Words matter. These are the best Algebra Quotes from famous people such as Tim Allen, Maryam Mirzakhani, Sal Khan, Jack Monroe, Fran Lebowitz, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
When I entered Harvard, my background was mostly combinatorics and algebra.
I grew up with plenty of smart people. They would beat me at chess; they could solve brain teasers before I could, but then they would struggle in algebra. These were incredibly smart people who simply did not have the foundation in math that I had.
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.
Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.
I was the happiest in English class, and algebra was where I cried.
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.
Life isn’t about algebra and geometry. Learning by making mistakes and not duplicating them is what life is about.
Education is not an end to itself. You need to know algebra but also how to navigate the world.
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.
I don’t know why I should have to learn Algebra… I’m never likely to go there.
I think I still like science and art better, but geometry is a big improvement over algebra.
I still remember asking my high school guidance teacher for permission to take a second year of algebra instead of a fifth year of Latin. She looked down her nose at me and sneered, ‘What lady would take mathematics instead of Latin?’
In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and history, and I have always enjoyed that.
I like – I love calculus. I love linear algebra, probability and statistics, that kind of stuff. I just really like that.
I probably dreamt about running off to America or something when I was 16 because it just seemed like I was studying algebra and going, ‘What am I going to use this for?’
Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers.
I like science and mathematics. When I say mathematics, I don’t mean algebra or math in that sense, but the mathematics of things.
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.
Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.
I love algebra. Love it.
In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
Instead of five hundred thousand average algebra teachers, we need one good algebra teacher. We need that teacher to create software, videotape themselves, answer questions, let your computer or the iPad teach algebra… The hallmark of any good technology is that it destroys jobs.
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.
When, in school, they were teaching algebra, I was studying differential equations at home.
The standard high school curriculum traditionally has been focused towards physics and engineering. So calculus, differential equations, and linear algebra have always been the most emphasized, and for good reason – these are very important.
Psychology, unlike chemistry, unlike algebra, unlike literature, is an owner’s manual for your own mind. It’s a guide to life. What could be more important than grounding young people in the scientific information that they need to live happy, healthy, productive lives? To have good relationships?
We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.
When I was in fifth grade, there were many girls who were good at math, but when I was in junior high school, I was taking intermediate algebra and I looked around the class and realized I was the only girl.
I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was the worst.
I really didn’t understand why hackers would want to hack into a classroom. Are they going to learn algebra? Maybe calculus?
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.
I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra.
A lot of times, when kids have problems with algebra or trigonometry, it has nothing to do with the subject matter, has nothing to do with their innate intelligence. It’s just they that they had some gaps in elementary school that they never got to fill in.
It is a curious historical fact that modern quantum mechanics began with two quite different mathematical formulations: the differential equation of Schroedinger and the matrix algebra of Heisenberg. The two apparently dissimilar approaches were proved to be mathematically equivalent.
I taught myself algebra and a little grammar, and somehow I scraped a high enough score on the ACT to be admitted to Brigham Young University, even though I had no formal education.
Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!
It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.
Dr. Karel Culik is an outstanding applied mathematician, a specialist in algebra, logic, computer sciences and mathematical linguistics. In 1965, he visited the linguistics research program at MIT, and we have worked together on several projects since.
