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December 2024, Volume 46, Issue 4
- 305-305 A Mausoleum Inspired by Mathematics
by Reza Farhadian - 306-312 Crocheting Bour’s Minimal Surfaces
by Hanne Kekkonen - 313-320 Ropes, Fractions, and Moduli Spaces
by Nick Salter - 321-323 Associate Editor
by Colin Adams - 324-330 A Sticker Album for Tilers (Collector’s Edition)
by Bojan Bašić & Anna Slivková - 331-331 Visual Proof of Catalan’s Identity for the Fibonacci Numbers
by Nam Gu Heo - 332-339 Modulation Graphs in Popular Music
by Jason I. Brown & Ian C. George - 340-346 Einstein Proves the Mohr–Mascheroni Theorem
by Tilman Sauer - 347-354 Simple Closed Geodesics on a Polyhedron
by Vladimir Yu. Protasov - 355-355 π Newly Calculated: for Li Lan
by Yuan Changming - 356-358 A Geometric Proof of the Polygonal Isoperimetric Inequality
by Beniamin Bogosel - 359-365 Variations on a Theme by Aristotle (with a Little Help from Euler, Lagrange, Hamilton, and Pontryagin)
by Maxim Raginsky - 366-371 Math Encounters in Pisa
by Ma. Louise Antonette N. Las Peñas - 372-377 Heron Triangles and the Hunt for Unicorns
by Andrew N. W. Hone - 378-392 AIM: Building and Supporting Collaborative Research Communities
by Brianna Donaldson & David Farmer & Sally Koutsoliotas & Michelle Manes - 394-395 The Prosecution of Professor Chandler Davis: McCarthyism, Communism, and the Myth of Academic Freedom by Steve Batterson
by Marjorie Senechal - 396-399 A Mathematician’s Apology by G. H. Hardy Cambridge University Press, first edition 1940, latest edition 2012, 154 pp., $17.99 An Applied Mathematician’s Apology by Lloyd N. Trefethen SIAM, 2022, 79 pp., $36.00 Mathematics Is the Poetry of Science by Cédric Villani Oxford University Press, 2020, 69 pp., $17.99
by Andrew J. Simoson - 400-402 Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator by Keith Houston
by John McCleary - 403-405 Probably Overthinking It
by Lee Kennedy-Shaffer - 406-406 Chinese Mathematics 3: The 20th Century
by Jinhai Liu & Robin Wilson
September 2024, Volume 46, Issue 3
- 209-210 Gödel’s Last Loop
by Fabio Acerbi - 211-212 More on Fritz Noether: The Index
by Elias Wegert - 213-213 Correction to: A Rolling Square Bridge: Reimagining the Wheel
by Alfred Jacquemot & Thomas Randall‑Page & Antonín Slavík & Stan Wagon - 214-221 Fibonacci-Related Formulas for Pi
by Joseph Tonien - 222-224 The Number of Prime Parking Functions
by Rui Duarte & António Guedes de Oliveira - 225-226 You Need Insurance
by Colin Adams - 227-233 Seven Proofs of Lexell’s Theorem: An Excursion into Spherical Geometry
by Hiroshi Maehara & Horst Martini - 234-235 A Proof of Pollock’s Conjecture on Centered Nonagonal Numbers
by Miroslav Kureš - 236-238 A Generalization of de Gua’s Theorem with a Vector Proof
by Quang Hung Tran - 239-242 Sperner via Vandermonde
by Richard Ehrenborg - 243-243 Cardioid Reviewed for Helena Qi Hong
by Yuan Changming - 244-246 An Interview with Efim Zelmanov
by Karen Hunger Parshall & Sergei Tabachnikov - 247-254 On Equilibria of Tetrahedra
by Gergő Almádi & Robert J. MacG. Dawson & Gábor Domokos & Krisztina Regős - 255-259 The Archimedean Cuboctahedron: A Medieval Journey from the Middle East to Northern Russia
by Andrey Yu. Chernov & Eugene A. Katz - 260-263 The Magic Permutohedron
by Djordje Baralić & Lazar Milenković - 264-268 Conway and Doyle Can Divide by Three, But I Can’t
by Patrick Lutz - 269-274 Sequences with Nontrivial Sums: Algebra Meets Magic
by Ehrhard Behrends - 275-278 Jim Simons, Community Builder
by Marjorie Senechal - 279-284 Variations on the Two-Child Problem
by Christoph Börgers & Samer Nour Eddine - 285-286 A Short ODE Proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra
