#algebra

He could not believe that any of them might actually hit somebody. If one did, what a nowhere way to go: killed by accident; slain not as an individual but by sheer statistical probability, by the calculated chance of searching fire, even as he himself might be at any moment. Mathematics! Mathematics! Algebra! Geometry! When 1st and 3d Squads came diving and tumbling back over the tiny crest, Bell was content to throw himself prone, press his cheek to the earth, shut his eyes, and lie there. God, oh, God! Why am I here? Why am I here? After a moment's thought, he decided he better change it to: why are we here. That way, no agency of retribution could exact payment from him for being selfish. ↗

— James Jones

#bell #death #fear #geometry #machine-guns

So what if I don't learn algebra?' 'Someday schools will be open again,' Mom said. 'Things will be normal. You need to do your work now for when that happens.' 'That's never going to happen,' Jon said. 'And even if schools do open up somewhere, they're not going to open up here. There aren't enough people left.' 'We don't know how many people are like us, holed up, making do until times get better.' 'I bet whoever they are, they aren't studying algebra,' Jon said. ↗

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

#apocalyptic #humor #ya #humor

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. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#essays #good #i #loved #mathematics

I failed chemistry. I almost failed algebra. ↗

— Taye Diggs

#almost #chemistry #failed #i

Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense! ↗

— Comte de Lautreamont

#arithmetic #geometry #grandiose #known #luminous

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

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

— Cokie Roberts

#long #prayer #school #taught #will

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

— Billy Connolly

#go #i #know #learn #likely

Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it. ↗

— Tommy Hilfiger

#characters #chinese #could #did #get