algebra
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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
Despite leaving school at a young age and initially finding terms like "decimals" and "algebra" intimidating, Mr Elsom is said to have quite a talent for working with figures.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2025
Feynman even helped him with his algebra homework, he recalled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2025
I went to algebra, my last-period class, feeling confident because I had always done well in math.
From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez
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
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 Smith, David Eugene
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