by Ramona Anton & Nicolae Mihalache & François Vigneron - 288-289 The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920–1950
by Ellen Abrams - 290-293 Émile Borel: A Life in Mathematics and Politics Across Two Centuries by Pierre Guiraldenq Translated by Arturo Sangalli
by David M. Bressoud - 294-296 Do Not Erase: Mathematicians and Their Chalkboards
by Johan Stén - 297-299 Excursions in Number Theory, Algebra, and Analysis By Kenneth Ireland and Al Cuoco
by Paul Pollack - 300-301 The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Mathematician Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust
by Pamela Gorkin - 302-303 Chinese Mathematics 2: Early Mathematicians
by Jinhai Liu & Robin Wilson
June 2024, Volume 46, Issue 2
- 101-101 The Volume of a Reversible Tetrahedron
by Martin Lukarevski - 102-116 On the Origins of Cantor’s Paradox: What Hilbert Left Unsaid at the 1900 ICM in Paris
by David E. Rowe - 117-127 A Bayesian Treatment of the German Tank Problem
by Cory M. Simon - 128-129 Corrigenda
by Colin Adams - 130-132 Transcendere: A Visual Metaphor for Research in Transcendental Number Theory
by Nathan Green & Grace Grothaus - 133-134 Proof Without Words: Inversion Number of Binary Words
by N. Uday Kiran - 135-140 Turning Conics into Beans: Introducing the Haricoids
by Raymond Mortini - 141-144 Ptolemy’s Almagest in Poetry and Collage
by Sarah Glaz & Mark Sanders - 145-155 Swimming in Data
by Katherine Douglass & Augustus Lamb & Jerry Lu & Ken Ono & William Tenpas - 156-163 “The Bedrock of Logical Thought”: Mathematics on the Television in 1957
by Karen Hunger Parshall - 164-170 Unexpected Utility Paradoxes
by Yuliy Baryshnikov - 171-182 A Rolling Square Bridge: Reimagining the Wheel
by Alfred Jacquemot & Thomas Randall-Page & Antonín Slavík & Stan Wagon - 183-188 On the Three-Distance Theorem
by Valérie Berthé & Christophe Reutenauer - 189-193 Oxford’s History of Mathematics Forum: The First Two Decades
by Christopher Hollings & Robin Wilson - 195-198 Vito Volterra by Angelo Guerraggio and Giovanni Paoloni Reviewed by Stefano Gattei; Franco Muzzio, 2008, 243 pp. €18. English translation by Kim Williams, Springer, 2012, 187 pp, €31.19
by Stefano Gattei - 199-201 What’s the Use? The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics by Ian Stewart
by Firdous Ahmad Mala - 202-204 The Story of Proof: Logic and the History of Mathematics by John Stillwell
by Alexi Block Gorman - 205-207 The International Commission on Mathematical Instruction, 1908–2008: People, Events, and Challenges in Mathematics Education
by Judith Goodstein - 208-208 Chinese Mathematics 1: Counting and Measuring
by Jinhai Liu & Robin Wilson
March 2024, Volume 46, Issue 1
- 1-1 Correction to: A Closed-Form Solution to the Geometric Goat Problem
by Ingo Ullisch - 2-2 A Look at a Dictionary That Became an Encyclopedia
by Biserka Kolarec - 3-8 The Winning Move for Cutting Corners
by Jindřich Michalik - 9-21 Differential Geometry of Space Curves: Forgotten Chapters
by Dmitry Fuchs & Ivan Izmestiev & Matteo Raffaelli & Gudrun Szewieczek & Serge Tabachnikov - 22-24 Out to Pasture
by Colin Adams - 25-31 Geometric Construction of Pythagorean and Just Musical Scales and Commas
by Børre Nyhoff & Alv I. Aarskog & Sverre Holm - 32-32 The Sequence of Proof
by Lowell Abrams - 33-41 The Never-Ending Happiness of Paul Erdős’s Mathematics
by Veselin Jungić - 42-45 Regular Dodecagon Quadrature with Pattern Blocks Manipulatives
by Günhan Caglayan - 46-48 The Entry Sum of the Inverse Cauchy Matrix
by Darij Grinberg - 49-56 “When in Rome ...”: Marie Litzinger’s Letters Home, 1923–1924
by Jemma Lorenat - 57-62 Why Did Thomas Harriot Invent Binary?
