#algebra

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

Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#around #based #dan #numbers #problems

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic. ↗

— John Ray

#arithmetic #metaphysics

At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book. ↗

— John Pople

#ahead #algebra #book #class #developed

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