algebraic

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What I miss most is closing my eyes at night, then opening them and it’s morning, that total submersion, yesterday’s problems wiped away like algebraic equations on a junior-high blackboard.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

And whether expressed in algebraic logic or ancient Greek hymn, its chorus is the same throughout the universe: Be fruitful and multiply.

From Salon • Oct. 22, 2023

With all respect, they need human beings to just sit with them and work through fractions and algebraic equations and all the other operations that make math so beautiful and tricky.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 11, 2023

Indian mathematicians made additional algebraic discoveries and developed what are essentially the modern symbols for each of the decimal digits.

From Scientific American • Aug. 10, 2023

Abstruse calculations, geometric forms and algebraic terms, unusual correlations—all have been used to adorn the silliest drivel.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos