Omar Khayyam Quotes

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

Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

Mathematics is written for mathematicians.

To solve math problems, you need to know the basic mathematics before you can start applying it.

I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.

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

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

Fractions, decimals, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, mechanics - these are the steps up the mountain side. How high is one going to get? For me, the pinnacle was Projective Geometry. Who today has even heard of this branch of mathematics?

I think math is exciting, you know.

Symmetrical equations are good in their place, but ' vector ' is a useless survival, or offshoot from quaternions, and has never been of the slightest use to any creature.

My basic mathematics is rather weak, so when some of the theories are broken into equations, I get rather lost.

The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.

Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.

I was always very strong in math, physics and calculus.

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

I was fine with everything except Maths. I was terrible at Maths.

Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.

Mathematics is the music of reason.

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

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

I don't care much for equations myself. This is partly because it is difficult for me to write them down, but mainly because I don't have an intuitive feeling for equations.

No one wants to read a math book.

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.

Plane geometry is sort of the key course where you learn about proving things and abstraction.