James M. Barrie Quotes

Whoever thinks algebra is a trick in obtaining unknowns has thought it in vain. No attention should be paid to the fact that algebra and geometry are different in appearance. Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.

I love algebra. Love it.

The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.

Math is my favorite subject. It's the universal language. I like the fact that wherever you go in the whole world, two plus two will still be four.

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

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

Algebra messed up one of those divisions between things that help you make sense of the world and keep it tidy. Letters make words; figures make numbers. They had no business getting tangled up together.

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.

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.

Mathematics is the music of reason.

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

Geometry was the first exciting course I remember.

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was the worst.

Math is one of my favorite subjects.

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.

I found maths very easy, but I still enjoyed discovering things. You have to have the necessary information. For example, what's the difference between the mean and the median? Probability fascinated me. You have to think very carefully about things, which is the way my mind works anyway.

Mathematics is the true language that the universe is written in. They key to understanding the world around us.

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

I use trigonometry all the time.

Maths is the language of science.

The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics...the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word.