The phrase "algebraic problem" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a mathematical problem that involves algebraic expressions or equations.
Example: "To solve the algebraic problem, we need to isolate the variable on one side of the equation."
Alternatives: "algebraic equation" or "algebraic challenge".
She compared the challenge to an algebraic problem.
The other day, Mr. Calderon departed from the calculus and precalculus instruction in his 11th-grade math class and added an offbeat algebraic problem.
Something similar is going on at Manchester University, where as my colleague Phillip Inman reported last week, economics undergraduates are petitioning their tutors for a syllabus that acknowledges there are other ways to view the world than as a series of algebraic problem sets.
ALMOST everyone describes Alexandra Siegel, the design director for the Michael Kors collection in New York, as a sensitive, detail-oriented person, someone who notices shadows and interesting leaves when walking in the woods and who sometimes spends days in the office concentrating on a design as if it were a difficult algebraic problem.
In the early 80's, he came up with a formula for predicting numbers of alternating-sign matrices, an algebraic problem resulting from work done in 1866 by Charles Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, the author of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland".
Furthermore, a suitable linearization preserves a linear algebraic problem at each time level.
While in Bohemia in 1619, he invented analytic geometry, a method of solving geometric problems algebraically and algebraic problems geometrically.
Negative numbers, or even the number zero, had not yet been invented, and the notation was cumbersome (try doing multiplication with Roman numerals).Medieval Islamic scholars such as Muhammad al-Khwarizmi and Omar Khayyam also worked on algebraic problems (and gave us words such as "algorithm" and indeed "algebra" itself).
Factoring is also a particularly important step in the solution of many algebraic problems.
THE roots of algebra, as John Derbyshire tells us, go back to the ancient world: the Babylonians left cuneiform tablets showing simple algebraic problems.
For in reducing geometrical problems to arithmetical and algebraic problems, the need to appeal to geometrical 'intuition' was removed.