by Lloyd Strickland - 63-69 Remembering Fritz Noether in the Town of Gengenbach
by David E. Rowe - 70-77 My Favorite Mathematical Stamps: 40 Years of Intelligencer Stamp Corners
by Robin Wilson - 78-84 From Boxes to Polynomials: A Story of Generalization
by Gypsy Akhyar & Yifan Guo & Lihexuan Yuan - 85-88 The Courant Institute Geometry Seminar: A Vibrant Community
by Joseph Malkevitch - 90-91 Enigmes mathématiques au temps de Charlemagne by Jérome Gavin and Philippe Genequand
by Albrecht Heeffer - 92-95 Sämtliche Gedichte [Collected Poems], second revised and enlarged edition by Johannes Kepler edited and annotated by Friedrich Seck translations from Latin to German by Monika Balzert
by Hans-Joachim Albinus & Detlef Suckrau - 96-97 Geometric Foundations of Design: Old and New
by Đorđe Baralić - 98-99 Magic Squares
by Robin Wilson
December 2023, Volume 45, Issue 4
- 295-295 “Decolonization” of the Curricula: Beyond Historical Enrichment
by Joshua Hiller - 296-297 Response to “ ‘Decolonization’ of the Curricula: Beyond Historical Enrichment”
by Alexandre Borovik - 298-298 Correction to: A Simple Formula for Doomsday
by Hirofumi Nakai - 299-306 Perspectives Through a Two-Slit Camera
by Annalisa Crannell & Ojima Abraham & Jihang Dai & Yike Gong & Rebecca McClain & Nithya Ramaswamy & Charles Reisner & Evan Shinn & Shen Wang - 307-309 A Desktop Model of a Two-Slit Camera
by Gary Kennedy & Jeff Sprang - 310-311 The Bridge
by Colin Adams - 312-318 Snakes and Ladders and Intransitivity, or What Mathematicians Do in Their Time Off
by Gregory B. Sorkin - 319-319 Calculus: A Love Sonnet
by Anna Remennik - 320-334 Computer Experiments and Visualization in Mathematics and Physics: A Subjective Short Walk Among Some Historical Examples
by J.-R. Chazottes & M. Monticelli - 335-337 On the Longest Distance Problem
by Katiuscia Teixeira - 338-345 Theorems of Euclidean Geometry Through Calculus
by Martin Buysse - 346-358 Jorge Juan: Mathematician, Seaman, Engineer, Diplomat, and Spy of the Spanish Enlightenment
by Armando Alberola & Rosario Die & Miguel A. Goberna - 359-364 Trisecting the Nine-Vertex Complex Projective Plane
by Richard Evan Schwartz - 365-370 Matteo Ricci in Beijing
by Zhuoqun Hu & Meiyu Qu & Pengfei Liu - 371-378 Conway’s Light on the Shadow of Mordell
by Alexander P. Veselov - 379-383 Proof School
by Sam Vandervelde - 385-386 Number Theory by Andrej Dujella
by John J. Watkins - 387-389 Can Fish Count?
