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algebra

[al-juh-bruh] / ˈæl dʒə brə /


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“If your daughter needs tutoring in algebra, you can probably find someone cheaper than Albert Einstein,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal May 29, 2026

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

From BBC Apr. 1, 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

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

We worked on algebra until four o’clock and then made posters for about half an hour, using school supplies from the church.

From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez

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

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

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

Damp smelling books were here and there among the ruins, histories, arithmetics, algebras and grammars.

From Pee-Wee Harris on the Trail by Percy Keese Fitzhugh




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