Algebra Quote by Paul Halmos

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method, ...

— Paul Halmos

Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state.

— Plato

Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head.

— Carl Sandburg

Applied mathematics will always need pure mathematics just as anteaters will always need ants.

— Paul Halmos

A good stack of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept,and when I want to learn something…

— Paul Halmos

Mathematics is not a deductive science, that's a cliché ... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.

— Paul Halmos

If you are going to learn mathematics, you have to learn it not simply as an abstraction but as it is applied. I always…

— Jean Houston

“It's much easier, after all, to learn mathematics from someone who's made a few mistakes. It's impossible to learn it from someone who always…

— John Lennox

I think the biggest misconception is that everybody has to learn mathematics. That seems to be a complete mistake.

— Freeman Dyson

Why don't we want our children to learn to do mathematics? Is it that we don't trust them, that we think it's too hard?…

— Paul Lockhart

You only learn when you give your whole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathematics,you learn; but when you are…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.

— G. H. Hardy