Algebraic Expressions Quotes

I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.

The arithmetical symbols are written diagrams and the geometrical figures are graphic formulas.

I'm no mathematician, so I'm stuck with the graphic representations.

My algebra was relatively poor. I found it very difficult to use equations that substituted numbers - to which I had a synesthetic and emotional response - for letters, to which I had none. It was because of this that I decided not to continue math at Advanced level, but chose to study history, French and German instead.

By the help of God and with His precious assistance, I say that Algebra is a scientific art. The objects with which it deals are absolute numbers and measurable quantities which, though themselves unknown, are related to "things" which are known, whereby the determination of the unknown quantities is possible.

Besides language and music, mathematics is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind.

Algebra applies to the clouds.

An ounce of algebra is worth of a ton of verbal argument.

Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language.

Some things that satisfy the rules of algebra can be interesting to mathematicians even though they don't always represent a real situation.

The most important thing in arithmetic is not the shapes of the numbers but the reality living in them. This living reality has much more meaning for the spiritual world than what lives in reading and writing.

I would advise you, Sir, to study algebra, if you are not an adept already in it: your head would get less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbours about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.

I love algebra. Love it.

Students shy away from Maths, but in reality Maths is the best friend of man.

What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?

Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?