Algebra Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Mathematics is much more than computation with pencil and a paper and getting answers to routine exercises. In fact, it can easily be argued…

— John A. Van de Walle

Calculating does not equal mathematics. It's a subsection of it. In years gone by it was the limiting factor, but computers now allow you…

— Conrad Wolfram

The usefulness of mathematics in furthering the sciences is commonly acknowledged: but outside the ranks of the experts there is little inquiry into its…

— Herbert Turnbull

Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have…

— Plato

How can you shorten the subject? That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how can you…

— Stephen Leacock

Strange as it may sound, the power of mathematics rests on its evasion of all unnecessary thought and on its wonderful saving of mental…

— Ernst Mach

Mathematics is like music. Neither needs to be useful. It is enough that each gives delight to those who seek delight from it.

— Christopher Robin Milne

There's a lot of science in it, and as Slartibartfast [in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] said: 'I am a great fan of…

— Terry Pratchett

Analysis does not owe its really significant successes of the last century to any mysterious use of sqrt(-1), but to the quite natural circumstances…

— Leopold Kronecker

The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it.

— Eugene Wigner

Mathematics is realm altogether, one that is cold, hard, objective, necessary, clear and thus utterly non-human. Nonetheless, it is enormously useful as a means,…

— David Roochnik

The best result of mathematics is to be able to do without it.

— Oliver Heaviside