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September 2019, Volume 41, Issue 3
- 66-71 Too Many Hats
by Rob Pratt & Stan Wagon & Michael Wiener & Piotr Zieliński - 72-79 Modeling a Hypothetical Zombie Outbreak Can Save Us from Real-World Monsters
by João Paulo A. Mendonça & Leonardo M. V. Teixeira & Fernando Sato & Lohan R. N. Ferreira - 80-81 Humanizing Mathematics and Its Philosophy: Essays Celebrating the 90th Birthday of Reuben HershEdited by Bharath Sriraman
by John J. Watkins - 82-86 Measured Words: Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy by Arielle Saiber
by Raffaele Pisano - 87-88 Weird Math: A Teenage Genius & His Teacher Reveal the Strange Connections Between Math & Everyday Life by David Darling and Agnijo Banerjee
by Christopher S. Brownell - 89-90 Imagine Math 6: Between Culture and Mathematicsedited by Michele Emmer and Marco Abate
by Andrew J. Simoson - 91-92 Women in Mathematics: Celebrating the Centennial of the Mathematical Association of America by Janet L. Beery, Sarah J. Greenwald, Jacqueline A. Jensen-Vallin, and Maura B. Mast (eds.)
by Mary W. Gray - 93-96 Before Voltaire: The French Origins of “Newtonian” Mechanics 1680–1715 by J. B. Shank
by Tony Crilly - 97-97 Non-Centrifugal Mathematics
by Lee Goldstein - 98-98 The Nature of Light
by Robin Wilson & Dr Keith Hannabuss
June 2019, Volume 41, Issue 2
- 1-8 An Experimental Mathematics Approach to the Area Statistic of Parking Functions
by Yukun Yao & Doron Zeilberger - 9-11 The Gömböc Pill
by Gábor Domokos - 12-19 The Intrigues and Delights of Kleinian and Quasi-Fuchsian Limit Sets
by Chris King - 20-26 Cold and Austere Beauty in Harbin, China
by Dirk Huylebrouck - 27-34 One Bad Formula Can Spoil Everything: A Simple Adjustment That Would Improve the UN’s Gender Inequality Index
by Max McDonald & Neal Koblitz - 35-41 Mad Math
by Jim Henle - 42-56 Probability and Kinetic Theory: A Tale of Two Disciplines
by Prakash Gorroochurn - 57-59 Do Androids Dream of Symmetric Sheaves?
by Colin Adams - 60-60 Yet Another Visual Proof that $$\pi ^{e}
by Ananda Mukherjee & Bikash Chakraborty - 61-64 What Is Schur Positivity and How Common Is It?
by Rebecca Patrias - 65-72 On Emmy Noether’s Role in the Relativity Revolution
by David E. Rowe - 73-76 There Is a $$3\times 3$$ 3 × 3 Magic Square of Squares on the Moon—A Lot of Them, Actually
by Christian Woll - 77-77 Annals of Dendrology
by Will Kazez - 78-79 The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing by Martin Davis
by Roman Kossak - 80-81 The Man Who Counted by Malba Tahan
by David Fernández - 82-84 Simplicity: Ideals of Practice in Mathematics and the Arts by Roman Kossak & Philip Ording (eds.)
by Michael Harris - 85-86 A Dingo Ate My Math Book: Mathematics from Down Under by Burkard Polster and Marty Ross
by Tushar Das - 87-87 Arithmetic by Paul Lockhart
by Pamela Gorkin - 88-88 A Villanelle on the Infinitesimal
by Michael J. Leach - 89-89 Correction to: Baseball Retrograde Analysis
by Jerry Butters & Jim Henle
March 2019, Volume 41, Issue 1
- 1-6 A Simple Rederivation of Onsager’s Solution of the 2D Ising Model Using Experimental Mathematics
by Manuel Kauers & Doron Zeilberger - 7-10 Pushing a Rectangle down a Path
by Richard Evan Schwartz - 11-15 On Taking Square Roots
by Daniel W. Stroock - 16-21 Combinatorics Comes to the Rescue: h-Vectors in Commutative Algebra
by A. Y. M. Chin & M. R. Pournaki & S. A. Seyed Fakhari & S. Yassemi - 22-30 The Consistency of Arithmetic
by Timothy Y. Chow - 31-38 Enigmatic Geometric Tattoos of the Butbut of Kalinga, Philippines
by Ma. Louise Antonette N. Las Peñas & Analyn Salvador-Amores - 39-41 The Modern Prometheus
by Colin Adams - 42-50 Is It Disgraceful to Present a Book of Mathematics to a Queen?
