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[al-juh-bruh] / ˈæl dʒə brə /


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In 2013, UC approved a data science course, submitted by Los Angeles Unified, to broaden math options, and by 2020 allowed such courses to substitute for advanced algebra.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

“If your daughter needs tutoring in algebra, you can probably find someone cheaper than Albert Einstein,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal May 29, 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

It's amazing what you can find to argue about when it comes to algebra.

From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins

Jones’s main focus continued to be Von Neumann algebras and their connections to other fields.

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

At present it would have but little force with respect to the better class of algebras.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Smith, David Eugene




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