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algebra

[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

The prizes were meant to draw attention to how little we knew about math—no matter how many of us have suffered through high-school algebra.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

In 2013, UC approved a data science course, submitted by Los Angeles Unified, to broaden math options, and by 2020 allowed such courses to substitute for advanced algebra.

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

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

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

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

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

From Scientific American ● Nov. 5, 2013

There were also a few arithmetics and algebras, a historical novel or two, and the inevitable copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin, whose pages I had freely moistened with my tears.

From The Story of a Pioneer by Anna Howard Shaw


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