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algebra

[al-juh-bruh] / ˈæl dʒə brə /


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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

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

“I wasn’t that crazy about algebra, and I did not fully master it, but geometry was something that just came naturally to me,” she wrote in a 2020 memoir, “It Began With a Dream.”

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 26, 2026

Yet rather than attribute the recent five-year drop only to the pandemic, you point to the state’s decision in 2013 to stop requiring algebra for all eighth-graders.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 1, 2025

They’re mostly simple algebra or geometry, but they still distract me from the traffic and from thinking about Windy.

From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty

Jones’s speciality, operator algebras, provided a powerful tool in the study of knots.

From Nature Sep. 28, 2020

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

Meanwhile, Gell-Mann continued pursuing the theory of quarks, refining his ideas about current algebras.

From Scientific American Jun. 6, 2019

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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