When I entered Harvard, my background was mostly combinatorics and algebra. — Maryam Mirzakhani Copy Share Image
Some things that satisfy the rules of algebra can be interesting to mathematicians even though they don't always represent a real situation. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Spoken of the young Archimedes: . . . [he] was as much enchanted by the rudiments of algebra as he would have… — Archimedes Copy Share Image
It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra… — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
Problem solving, and I don't mean algebra, seems to be my life's work. Maybe it's everyone's life's work. — Beverly Cleary 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
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
I was appalled to find that the mathematical notation on which I had been raised failed to fill the needs of the… — Kenneth E. Iverson 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
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
Instead of five hundred thousand average algebra teachers, we need one good algebra teacher. We need that teacher to create software, videotape… — Michael J. Saylor Copy Share Image
Of possible quadruple algebras the one that had seemed to him by far the most beautiful and remarkable was practically identical with… — Benjamin Peirce Copy Share Image
“As to the need of improvement there can be no question whilst the reign of Euclid continues. My own idea of a… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
The poet dreams of the classroom I dreamed I stood up in class And I said aloud: Teacher, Why is algebra important?… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Algebra is but written geometry and geometry is but figured algebra. — Sophie Germain 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 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
The elements of justice are identical with those of algebra. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon 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
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
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
Worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image