Algebra Quote by Felix Klein

The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics…

— Carl Jung

“As a student, frustrated by the limitations of conventional mathematics, he invented an entirely new form, the calculus, but then told no-one about it…

— Bill Bryson

Indeed, there is something to be said for the old math when taught by a poorly trained teacher. He can, at least, get across…

— Martin Gardner

Progress is slow partly from mere intellectual inertia. In a subject where there is no agreed procedure for knocking out errors, doctrines have a…

— Joan Robinson

One of the first and foremost duties of the teacher is not to give his students the impression that mathematical problems have little connection…

— George Polya

When, in school, they were teaching algebra, I was studying differential equations at home.

— George Gamow

As professor in the Polytechnic School in Zürich I found myself for the first time obliged to lecture upon the elements of the differential…

— Richard Dedekind

“It is a great mystery to me how the problems of others seem like simple arithmetic while my own appear as complicated as a…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla of professional…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

“I liked maths because it meant solving problems, and these problems were difficult and interesting but there was always a straightforward answer at the…

— Mark Haddon

“Fundamentals build the foundation for all learning, you must understand arithmetic before algebra, and algebra before calculus.”

— David A. Monty

Through algebra you easily arrive at equations, but always to pass therefrom to the elegant constructions and demonstrations which usually result by means of…

— Isaac Newton