Quotes About Algebra

A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.

It is quite simple. He proves by algebra that Hamlet's grandson is Shakespeare's grandfather and that he himself is the ghost of his own father.

He proves by algebra that Shakespeare's ghost is Hamlet's grandfather.

I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.

Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.

He turned out to be good in geometry, but he never mastered the use of equations or the rudimentary algebra that existed at the time.

So with nothing to do but algebra, Vlad settled down in front of the television with controller in hand.

Quaternions came from Hamilton after his really good work had been done, and though beautifully ingenious, have been an unmixed evil to those who have touched them in any way.

differentiation is the adjoint of the boundary operation.

starting from any topological space, we construct an algebraic object, in this case a group. If two spaces are homeomorphic, then their fundamental groups (and higher homotopy groups) must be isomorphic. This is richer than the original idea of just measuring the number of holes, since a group contains more information than just a number.

the kernel of a homomorphism is closed under addition, and also under multiplication by any element of the ring. These two properties define the notion of an ideal.

An algebraic integer of degree two is simply a root of a quadratic polynomial of the form X2 + aX + b with a, b ordinary integers.

there are only four units in the ring R-1 of Gaussian integers, namely ±1 and ±i; multiplication by any of these units effects a symmetry of the infinite square tiling

Fundamental to understanding the arithmetic of Rd is the following question: which ordinary prime numbers p are irreducible elements of Rd and which ones factorize as products of irreducible elements in Rd? We will see shortly that if a prime number does factorize in Rd, it must be expressible as the product of precisely two irreducible factors.

Mathematicians among my readers do not need to be informed that . . . is the algebraical sign representing a blend of wheeze, croak, and hiccough.

At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book.

It took 24 years for me to harness my autistic traits into something useful, and I have grown to regard them as a kind of superpower. Cooking, to me, is akin to algebra, and my mind a pocket calculator.

the education of the young gentlemen aboard is almost all a matter of trigonometry: even of algebra, Heaven preserve us.

The voice belonged to Mr. Pzyrbovich, an algebra teacher who was always called Mr. P, for obvious reasons. He has a heavy accent, which a lot of kids said made him hard to understand, although to be fair some of these kids would have never understood algebra anyway.

In speaking of arithmetic (algebra, analysis) as a part of logic I mean to imply that I consider the number-concept entirely independent of the notions or intuitions of space and time, that I consider it an immediate result from the laws of thought.

As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.

If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing.

From a child, I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music, painting, flowers, and the sciences, Algebra being one of my favorite studies.

Algebra, like laudanum, deadens pain, Fritz wrote.