by Amirouche Moktefi - 51-55 What Was Lejeune Dirichlet Like?
by Robin Wilson - 56-56 A Visual Proof that $$\pi ^{e}
by Bikash Chakraborty - 57-66 Approaching the History of Mathematics via the Performing Arts: Kepler: A “Renaissance Folk Play” in Verse
by Susan Gerofsky - 67-70 The Universal Aesthetics of Mathematics
by Samuel G. B. Johnson & Stefan Steinerberger - 71-77 Mathematical Treasures from Sid Sackson
by Jim Henle - 78-78 Elegy
by Ruoshi Sun - 79-80 Ode to Numbers by Sarah Glaz
by Emily Grosholz - 81-82 Reverse Mathematics: Proofs from the Inside Out by John Stillwell
by Roman Kossak - 83-86 Fourier Analysis and Hausdorff Dimension by Pertti Mattila
by Alex Iosevich - 87-89 All Sides to an Oval: Properties, Parameters, and Borromini’s Mysterious Construction By Angelo Alessandro Mazzotti
by Roberta Spallone & Marco Vitali - 90-91 Markov Chains and Mixing Times (Second Edition) by David A. Levin and Yuval Peres
by David Aldous
December 2018, Volume 40, Issue 4
- 1-5 Do the Golden State Warriors Have Hot Hands?
by Alon Daks & Nishant Desai & Lisa R. Goldberg - 6-11 Hilbert’s Error?
by Alexander Shen - 12-13 From Symmetry to Monotonicity
by Bernd Kawohl & David Krejčiřík - 14-18 A Four-Vertex Theorem for Frieze Patterns?
by Serge Tabachnikov - 19-22 A Mathematician in Zagreb
by Branimir Dakić & Biserka Kolarec - 23-25 The Great Storm
by Colin Adams - 26-29 The Ins and Outs of Mathematical Explanation
by Mark Colyvan - 30-32 On Growth and Form at 100
by Matthew Jarron - 33-38 Physics in Biology—Has D’Arcy Thompson Been Vindicated?
by Evelyn Fox Keller - 39-61 Are All Fish the Same Shape If You Stretch Them? The Victorian Tale of On Growth and Form
by Stephen Wolfram - 62-64 The Pharmacopoeia Mathematica
by John D. Gibbon - 65-70 Applying Archimedes’s Method to Alternating Sums of Powers
by David Treeby - 71-76 Baseball Retrograde Analysis
by Jerry Butters & Jim Henle - 77-78 Marginal Excuses
by Kay R. Pechenick DeVicci Shultz - 79-85 Saly Ruth Struik, 1894–1993
by Martina Bečvářová - 86-88 A Lady Mathematician in This Strange Universe: Memoirs by Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat
by Mary W. Gray - 89-91 De quadratura arithmetica circuli ellipseos et hyperbolae cujus corollarium est trigonometria sine tabulis by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz edited by Eberhard Knobloch
by Niccolò Guicciardini - 92-93 Problems for Metagrobologists. A Collection of Puzzles with Real Mathematical, Logical or Scientific Content by David Singmaster
by Albrecht Heeffer - 94-96 The Great Formal Machinery Works: Theories of Deduction and Computation at the Origins of the Digital Age by Jan von Plato
by Craig Smoryński - 97-98 Mathematics without Apologies: Portrait of a Problematic Vocation By Michael Harris
by John J. Watkins - 99-99 The Absolute Power of Sports Medicine
by Jane P. Sheldon - 100-100 19th-Century Mathematical Physics
by Robin Wilson
September 2018, Volume 40, Issue 3
- 1-1 Al-Cauchy’s Theorem
by Pedro Manuel Macedo Ribeiro - 2-11 Mathematical Symbolism in a Russian Literary Masterpiece
by Noah Giansiracusa & Anastasia Vasilyeva - 12-17 The End of Statistical Independence: The Story of Bose–Einstein Statistics
by Prakash Gorroochurn - 18-25 A Possible Solution to the Mayan Calendar Enigma
by Thomas Chanier - 26-31 Long Geodesics on Convex Surfaces
by Arseniy Akopyan & Anton Petrunin - 32-36 Why Twelve Tones? The Mathematics of Musical Tuning
by Emily Clader - 37-42 Alternatives to Semitones and Quartertones: Music-Theoretical Suggestions
by Reilly Smethurst - 43-44 An Introduction to the Collected Works
by Colin Adams - 45-50 Rotundus: Triangulations, Chebyshev Polynomials, and Pfaffians
by Charles H. Conley & Valentin Ovsienko - 51-56 What Was Jakob Steiner Like?
