algebra
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He started popping algebra questions into the search bar to quickly finish off his daily schoolwork.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
In the past few months, I’ve been tracking the Move 37s in math so closely that I might as well be the Journal’s algebra correspondent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
He taught algebra at a Boyle Heights middle school and a Watts high school before joining Hackman in 2018, where he’s worked on multibillion-dollar projects transforming legacy studio lots for one of Hollywood’s largest landlords.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
"There's a terrible algebra situation going on here of all of these things will equal 'bye-bye'."
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2026
It’s the famous quadratic formula, which is the crowning achievement of high-school algebra class.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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
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
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