Algebra Quotes

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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

Picture of Fran Lebowitz — Fran Lebowitz

Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Roy...

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Picture of James Joseph Sylvester — James Joseph Sylvester

Mathematicians call it “the arithmetic of congruences.” You can think of it as clock arithmetic. Tem...

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Picture of John Derbyshire — John DerbyshirePrime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics

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Art is fire plus algebra.

Picture of Jorge Luis Borges — Jorge Luis Borges