Field with unknowns

Usage examples of algebra.

In both cases, the rotations could be treated algebraically, and the traditional way to get a handle on this was to make use of a set of matrices of complex numbers whose relationships mimicked the algebra in question.

The group of the visualizers, who thought in geometrical terms, like the ancient Greeks, and the group of the nonvisualizers who preferred algebra and imageless abstractions.

It treats of partnership in agriculture, the Mezzadria system still prevalent in Tuscany and in other parts of Italy, of the value of money, of the strange properties of certain numbers, and gives the first simple rules of Algebra to serve as stepping-stones to the higher mathematics.

Since she foundered on anything beyond algebra, she relied on her tapas to solve complex problems.

Lucy realizes that this stranger is Mison Reed, whom she used to sit next to in algebra.

I meant the crack facetiously, but I heard him doing the recursive algebra in his head at the other end.

He was a theoretical thaumaturgist who worked with the higher and more esoteric forms of the subjective algebrae, leaving it to others to test his theories in practice.

Little in mathematics beyond the elementary level of calculus of variations, and nothing at all about Banach algebra or Riemannian manifolds.

In turn you must learn arithmetic, Euclidian geometry, high school algebra, differential and integral calculus, ordinary and partial differential equations, vector calculus, certain special functions of mathematical physics.

Europe by the great mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci, the Arabic numerals and algebra that revolutionized our way of thought?

These were the kids who, in the midst of earth science, gym, algebra, cafeteria stench would manage to knock out a handwritten thirty-page story or a collection of poems, drop it on his desk at the end of class and split.

The Sankhya philosophy is a regular system of metaphysics, to be studied as one would study algebra.

Using his known or assumed plaintext values, the cryptanalyst sets up equations in which the displacements of the several rotors constitute the unknowns, and then, using higher algebra, solves the equations for them.

Janice gives him no space of secrecy in which blood can gather as it did behind his fly in ninth-grade algebra sitting beside Lotty Bingaman who in raising her hand to show she had the answers showed him wisps of armpit hair and pressed the thin cotton of her blouse tighter against the elastic trusswork of her bra, so its salmon color strained through.

Society was ruled by narrow-minded, profoundly incurious people, predatory businessmen, dull squires, bishops, politicians who could quote Horace but had never heard of algebra.