About an hour and a half later he was solving junior high level algebraic equations.

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An algebraic equation will never be able to factor in the alchemic talents of the likes of Harold Geneen.

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But to compute an economic model, this theory has to be given concrete form, spelt out in definite algebraic terms.

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The algebraic formulae required to measure performance, representing such obscure factors as the average size of litter items, have been widely lampooned.

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He added that he wanted to see a greater emphasis on logical and mathematical thinking, and that he would like to see algebraic concepts and the beginnings of probability introduced and developed throughout the primary school.

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Mr Weil's advances in algebraic geometry and number theory which in 1994 helped him win the equivalent of the Nobel prize in mathematics, the Kyoto prize in basic science are so abstruse they are inaccessible to the layman.

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