algebra

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

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

Roughly one in eight freshmen lack rudimentary high-school math skills, defined as geometry, algebra and algebra 2.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025

I have algebra II/trig; Fiona’s down the wing in pre-calculus.

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen

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

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

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