The fools think I
The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry. Ernest Hemingway
Algebra
People want sex education
People want sex education out of the schools. They believe sex education causes promiscuity. Hey, I took algebra, but I never do math. Elayne Boosler
Algebra goes to the
Algebra goes to the heart of the matter at it ignores the casual nature of particular cases. Edward Charles Titchmarsh
It is hard to
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. E. W. Howe
The teaching of the
The teaching of the ten thousand states of mind, particularly as one advances further, is done through transmission. This is where we differ from teaching algebra or calculus. Frederick Lenz
A child in the
A child in the 4th grade who’s just learning algebra is not imperfect. While there may be a child in the 12th grade who’s much better, the child who’s learning is not imperfect. Frederick Lenz
Emotions are far harder
Emotions are far harder things to understand than algebra and geometry, yet we spend hours in elucidating mathematics and expect such a problem as that of human relationships to solve itself. Frances G. Wickes
In real life, I
In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. Fran Lebowitz
The teacher manages to
The teacher manages to get along still with the cumbersome algebraic analysis, in spite of its difficulties and imperfections, and avoids the smooth infinitesimal calculus, although the eighteenth century shyness toward it had long lost all point. Felix Klein
Gel\’fand amazed me by
Gel’fand amazed me by talking of mathematics as though it were poetry. He once said about a long paper bristling with formulas that it contained the vague beginnings of an idea which could only hint at and which he had never managed to bring out more clearly. I had always thought of mathematics as being … Read more