Algebra is like French Pastry: wonderful, but cannot be learned without putting one’s hands to the dough.
in preface to Abstract Algebra, Second Edition (Springer, 2007)
Algebra is like French Pastry: wonderful, but cannot be learned without putting one’s hands to the dough.
Algebra is like the French – it annoys just about everyone it encounters.
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