Algebra Quote by Omar Khayyam

Algebras are geometric facts which are proved.

— Omar Khayyam

Whoever thinks algebra is a trick in obtaining unknowns has thought it in vain. No attention should be paid to the fact that algebra…

— Omar Khayyam

Algebra is nothing more than geometry, in words; geometry is nothing more than algebra, in pictures.

— Sophie Germain

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

— John Ray

Algebra is but written geometry and geometry is but figured algebra.

— Sophie Germain

By the help of God and with His precious assistance, I say that Algebra is a scientific art. The objects with which it deals…

— Omar Khayyam

As for methods I have sought to give them all the rigour that one requires in geometry, so as never to have recourse to…

— Augustin-Louis Cauchy

Algebra is the intellectual instrument which has been created for rendering clear the quantitative aspects of the world.

— Alfred North Whitehead

The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in the progress…

— John Stuart Mill

What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?

— Anonymous

There are many cases of these algebras which may obviously be combined into natural classes, but the consideration of this portion of the subject…

— Benjamin Peirce

The ordinary operations of algebra suffice to resolve problems in the theory of curves.

— Joseph-Louis Lagrange