Algebraic Quotes

21 quotes by 20 authors

To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives? - and so all… — Henry David Thoreau
Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without… — Eric Temple Bell
I don't see how it's doing society any good to have so many members walking around with vague memories of algebraic formulas and geometric diagrams… — Paul Lockhart
Grandad taught me that the alien signs and symbols of algebraic equations were not just marks on paper. They were not flat. They were three-dimensional,… — Mal Peet
In studying mathematics or simply using a mathematical principle, if we get the wrong answer in sort of algebraic equation, we do not suddenly feel… — Eric Butterworth
Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors to exemplify in its written… — Alfred North Whitehead
The algebraic sum of all the transformations occurring in a cyclical process can only be positive, or, as an extreme case, equal to nothing. Statement… — Rudolf Clausius
Algebraic geometry seems to have acquired the reputation of being esoteric, exclusive, and very abstract, with adherents who are secretly plotting to take over all… — David Mumford
The reader will find no figures in this work. The methods which I set forth do not require either constructions or geometrical or mechanical reasonings:… — Joseph-Louis Lagrange
....goal directed self-imposed delay of gratification is perhaps the essence of emotional self-regulation: the ability to deny impulse in the service of a goal, whether… — Daniel Goleman
I'm a young guy called 'commutative ring', but I was originally 'the ring of continuous functions on a compact Hausdorff space'. Now I am an… — Kato
Every field has its taboos. In algebraic geometry the taboos are (1) writing a draft that can be followed by anyone but two or three… — Gian-Carlo Rota
The passion between the sexes has appeared in every age to be so nearly the same, that it may always be considered, in algebraic language… — Thomas Malthus
I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to describe, by means of algebraic equations, the… — Friedrich August von Hayek
If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there… — Talcott Parsons
The complexity of economics can be calculated mathematically. Write out the algebraic equation that is the human heart and multiply each unknown by the population… — P.J. O'Rourke
I deliberately and consciously give preference to a dramatic, mythological way of thinking and speaking, because this is not only more expressive but also more… — Carl Jung
Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as two sides of an algebraic equation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The teacher manages to get along still with the cumbersome algebraic analysis, in spite of its difficulties and imperfections, and avoids the smooth infinitesimal calculus,… — Felix Klein
Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who Wrote These Algebraic Quotes

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