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A century of advancing mathematics /
"The MAA [Mathematical Association of America] was founded in 1915 to serve as a home for The American Mathematical Monthly. The mission of the Association--to advance mathematics, especially at the collegiate level--has, however, always been larger than merely publishing world-class mathematic...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, DC :
Mathematical Association of America,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Spectrum,
v. 81 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The hyperbolic revolution: from topology to geometry, and back / Francis Bonahon
- A century of complex dynamics / Daniel Alexander and Robert L. Devaney
- Map-coloring problems / Robin Wilson
- Six milestones in geometry / Frank Morgan
- Defying God: the Stanley-Wilf Conjecture, Stanley-Wilf Limits, and a two-generation explosion of combinatorics / Eric S. Egge
- What is the best approach to counting primes? / Andrew Granville
- A century of elliptic curves / Joseph H. Silverman
- The Mathematical Association of America: its first 100 years / David E. Zitarelli
- The stratification of the American mathematical community: the Mathematical Association of America and the American Mathematical Society, 1915-1925 / Karen Hunger Parshall
- Time and place: sustaining the American mathematical community / Della Dumbaugh
- Abstract (modern) algebra in America 1870-1950: a brief account / Israel Kleiner
- The history of the undergraduate program in mathematics in the United States / Alan Tucker
- Inquiry-based learning through the life of the MAA / Michael Starbird
- A passport to pleasure / Bob Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan
- Strength in numbers: broadening the view of the mathematics major / Rhonda Hughes
- A history of undergraduate research in mathematics / Joseph A. Gallian
- The calculus reform movement: a personal account / Paul Zorn
- Introducing e[superscript]x / Gilbert Strang
- Computational experiences in the pre-electronic days / Philip J. Davis
- A century of visualization: one geometer's view / Thomas F. Banchoff
- The future of mathematics: 1965-2065 / Jonathan M. Borwein
- Philosophy of mathematics: what has happened since Gödel's results? / Bonnie Gold
- Twelve classics people who love mathematics should know; or, "What do you mean, you haven't read E.T. Bell?" / Gerald L. Alexanderson
- The dramatic life of mathematics: a centennial history of the intersection of mathematics and theater in a prologue, three acts, and an epilogue / Stephen D. Abbott
- 2007: the year of Euler / William Dunham
- The Putnam Competition: origin, lore, structure / Leonard F. Klosinski
- Getting involved with MAA: a path less traveled / Ezra "Bud" Brown
- Henry L. Alder / Donald J. Albers and Gerald L. Alexanderson
- Lida K. Barrett / Kenneth A. Ross
- Ralph P. Boas / Daniel Zelinsky
- Leonard Gillman
- Reminiscences / Martha J. Siegel
- Paul Halmos: no apologies / John Ewing
- Ivan Niven / Kenneth A. Ross
- George Pólya and the MAA / Gerald L. Alexanderson.