Algebra – It’s Everywhere
Posted in Math is Everywhere on August 25th, 2008 4 Comments »
A good read from the San Francisco Chronicle: Algebra – it’s everywhere by Jill Tucker.
Algebra, says Devlin, is a language, a very precise language written in symbols, and it’s everywhere: in nearly all electronic devices, every statistic and each Internet search engine – and, indeed, in every train leaving Boston.
"You can store information using it. [...]