algebra
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He taught algebra at a Boyle Heights middle school and a Watts high school before joining Hackman in 2018, where he’s worked on multibillion-dollar projects transforming legacy studio lots for one of Hollywood’s largest landlords.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
“I wasn’t that crazy about algebra, and I did not fully master it, but geometry was something that just came naturally to me,” she wrote in a 2020 memoir, “It Began With a Dream.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
As a 15-year-old in algebra class, he wrote the song “Kryptonite,” drumming out the beat on his desk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2026
Roughly one in eight freshmen lack rudimentary high-school math skills, defined as geometry, algebra and algebra 2.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025
I told him I was coming to Idaho for Thanksgiving and I needed an algebra tutor.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
In 1984, while working at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Jones came across some formulas that his nested algebras satisfied.
From Nature ● Sep. 28, 2020
Jones’s speciality, operator algebras, provided a powerful tool in the study of knots.
From Nature ● Sep. 28, 2020
One result, now known as the Jones index theorem, showed that when these algebras are nested within one another, their relative sizes conform to precise but enigmatic numerical ratios.
From Nature ● Sep. 28, 2020
We were looking at algebras; we were looking at general relativity; we were looking at pre-space.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 5, 2013
Somehow he had known his boys better when they had all muddled together as one family, and algebras lay strewn upon the drawing room chairs.
From The Longest Journey by Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan)
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