Algebra Quote by Vladimir Arnold

I chose to deal with the science of cryptography. Cryptography began in mathematics. Codes were developed, even from Caesar's time, based on number theory…

— Anonymous

All mathematics is divided into three parts: cryptography (paid for by CIA, KGB and the like), hydrodynamics (supported by manufacturers of atomic submarines) and…

— Vladimir Arnold

Transcendental [numbers], They transcend the power of algebraic methods.

— Leonhard Euler

“Every weapon of cryptanalytic science—which in the stratospheric realm of this solution drew heavily upon mathematics, using group theory, congruences, Poisson distributions—was thrown into…

— David Kahn

“The number system we use today—the Hindu-Arabic system—was developed in India and seems to have been completed by around 700 CE. Indian mathematicians made…

— Keith J. Devlin

The theory of numbers, more than any other branch of mathematics, began by being an experimental science. Its most famous theorems have all been…

— G. H. Hardy

It seems to me there's this grand mathematical world out there, and I am wandering through it and discovering fascinating phenomena that often totally…

— George Andrews

“In the 1970s and 1980s, though, mathematicians at Stanford and MIT made a series of breakthroughs that made it possible, for the first time,…

— Nathaniel Popper

“But of any science of cryptanalysis, there was nothing. Only cryptography existed. And therefore cryptology, which involves both cryptography and cryptanalysis, had not yet…

— David Kahn

“The technique was at least moderately well known, for Ibn Khaldūn wrote in The Muqaddimah: “Occasionally, skillful secretaries, though not the first to invent…

— David Kahn

“Arithmetic and number theory study patterns of number and counting. Geometry studies patterns of shape. Calculus allows us to handle patterns of motion. Logic…

— Keith Devlin

I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.

— G. H. Hardy