Algebra Quote by Marvin Minsky

I remember having this vague idea that what mathematicians did was that some authority, someone, gave them problems to solve, and they just sort…

— Terence Tao

“He calculated the number of bricks in the wall, first in twos and then in tens and finally in sixteens. The numbers formed up…

— Terry Pratchett

“Programming was very different from mathematics, as it was far more creative. In math, there was one right answer, and you worked at a…

— B.V. Larson

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

— George Gamow

At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read…

— John Pople

Pascal Wager invented the calculator and he also said you can apply mathematics to faith in God so I thought that was pretty interesting.

— Crystal Renn

I still remember the realization in college at Flinders University in Australia that mathematics was not just an abstract game of symbols but could…

— Terence Tao

My dad is a mathematician; I think we both have that problem-solving, looking-for-patterns way of thinking.

— Michaela Watkins

I love algebra. Love it.

— Ken Cuccinelli

I think it goes back to my high school days. In computer class, the first assignment was to write a program to print the…

— Kevin Mitnick

My older brother was the person who got me interested in science in general. He used to tell me what he learned in school.…

— Maryam Mirzakhani

The first programming assignment I had in high school was to find the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I thought it would be cooler…

— Kevin Mitnick