by Robin Wilson - 57-62 Burning Man’s Mathematical Underbelly
by Seth Stannard Cottrell - 63-67 Puzzle Ninja Ninja
by Jim Henle - 68-68 Reversibility
by Chandler Davis - 69-71 The Abel Prize 2003–2007. The First Five Years by Helge Holden and Ragni Piene (eds.) and The Abel Prize 2008–2012 by Helge Holden and Ragni Piene (eds.)
by Dierk Schleicher - 72-72 Finding Fibonacci: The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World by Keith Devlin and The Man of Numbers: Fibonacci’s Arithmetic Revolution by Keith Devlin
by Mark Causapin - 73-74 Principes mathématiques de la philosophie naturelle: la traduction française des “Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica” by Isaac Newton and Émilie Du Châtelet edited by Michel Toulmonde
by Osmo Pekonen - 75-76 Émilie du Châtelet’s Institutions physiques. Über die Rolle von Hypothesen und Prinzipien in der Physik. by Andrea Reichenberger
by Clara Carus - 77-78 Das mathematische und naturphilosophische Lernen und Arbeiten der Marquise du Châtelet (1706–1749). Wissenszugänge einer Frau im 18. Jahrhundert By Frauke Böttcher
by Andrea Reichenberger - 79-79 New York Scientific: A Culture of Inquiry, Knowledge, and Learning by István Hargittai and Magdolna Hargittai
by Osmo Pekonen - 80-80 Russia
by Robin Wilson
June 2018, Volume 40, Issue 2
- 1-9 A Bug’s Eye View: The Riemannian Exponential Map on Polyhedral Surfaces
by David Glickenstein - 10-15 Armies of Chess Queens
by Martin F. van Bommel & Katie T. MacEachern - 16-19 Simple Extensions of the Lotka-Volterra Prey-Predator Model
by Mario Bruschi & Francesco Calogero - 20-20 Proof Without Words: The Sum of Squares
by Bikash Chakraborty - 21-29 Bonaventura Cavalieri and Bologna
by Diego L. González & Loris Rabiti & Julyan H. E. Cartwright - 30-32 Gold Rush
by Colin Adams - 33-37 Modified Equations and the Basel Problem
by Mats Vermeeren - 38-44 Emmy’s Time
by Anthony Bonato - 45-49 Mathematicians Who Never Were
by Barbara Pieronkiewicz - 50-54 A Geometric Interpretation of Curvature Inequalities on Hypersurfaces via Ravi Substitutions in the Euclidean Plane
by Bogdan D. Suceavă - 55-63 Equidecomposability of Polyhedra: A Solution of Hilbert’s Third Problem in Kraków before ICM 1900
by Danuta Ciesielska & Krzysztof Ciesielski - 64-66 Soviet Street Mathematics: Landau’s License Plate Game
by Harun Šiljak - 67-75 Mathematics Underfoot: The Formulas That Came to Würzburg from New Haven
by A. J. Bracken - 76-80 The Entertainer
by Jim Henle - 81-81 Snowflake
by Lawrence Mark Lesser - 82-84 Martin Davis on Computability, Computational Logic, and Mathematical Foundations by E. Omodeo and A. Policriti (eds.)
by Jan von Plato - 85-88 A Singular Mathematical Promenade by Étienne Ghys
by Sergei Tabachnikov - 89-90 Abstraction and Infinity by Paolo Mancosu
by Roman Kossak - 91-92 Gifted by Tom Flynn
by Mary W. Gray - 93-97 Leonhard Euler: Mathematical Genius in the Enlightenment by Ronald S. Calinger
by Johan C.-E. Stén - 98-98 19th-Century Algebra
by Robin Wilson
March 2018, Volume 40, Issue 1
- 1-3 The Mathematical Intelligencer Turns Forty!
