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[al-juh-bruh] / ˈæl dʒə brə /


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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

Their product, I CAN Learn, was an interactive, computer-based algebra program.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 23, 2026

So Idle workshopped it — did the algebra, as he described it — and wound up with a new, zingier joke he preferred.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 23, 2026

Yet rather than attribute the recent five-year drop only to the pandemic, you point to the state’s decision in 2013 to stop requiring algebra for all eighth-graders.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 1, 2025

“And this is Teresa. We go to Red Knot together. Told you I always see people from school. Teresa’s in the theater club. We had algebra together.”

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly

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

By the 1970s, Connes had made strides towards a complete classification of particular systems of operators known as Von Neumann algebras.

From Nature Sep. 28, 2020

Jones’s main focus continued to be Von Neumann algebras and their connections to other fields.

From Nature Sep. 28, 2020

Borcherds’ discovery touched off a revolution in pure mathematics, leading to a new field known as generalized Kac-Moody algebras.

From Scientific American Apr. 7, 2015

There were also a few arithmetics and algebras, a historical novel or two, and the inevitable copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin, whose pages I had freely moistened with my tears.

From The Story of a Pioneer by Anna Howard Shaw




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