Algebra Quote by Michael Atiyah

Whoever thinks algebra is a trick in obtaining unknowns has thought it in vain. No attention should be paid to the fact that algebra…

— Omar Khayyam

Algebras are geometric facts which are proved.

— Omar Khayyam

What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?

— Anonymous

Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.

— Omar Khayyam

There are certainly people who regard √2 as something perfectly obvious but jib at √-1. This is because they think they can visualise the…

— Edward Charles Titchmarsh

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

— Sophie Germain

Algebra messed up one of those divisions between things that help you make sense of the world and keep it tidy. Letters make words;…

— Mal Peet

Some things that satisfy the rules of algebra can be interesting to mathematicians even though they don't always represent a real situation.

— Richard P. Feynman

That this subject [of imaginary magnitudes] has hitherto been considered from the wrong point of view and surrounded by a mysterious obscurity, is to…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Algebraic geometry seems to have acquired the reputation of being esoteric, exclusive, and very abstract, with adherents who are secretly plotting to take over…

— David Mumford

By the help of God and with His precious assistance, I say that Algebra is a scientific art. The objects with which it deals…

— Omar Khayyam

Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplest possible things are imaginary.

— Paul Lockhart