#algebra

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#always #bad #cannot #common #common sense

Sometimes in studying Ramanujan's work, [George Andrews] said at another time, "I have wondered how much Ramanujan could have done if he had had MACSYMA or SCRATCHPAD or some other symbolic algebra package. ↗

— Robert Kanigel

#computer-algebra-system #history #math #ramanujan #life

Come, let us hasten to a higher plane Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn, Their indices bedecked from one to n Commingled in an endless Markov chain! I'll grant thee random access to my heart, Thou'lt tell me all the constants of thy love; And so we two shall all love's lemmas prove, And in our bound partition never part. 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. - Love and Tensor Algebra ↗

— Stanisław Lem

#love

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. ↗

— Tim Allen

#about #algebra #figure #good #i

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

— Cokie Roberts

#long #prayer #school #taught #will

Friendship is something that gets harder to understand, every damn year of my life.Friendship is like a kind of algebra test that nobody passes. In my worst moods, I think the best you can say is that a friend is anyone you don't despise. ↗

— Gregory David Roberts

#friend #friends #friendship #friendships #trust-friends-betrayal

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

— Tim Allen

#figure #good #i #liar #lies

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic. ↗

— John Ray

#arithmetic #metaphysics

When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course. ↗

— Joan Collins

#algebra #always #arithmetic #best #course

I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there. ↗