algebra
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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
Boole translated logic into algebra—with an algebra of logic, or Boolean algebra—transforming logic from a philosophical, rule-based system into a mathematical, symbolic one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
How could anyone concentrate on geometry or algebra after seeing the beautiful face of that cub?
From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins
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 speciality, operator algebras, provided a powerful tool in the study of knots.
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
Meanwhile, Gell-Mann continued pursuing the theory of quarks, refining his ideas about current algebras.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 6, 2019
Somehow he had known his boys better when they had all muddled together as one family, and algebras lay strewn upon the drawing room chairs.
From The Longest Journey by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster
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