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• ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient.

  Colin Maclaurin

  Purpose, Ontology, Logic

  Colin MacLaurin (1756). “A Treatise of Algebra, in Three Parts: Containing I. The Fundamental Rules and Operations; II. The Composition and Resolution of Equations of All Degrees, and the Different Affections of Their Roots; III. The Application of Algebra and Geometry to Each Other. To which is Added an Appendix Concerning the General Properties of Geometrical Lines”, p.1

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• Everytime I think I want to be young again, I remember algebra and physics.

  Ruth Brown

  Thinking, Want, Remember

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• In fact, Gentlemen, no geometry without arithmetic, no mechanics without geometry... you cannot count upon success, if your mind is not sufficiently exercised on the forms and demonstrations of geometry, on the theories and calculations of arithmetic ... In a word, the theory of proportions is for industrial teaching, what algebra is for the most elevated mathematical teaching.

  Jean-Victor Poncelet

  Success, Teaching, Science

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• Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.

  Susan Sontag

  Cancer, Race, Government

  "What's Happening in America" (1966)

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• 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.

  Mal Peet

  Numbers, Tangled, Together

  Mal Peet (2006). “Tamar”, Walker Books Limited

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• 'Algebra' roughly translates to 'the system for reconciling disparate parts.'

  Terry Moore

  Motivation, Inspiration, Translate

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• The music of Wagner imposes mental tortures that only algebra has the right to inflict.

  Paul Bins, comte de Saint-Victor

  Music, Torture, Wagner

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• Algebra is rich in structure but weak in meaning.

  Rene Thom

  Rich, Weak, Structure

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• Algebra reverses the relative importance of the factors in ordinary language. It is essentially a written language, and it endeavors to exemplify in its written structures the patterns which it is its purpose to convey. The pattern of the marks on paper is a particular instance of the pattern to be conveyed to thought. The algebraic method is our best approach to the expression of necessity, by reason of its reduction of accident to the ghostlike character of the real variable.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Real, Character, Math

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• Cryptography has generated number theory, algebraic geometry over finite fields, algebra, combinatorics and computers.

  Vladimir Arnold

  Numbers, Fields, Cryptography

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• Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Art, Moving, Oil

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.11, Macmillan

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• There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches, and once these laws are learned and obeyed by anyone, that person will get rich with mathematical certainty.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Law, Riches, Arithmetic

  Wallace D. Wattles, Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Louis M. Grafe, N. H. Moos, John McDonald “Get Rich In Spite of Yourself Collection - An "If You Can Count to Four..." Reference”, Lulu.com

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• Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side; on its clear side it is tinctured with algebra, on its luminous side with poetry.

  Victor Hugo

  Science, Heaven, Magnificence

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• Friendship is an Algebra test that nobody passes.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Tests

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• Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they're not afraid of wolves.

  Al Yankovic

  Boys, Games, Nuclear

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• It's strange how few of the world's great problems are solved by people who remember their algebra.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Education, People, World

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• ... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).

  Alan Watts

  Banking, Mathematics, Arithmetic

  Alan Watts (2011). “In My Own Way: An Autobiography”, p.43, New World Library

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• Be careful with whom you associate. Loser's rub off!

  Donald Trump

  Motivational, Loser, Be Careful

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• When I was in school, my favorite subject was math. I took algebra and calculus. At an early age I grasped it and understood it quickly. I just enjoyed breaking the codes and solving problems.

  Chris Bosh

  School, Math, Age

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• ... fain would I turn back the clock and devote to French or some other language the hours I spent upon algebra, geometry, and trigonometry, of which not one principle remains with me. Stay! There is one theorem painfully drummed into my head which seems to have inhabited some corner of my brain since that early time: "The square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides!" There it sticks, but what of it, ye gods, what of it?

  Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

  Squares, Two Sides, Brain

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• [Mathematics] is security. Certainty. Truth. Beauty. Insight. Structure. Architecture. I see mathematics, the part of human knowledge that I call mathematics, as one thing - one great, glorious thing. Whether it is differential topology, or functional analysis, or homological algebra, it is all one thing. ... They are intimately interconnected, they are all facets of the same thing. That interconnection, that architecture, is secure truth and is beauty. That's what mathematics is to me.

  Paul Halmos

  Knowledge, Science, Analysis

  "Celebrating 50 Years of Mathematics".

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• I knew how many zeroes there were in a quintillion, but I thought that algebra lived in ponds.

  Gavin Extence

  Ponds

  Gavin Extence (2013). “The Universe versus Alex Woods”, p.73, Hachette UK

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• Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus.

  Stephen Covey

  Victory, Calculus

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.226, Mango Media Inc.

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• I imagine you working on me as an algebra problem, reducing me to fractions, crossing out common denominators, until there's nothing left on the page but a line that says x = whatever it is that is wrong with me.

  Patricia McCormick

  Lines, Pages, Common

  Patricia McCormick (2011). “Cut”, p.61, Scholastic Inc.

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• The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck.

  Charles Dickens

  Blow, Wrecks, Lasts

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.5904, Delphi Classics

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