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
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 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
That night, while I was puzzling over my algebra, Jim stuck his head in my room.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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
Jones’s main focus continued to be Von Neumann algebras and their connections to other fields.
From Nature ● Sep. 28, 2020
We were looking at algebras; we were looking at general relativity; we were looking at pre-space.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 5, 2013
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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