algebra

Example Sentences

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Boole translated logic into algebra—with an algebra of logic, or Boolean algebra—transforming logic from a philosophical, rule-based system into a mathematical, symbolic one.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

Traveler and I had been texting through morning classes, and with only a few minutes until algebra began, I had my phone under my desk, rereading our messages.

From Literature

“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

“I wish they’d taught me something useful at school, like Sphinx, instead of all that algebra.”

From Literature