Algebra Quote by Jean-Victor Poncelet

I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for,…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of…

— David Hilbert

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

— Sophie Germain

Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.

— Shakuntala Devi

Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In…

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

The best result of mathematics is to be able to do without it.

— Oliver Heaviside

The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry…

— Henry David Thoreau

I have no fault to find with those who teach geometry. That science is the only one which has not produced sects; it is…

— Frederick The Great

Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.

— Stephen Hawking

Geometry is beautifully logical, and it teaches you how to think and prove that things are so, step by step by step. Proofs are…

— Marilyn vos Savant

Mathematics is not arithmetic. Though mathematics may have arisen from the practices of counting and measuring it really deals with logical reasoning in which…

— Christopher Zeeman

We can... treat only the geometrical aspects of mathematics and shall be satisfied in having shown that there is no problem of the truth…

— Hans Reichenbach