Algebra Quote by Ivor Grattan-Guinness

“I think actually if you take the analogy with other areas of engineering, and increasingly of science and even mathematics, you can see people…

— C.A.R. Hoare

Poor teaching leads to the inevitable idea that the subject (mathematics) is only adapted to peculiar minds, when it is the one universal science…

— Henry John Stephen Smith

Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education.

— Richard Livingstone

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

— John Ray

Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.

— Jean Piaget

Besides the mathematical arts there is no infallible knowledge, except that it be borrowed from them.

— Robert Recorde

My basic mathematics is rather weak, so when some of the theories are broken into equations, I get rather lost.

— Daphne Guinness

Axiomatization is what one does last, it's rubbish. It's the hygiene of mathematics, axiomatization.

— Serge Lang

Mathematics are one of the fundamentaries of educationalizing our youth.

— George W. Bush

“the process of learning a theory depends upon the study of applications, including practice problem-solving both with a pencil and paper and with instruments…

— Thomas S. Kuhn

Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as soon as…

— Hermann Weyl

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

— David A. Monty