neumann and Connes to the use of non-commutative algebra in physics is naive, the situation is much… — Israel Gelfand Copy Share Image
The teaching of the ten thousand states of mind, particularly as one advances further, is done through transmission. This is where we… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The assumption that the square of a unit vector is positive unity leads to an algebra whose characteristic quantities are non-associative. — Cargill Gilston Knott Copy Share Image
Sometimes in studying Ramanujan's work, [George Andrews] said at another time, "I have wondered how much Ramanujan could have done if he… — Robert Kanigel Copy Share Image
The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Computer science needs to be part of the core curriculum - like algebra, biology, physics, or chemistry. We need all schools to… — Brad Feld Copy Share Image
Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
Math just wasn't my favorite. I didn't get how important math is and how it relates to real life. That's why I… — Adam Rodriguez Copy Share Image
When we find ourselves unable to reason (as one often does when presented with, say, a problem in algebra) it is because… — W. W. Sawyer Copy Share Image
The school systems at my childhood had enough money or enough parent involvement that they felt like learning music and songs, and… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
There are two versions of math in the lives of many Americans: the strange and boring subject that they encountered in classrooms… — Jo Boaler Copy Share Image
“Blessed influence of one true loving human soul on another! Not calculable by algebra, not deducible by logic, but mysterious, effectual, mighty… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Why is it that Serge Lange's Linear Algebra, published by no less a Verlag than Springer, ostentatiously displays the sale of a… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
The voice belonged to Mr. Pzyrbovich, an algebra teacher who was always called Mr. P, for obvious reasons. He has a heavy… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The Arab peoples possess an ancient and highly developed civilization that is in many ways more sophisticated than our own. For instance,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Everybody has a nightmare, and everybody apparently has falling dreams, and everybody has the drowning dream, and everybody has certain kinds of… — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
Gel'fand amazed me by talking of mathematics as though it were poetry. He once said about a long paper bristling with formulas… — Dusa McDuff Copy Share Image
The lock-step approach of algebra, geometry, and then more algebra (but rarely any statistics) is still dominant in U. S. schools, but… — Lynn Steen Copy Share Image