Patissiere puts their hands to a pie crust in a rustic kitchen

Algebra is Like Pastry: Wonderful!

Algebra is like French Pastry: wonderful, but cannot be learned without putting one’s hands to the dough.

Pierre Anton Grillet (1941 – ), algebraist
in preface to Abstract Algebra, Second Edition (Springer, 2007)

 

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