"If there are four equations and only three……" — Talcott Parsons

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• To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their… — Henry David Thoreau
• Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should… — Eric Temple Bell
• I don't see how it's doing society any good to have so many members walking around with vague memories of… — Paul Lockhart
• Grandad taught me that the alien signs and symbols of algebraic equations were not just marks on paper. They were… — Mal Peet
• 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
• ....goal directed self-imposed delay of gratification is perhaps the essence of emotional self-regulation: the ability to deny impulse in the… — Daniel Goleman
• I'm a young guy called 'commutative ring', but I was originally 'the ring of continuous functions on a compact Hausdorff… — Kato
• Every field has its taboos. In algebraic geometry the taboos are (1) writing a draft that can be followed by… — Gian-Carlo Rota

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