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  1. noun A branch of mathematics in which symbols, usually letters of the alphabet, represent numbers or members of a specified set and are used to represent quantities and to express general relationships that hold for all members of the set.
  2. noun A set together with a pair of binary operations defined on the set. Usually, the set and the operations include an identity element, and the operations are commutative or associative.

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  • Certain of our own words own patronymity from the Arabic languages—words such as algebra, alcohol, zenith, nadir, etc. These show clearly that the language did influence early intellectual European culture in no small degree. —  Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman
  • I have found however that at least in the introductory chapters of the current geometry, texts demand only a rudimentary knowledge of algebra which is mainly solving simple equations.
  • OrangeMath: Supports research in algebra, including algebraic structures, general algebra, and linear algebra; number theory, including algebraic, analytic number theory, arithmetic geometry, quadratic forms, and automorphic forms; combinatorics, … Read more —  Feeds4all documents in category 'SEO'
  • I came across the following statement while reading Murphy's book (Theorem 1.3.1): "If is a proper ideal in a Banach algebra, then is also proper." —  Feeds4all documents in category 'SEO'
  • Joanne: Once you have a graph algebra, you can play the little trick of deriving a logic / query language from the algebra (monad). —  Feeds4all documents in category 'SEO'
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  1. Middle English, bone-setting, and Italian, algebra, both from Medieval Latin, from Arabic al-jabr (wa-l-muqābala), the restoration (and the compensation), addition (and subtraction) : al-, the + jabr, bone-setting, restoration (from jabara, to set (bones), force, restore; see gpr in Semitic roots).

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  1. Early modern English algeber, from French algebre (now algèbre); the present English form, like D. G. Swedish Danish algebra, Russian algebra, Polish algiebra, etc., follows Italian Provencal Spanish Portuguese algebra, from Middle Latin algebra, bone-setting, algebra, from Arabic aljabr, al-jebr (later Persian al-jabr), the redintegration or reunion of broken parts, setting bones, reducing fractions to integers, hence 'ilm al-jabr wa'l muqābalah, i. e., ‘the science of redintegration and equation (comparison),’ algebra (later Persian al-jabr wa'l muqābalah, Hindustani jabr o muqābala, algebra): 'ilm, 'ulm, science, from 'alama, know (cf. alem, alim, almah); al, the; jabr, redintegration, consolidation, from jabara, redintegrate, reunite, consolidate (= Hebrew gābar, make strong); wa, and; 'l for al, the; muqābalah, comparison, collation, from qābala, confront, compare, collate: see cabala. The full Arabic name is reflected in Middle Latin “ludus algebræ almuegrabalæque” (13th century), and in early modern English “algiebar and almachabel” (Dee, Math. Præfeminine, 6, adjective d. 1570), and the second part in Middle Latin almucabala, almacabala, algebra.
 

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