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[al-juh-bruh] / ˈæl dʒə brə /


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Najya earned strong grades, took honors classes and believed she knew algebra.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

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

"There's a terrible algebra situation going on here of all of these things will equal 'bye-bye'."

From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2026

Then he’d enrolled me in two more challenging courses—college algebra, which terrified me, and biology, which didn’t but only because I didn’t know what it was.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

Jones’s speciality, operator algebras, provided a powerful tool in the study of knots.

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

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

BH: Anyway, that started me on the different algebras.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 5, 2013

At present it would have but little force with respect to the better class of algebras.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by David Eugene Smith




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