by Marjorie Senechal - 4-13 The ABCs of Viewing Ringed Planets
by Marc Frantz - 14-17 Does 2 + 3 = 5? In Defence of a Near Absurdity
by Mary Leng - 18-23 Brussels’ Skew Sphere
by Dirk Huylebrouck - 24-25 To the Fields Medal Committee
by Colin Adams - 26-35 The Mathematics of Taffy Pullers
by Jean-Luc Thiffeault - 36-37 Outliers: A Perspective from the Mean
by N. M. Luna - 38-49 Women’s Representation in Mathematics Subfields: Evidence from the arXiv
by Abra Brisbin & Ursula Whitcher - 50-54 Using Kempe Exchanges to Disentangle Kempe Chains
by James A. Tilley - 55-58 A Projective Analogue of Napoleon’s and Varignon’s Theorems
by Quang-Nhat Le - 59-67 On Models and Visualizations of Some Special Quartic Surfaces
by David E. Rowe - 68-72 Meaning to Please
by Jim Henle - 73-78 Integer-Digit Functions: An Example of Math-Art Integration
by Ernesto Estrada - 79-79 Bounding a Sum on a Sleepless Evening (with apologies to Robert Frost)
by R. J. Wolfe - 80-83 4 3 2 1: A Novel by Paul Auster
by Danielle Spencer - 84-85 Calculating the Cosmos: How Mathematics Unveils the Universe by Ian Stewart
by Mauri Valtonen - 86-87 The Proof and the Pudding: What Mathematicians, Cooks, and You Have in Common by Jim Henle
by Pamela Gorkin - 88-89 Recollections of a Jewish Mathematician in Germany by Abraham A. Fraenkel; edited by Jiska Cohen-Mansfield
by James Robert Brown - 90-90 Mathematical Berlin: Science, Sights, and Stories by Iris and Martin Grötschel
by Osmo Pekonen - 91-92 Neumbering
by O.G. Cassani & John Horton Conway - 93-93 Correction to: Neumbering
by O.G. Cassani & John Horton Conway - 94-94 19th-Century Geometry
by Robin Wilson
December 2017, Volume 39, Issue 4
- 1-1 Magical Untangling
by Sophia Healy - 2-8 The Isoperimetric Problem with Density
by Frank Morgan - 9-17 Quiz 1: What Color Was George Washington’s White Horse? The Mathematical Version
by Ulrich Daepp & Pamela Gorkin & Karl Voss - 18-26 Fourier’s Back in Town
by Alain Juhel & Tadeusz Sliwa - 27-29 The Seven Labors of Hercules
by Colin Adams - 30-40 Mathematics on the Chopping Block
by Theodore Kolokolnikov - 41-45 Average Pace and Horizontal Chords
by Keith Burns & Orit Davidovich & Diana Davis - 46-46 Where Are Kolmogorov’s Posthumous Papers?
by Oscar Sheynin - 47-50 Proofs and Guarantees
by James Robert Brown - 51-56 Quadrivium: The Structure of Mathematics as Described in Isidore of Seville’s Etymologies
by Isabel M. Serrano & Lucy H. Odom & Bogdan D. Suceavă - 57-61 When Mathematicians Speak, What Do Poets and Musicians Hear?
by F. Luke Wolcott - 62-65 The Payoff
by Jim Henle - 66-66 A Fallacy Not Assessed by Kahneman and Tversky
by Lawrence M. Lesser - 67-69 Henri Poincaré: Impatient Genius by Ferdinand Verhulst
by Colin Mclarty - 70-71 The Man Who Knew Infinity A film by Matt Brown
by Mary W. Gray - 72-73 Mathematics and the Real World: The Remarkable Role of Evolution in the Making of Mathematics by Zvi Artstein
by Paul Zorn - 74-76 The New Math: A Political History by Christopher J. Phillips
by Sam Williams - 77-80 Die Analysis im Wandel und im Widerstreit. Eine Formierungsgeschichte ihrer Grundbegriffe by Detlef D. Spalt
by Rüdiger Thiele - 81-82 Rigor & Structure by John P. Burgess
by Reuben Hersh - 83-85 Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry by Hidetoshi Fukagawa and Tony Rothman; foreword by Freeman Dyson
by Jean Constant - 86-86 The École Polytechnique
by Robin Wilson
September 2017, Volume 39, Issue 3
- 1-4 Picturing Math: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
by Philip Ording - 5-16 Skeletal Geometric Complexes and Their Symmetries
by Egon Schulte & Asia Ivić Weiss - 17-17 Genie und Wahnsinn
by Manfred Stern - 18-23 Generating Infinite Links as Periodic Tilings of the da Vinci–Dürer Knots
by Blas Herrera & Albert Samper - 24-26 Referee’s Report
by Colin Adams - 27-39 Mathematics and Flamenco: An Unexpected Partnership
by J. M. Díaz-Báñez - 40-45 An Asymptotically Closed Loop of Tetrahedra
by Michael Elgersma & Stan Wagon - 46-52 The Greatest Geometer since the Time of Apollonius
by Jemma Lorenat - 53-55 Leibniz, a Sorb
by D. Huylebrouck & Z. Ognjanovic & L. Radović - 56-60 Ricci Tensors and Wine in Lugo di Romagna and Padova, Italy
by Stefano De Marchi & Giovanni Andreatta - 61-72 Mathematics: Easy and Hard. Why?
