Algebra Quote by Rene Thom Download Open image “Algebra is rich in structure but weak in meaning.” — Rene Thom ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Algebra Rich Structure Weak
We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra. — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
'Algebra' roughly translates to 'the system for reconciling disparate parts.' — Terry Moore Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Algebra goes to the heart of the matter at it ignores the casual nature of particular cases. — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
There are many cases of these algebras which may obviously be combined into natural classes, but the consideration of this portion of the subject… — Benjamin Peirce Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Topology is precisely the mathematical discipline that allows the passage from local to global... — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
Catastrophe Theory is-quite likely-the first coherent attempt (since Aristotelian logic) to give a theory on analogy. When narrow-minded scientists object to Catastrophe Theory that… — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
The purely formal language of geometry describes adequately the reality of space. We might say, in this sense, that geometry is successful magic. I… — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
Quantum mechanics, with its leap into statistics, has been a mere palliative for our ignorance — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
The world of ideas is not revealed to us in one stroke; we must both permanently and unceasingly recreate it in our consciousness. — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
“At a time where so many scholars are calculating, is it not desirable that some, who can, dream?” — René Thom Copy Share Image
If one must choose between rigour and meaning, I shall unhesitatingly choose the latter. — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
All models divide naturally...into two a priori parts: one is kinematics, whose aim is to parameterize the forms of the states of the process… — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
The importance of the "New Mathematics" lies mainly in the fact that it has taught us the difference between the disc and the circle. — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
At a time when so many scholars in the world are calculating, is it not desirable that some, who can, dream ? — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as the quadratic… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[On refusing to do nude movie scenes:] There are certain people who should know what you look like naked. I just don't think your… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side; on its… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
No one fully understands spinors. Their algebra is formally understood but their general significance is mysterious. In some sense they describe the 'square root'… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
Cryptography has generated number theory, algebraic geometry over finite fields, algebra, combinatorics and computers. — Vladimir Arnold Copy Share Image
There's nothing in your life you can't learn from, if you respond with the right attitude. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient. — Colin Maclaurin Copy Share Image
A child in the 4th grade who's just learning algebra is not imperfect. While there may be a child in the 12th grade who's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting,… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image