by Giorgio Vallortigara - 390-391 Putting Two and Two Together: Selections from the Mathologer Files by Burkard Polster and Marty Ross
by Jarek Kędra - 392-393 Bertrand Russell
by Ravindra K. Bisht & Robin Wilson
September 2023, Volume 45, Issue 3
- 193-205 “A Handbook of Integer Sequences” Fifty Years Later
by N. J. A. Sloane - 206-207 The Intergalactic Congress of Mathematicians
by Colin Adams - 208-222 Speaking to the Public: Mathematicians on American Radio, the 1920s through the 1940s
by Albert C. Lewis & Karen Hunger Parshall - 223-223 The Golden Supercircle
by Reza Farhadian & Vadim Ponomarenko - 224-231 Around Arrow
by Yuliy Baryshnikov - 232-241 Exploring the Dynamics of the Circumcenter Map
by Nicholas McDonald & Ronaldo Garcia & Dan Reznik - 242-250 Lucien Hibbert: Mathematician and Statesman
by Louis Beaugris - 251-255 Tetrahedra with Congruent Facet Pairs
by Daniel A. Klain - 256-262 Counting Quiddities of Polygon Dissections
by Charles H. Conley & Valentin Ovsienko - 263-265 An Even More Straightforward Proof of Descartes’s Circle Theorem
by Alden Bradford - 266-277 Mathematical Tourists in Karlovy Vary
by Antonín Slavík & Jiří Veselý - 278-283 A Decade of MoMath: TENacity, InTENsity, and PoTENtial
by Cindy Lawrence - 286-288 Thomas Muir: ‘Lad O’ Pairts’. The Life and Work of Sir Thomas Muir (1844–1934), Mathematician and Cape Colonial Educationist by Peter Elliott
by Christian Krattenthaler - 289-290 Your Life in Numbers: Modeling Society Through Data by Pablo Jensen
by Firdous Ahmad Mala - 291-293 Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein
by David Aldous - 294-294 Ceva’s Theorem
by Robin Wilson
June 2023, Volume 45, Issue 2
- 91-91 Addendum to “A Hyperbolic View of the Seven Circles Theorem”
by Kostiantyn Drach & Richard Evan Schwartz - 92-103 Triangles & Princesses & Bears, Oh My!
by David L. Duncan - 104-107 Gulag
by Colin Adams - 108-117 Incommensurability, the Heptagon of Ignacio Muñoz (1684), and Kepler’s Heresy
by Josep Lluis i Ginovart & Cinta Lluis-Teruel - 118-119 The Ubiquitous Apéry Number
by Paul Levrie - 120-125 Navigating the Negative Curvature of Google Maps
by Yuliy Baryshnikov & Robert Ghrist - 126-130 F Things You (Probably) Didn’t Know About Hexadecimal
by Lloyd Strickland & Owain Daniel Jones - 131-132 A Simple Formula for Doomsday
by Hirofumi Nakai - 133-138 Toric Quasifolds
by Elisa Prato - 139-143 The Artistic, Algebraic, and Severe “Russian” Genius Arthur Cayley
by Jemma Lorenat - 144-149 “Decolonization” of the Curricula
by Alexandre Borovik - 150-158 A Mathematician Reads the Kalam Cosmological Argument
by Timothy Y. Chow - 159-164 Finite Gauss Transformations
by Maxim Arnold & Anatoly Eydelzon - 165-167 A Simple Sum for Simplices
by Christian Aebi & Grant Cairns - 168-174 Dropping Bodies
by Richard Montgomery - 175-176 Conditional Life Expectancy
by Josh Hiller - 177-181 Emmy Noether Steps Onstage: Her Place in Mathematical Communities, Past and Present
by David E. Rowe - 183-185 What Are the Chances of That? How to Think About Uncertainty by Andrew C. A. Elliot
by Olle Häggström - 186-189 Irrationality and Transcendence in Number Theory by David Angell
by Andrew J. Simoson - 190-191 The Doctrine of Triangles: A History of Modern Trigonometry by Glen Van Brummelen
by Daniel Mansfield - 192-192 Srinivasa Ramanujan
by Firdous Ahmad Mala & Robin Wilson
March 2023, Volume 45, Issue 1
- 1-4 Osmo Pekonen (1960–2022)
by Johan Stén & Timo Tossavainen - 5-6 Will Others Now Commit Luzin’s “Sin”?
by Istvan Hargittai - 7-7 Why Did Hertha Ayrton Not Become the First Female Fellow of the Royal Society?
by Magdolna Hargittai - 8-8 Is Pluralism in the History of Mathematics Possible?