by Bernhelm Booß-Bavnbek - 73-76 The Wages of Progress
by Jim Henle - 77-86 Tilting Theory: A Gift of Representation Theory to Mathematics
by Gabriella D’Este - 87-90 A Brief History of Numbers by Leo Corry
by Jesper Lützen - 91-91 Gott Sprach: Es Werde Newton… Mathematisch-Physikalische Lehr- und Leergedichte by Manfred Stern
by Osmo Pekonen - 92-93 A Comet of the Enlightenment: Anders Johan Lexell’s Life and Discoveries by Johan C.-E. Stén
by Ronald Calinger - 94-95 Euler et le Parcours du Cavalier, avec une Annexe sur le Théorème des Polyèdres by Jacques Sesiano
by Albrecht Heeffer - 96-96 The New World
by Robin Wilson
June 2017, Volume 39, Issue 2
- 1-1 A Response to Douglas Jesseph
by Amir Alexander - 2-2 Equiliteral Triangle
by Robert Dawson - 3-5 Presidential Address
by Colin Adams - 6-14 On Building and Interpreting Models: Four Historical Case Studies
by David E. Rowe - 15-26 Straight Lines on Models of Curved Surfaces
by Oliver Labs - 27-35 On Models for Visualizing Four-Dimensional Figures
by Klaus Volkert - 36-45 An early Debate in Mathematical Biology and Its Value for Teaching: Rashevsky’s 1934 Paper on Cell Division
by Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen - 46-54 Feynman Diagrams as Models
by Michael Stöltzner - 55-58 Dense yet Elementary
by Neil Dobbs - 59-59 You, Sledgehammer
by Lance Nizami - 60-63 The Same, Only Different
by Jim Henle - 64-71 Wigner’s “Unreasonable Effectiveness” in Context
by José Ferreirós - 72-75 “Rayleigh’s Rotating Ring”1
by Paul J. Nahin - 76-84 Baroque Turin, Between Geometry and Architecture
by Roberta Spallone & Marco Vitali - 85-95 Twenty Years of “Nexus: Architecture and Mathematics” 1996–2016
by Kim Williams - 96-98 Art in the Life of Mathematicians edited by Anna Kepes Szemerédi
by John J. Watkins - 99-101 André-Louis Cholesky: Mathematician, Topographer and Army Officer by Claude Brezinski and Dominique Tournès
by Michele Benzi - 102-103 How to Bake π: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics by Eugenia Cheng
by Pamela Gorkin - 104-104 Imagine Maths 4: Between Culture and Mathematics edited by Michele Emmer, Marco Abate, and Marcela Villareal
by Marco Andreatta - 105-106 János Bolyai: Die ersten 200 Jahre by Tibor Weszely translated from Hungarian into German by Manfred Stern
by Osmo Pekonen - 107-107 Erratum to: How Efficiently Can One Untangle a Double-Twist? Waving is Believing!
by David Pengelley & Daniel Ramras - 108-108 Leonhard Euler
by Robin Wilson
March 2017, Volume 39, Issue 1
- 1-2 Stairway down to Earth: From Abstract to Concrete
by Biserka Kolarec - 3-5 Expect at Most One Billionth of a New Fermat Prime!
by Kent D. Boklan & John H. Conway - 6-11 Variations on Steiner’s Porism
by Đorđe Baralić & Dušan Jokanović & Marina Milićević