When I went into the seminary, I was one of those victims of New Math and had not had Algebra I and had no idea what we were doing in New Math in the ninth grade. But when I went into the seminary, they had gone the traditional route and taught first-year algebra.
We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.
Only Numbers. Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way.
Mathematicians always like a deceptively difficult problem.
One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.
Abel has left mathematicians something to keep them busy for five hundred years.
I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was the worst.
When, in school, they were teaching algebra, I was studying differential equations at home.
I've taught statistics, math courses and what I've found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you'll have one group of kids doing well.
Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone who seriously applied himself would achieve a measure of success.
Cancel me not - for what then shall remain? Abscissas, some mantissas, modules, modes, A root or two, a torus and a node: The inverse of my verse, a null domain.
This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking.
...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as the quadratic equation and the use of logarithms are often of value in ordinary cases: but all beyond these is but a luxury; a delicious luxury indeed; but not be in indulged in by one who is to have a profession to follow for his subsistence.
Some formulas are too complex and I don't want anything to do with them.
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.
Transcendental [numbers], They transcend the power of algebraic methods.
I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it.
... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).
It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.
Logarithmic plots are a device of the devil.
Without mathematics, there's nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.
I can see that, without being excited, mathematics can look pointless and cold.
Math just wasn't my favorite. I didn't get how important math is and how it relates to real life. That's why I think I was turned off to it. Once I got down arithmetic and a little bit of algebra, I think I checked out. As I've gotten older, I think there's a lot more relation to math. English was my favorite subject.
I deliberately and consciously give preference to a dramatic, mythological way of thinking and speaking, because this is not only more expressive but also more exact than an abstract scientific terminology, which is wont to toy with the notion that its theoretic formulations may one fine day be resolved into algebraic equations.
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.
