algebra
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At a selective high school, she failed an algebra exam she expected to ace.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
At my first school, Nashville Prep, we had kids entering fifth grade who knew algebra and others who could barely add.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
In 2023 and 2024, UC’s faculty admissions board reversed that ruling, finding that three of the most popular data science classes were too light on algebra to count.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 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
When I remember the C I got on my last algebra test, it feels like snakes hatching and slithering in my stomach.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
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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
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
Thus the various algebras which have been actually developed have, in the main, definite relations to the structure of the space world of our physical experience.
From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various
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