[Bobboau]

actually, yeah it is. the trick is to put stuff into a form where that is easy.

[Colonol Dekker]

Algebra really is just rearranging stuff. Math is just just addition, subtraction, division and multiplication.
 
Satan is just misunderstood. Algebra made him that way.

[Spicious]

If only we could cut people who don't believe in advanced mathematics off from technology dependent on advanced mathematics.

[watsisname]

There are people who don't believe in advanced mathmatics?  I know plenty of people who don't like/understand/use it, but to not believe in it?

[Spicious]

There seem to be people here insisting that algebra is a subset of "rearranging stuff."

[CP5670]

This is what mathematicians call algebra, and it has nothing to do with solving equations or rearranging stuff. There is also a type of object called an algebra, as in a singular noun, that is studied in this field.

[Mongoose]

This is what mathematicians call algebra, and it has nothing to do with solving equations or rearranging stuff. There is also a type of object called an algebra, as in a singular noun, that is studied in this field.

I think my mom listed that as the only course she had to re-take in college for her mathematics degree.  I don't think she was a fan.