algebra
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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
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
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
She brightens and says, “Great! I think that’s great, sweetie. You’ll master that algebra in no time, I’m certain of it. My smart girl.”
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
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
Meanwhile, Gell-Mann continued pursuing the theory of quarks, refining his ideas about current algebras.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 6, 2019
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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