Algebra Quote by Cargill Gilston Knott

Algebras are geometric facts which are proved.

— Omar Khayyam

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

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

“Algebra is numbers forgetting why they’re letters.”

— Jarod Kintz

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

Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.

— Omar Khayyam

Men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite , which…

— Arthur Koestler

Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.

— Larry Wall

Symmetrical equations are good in their place, but ' vector ' is a useless survival, or offshoot from quaternions, and has never been of…

— Lord Kelvin

Though determinants and matrices received a great deal of attention in the nineteenth century and thousands of papers were written on these subjects, they…

— Morris Kline

In geometric and physical applications, it always turns out that a quantity is characterized not only by its tensor order, but also by symmetry.

— Hermann Weyl