"Grandad taught me that the alien signs and……" — Mal Peet

Grandad taught me that the alien signs and symbols of algebraic equations… - Mal Peet

"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, and you could approach them from different directions, look at them from different ways, stand them on their heads. You could take them apart and put them back together in a variety of shapes, like Legos. I stopped being scared of them."

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In studying mathematics or simply using a mathematical principle, if we get the wrong answer in sort of algebraic equation,… — Eric Butterworth
Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors… — Alfred North Whitehead
The algebraic sum of all the transformations occurring in a cyclical process can only be positive, or, as an extreme… — Rudolf Clausius
Algebraic geometry seems to have acquired the reputation of being esoteric, exclusive, and very abstract, with adherents who are secretly… — David Mumford
The reader will find no figures in this work. The methods which I set forth do not require either constructions… — Joseph-Louis Lagrange
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