by Jacques Bair & Alexandre Borovik & Vladimir Kanovei & Mikhail G. Katz & Semen S. Kutateladze & Sam Sanders & David Sherry & Monica Ugaglia & Mark Atten - 9-15 Counting Clean Triangles
by Mizan R. Khan & Riaz R. Khan - 16-18 Piracy
by Colin Adams - 19-21 Conway’s Dream
by Sam Vandervelde - 22-24 Conway’s Nightmare: Brahmagupta and Butterflies
by Richard Evan Schwartz - 25-30 Xu Guangqi in Shanghai
by Meiyu Qu & Zhuoqun Hu & Pengfei Liu - 31-37 Networks of Twin Peaks: The Dale Cooper Effect
by Harun Siljak - 38-41 Dissecting a Star of David into Polygonal Numbers
by Günhan Caglayan - 42-49 Steps Toward a Philosophy for Mathematicians
by Jens Erik Fenstad - 50-54 Shadow Sequences of Integers: From Fibonacci to Markov and Back
by Valentin Ovsienko - 55-63 The Many Apportionment Paradoxes of the 2020 Iowa Democratic Presidential Caucuses
by David McCune - 64-70 A Mathematical Snapshot: The University of Rochester, 1933–1936
by Karen Hunger Parshall - 71-72 Bertrand’s Problem in Making a Face Mask
by Xianan Qin & Mingyi Chen - 73-77 Turning the Table: A Conversation with István Hargittai
by Marjorie Senechal - 79-81 Philosophy of Mathematics: Classic and Contemporary Studies
by Firdous Ahmad Mala - 82-84 Uncountable: A Philosophical History of Number and Humanity from Antiquity to the Present
by Andrew J. Simoson - 85-87 In Pursuit of Zeta-3
by Andrew Simoson - 88-89 Chance, Logic and Intuition: An Introduction to the Counter-Intuitive Logic of Chance
by Floske Spieksma - 90-90 Number Theory 2
by Robin Wilson
December 2022, Volume 44, Issue 4
- 301-301 A Straightforward Proof of De Gua’s Theorem
by Martin Lukarevski - 302-305 An Interview with Maryna Viazovska
by Ken Ono - 306-307 Chandler Davis (1926–2022)
by Marjorie Senechal - 308-319 Did Turing Stand on Gödel’s Shoulders?
by B. Jack Copeland & Zhao Fan - 320-325 The Art of Unlocking
by Oleg Ogievetsky & Senya Shlosman - 326-330 Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Citations
by Alberto Saracco - 331-338 Chess Billiards
by Arnaldo Nogueira & Serge Troubetzkoy - 339-340 A Generalized Polygonal Number Difference Theorem
by Günhan Caglayan - 341-342 Early Retirement
by Colin Adams - 343-353 The Cartesian Ovals
by Rida T. Farouki - 354-357 Building Communities
by Della Dumbaugh & Deanna Haunsperger - 358-359 How Often Do You Want Your Team to Win?
by John E. McCarthy - 360-363 A Question of Fundamental Methodology: Reply to Mikhail Katz and His Coauthors
by Tom Archibald & Richard T. W. Arthur & Giovanni Ferraro & Jeremy Gray & Douglas Jesseph & Jesper Lützen & Marco Panza & David Rabouin & Gert Schubring - 364-370 The Vibrational Modes of Simplicial Molecules
by Charles H. Conley & Jon Erickson - 371-372 Proof Without Words: Sum of Fibonacci Numbers and Beyond
by Karol Gryszka - 373-381 Who Proved Pythagoras’s Theorem?
by Zoran Lučić - 382-388 Retrograde Baseball Redux
by Jerry Butters & Jim Henle - 391-392 Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut in Math and Life
by Jo Boaler - 393-394 The Madness of Crowds
by Mary Gray - 395-396 Science in London: A Guide to Memorials
by Osmo Pekonen - 397-398 Philosophy of Mathematics
by Roman Kossak - 399-404 Liber Abbaci
by Stefano Gattei - 405-405 Correction to: Sangaku Problems About Ellipses: Why Primary Sources Matter
by J. Marshall Unger - 406-406 Number Theory 1
by Robin Wilson
September 2022, Volume 44, Issue 3
- 191-191 A Generalized Form of a Visual Proof of $${\pi }^{e}
by Reza Farhadian - 192-192 Correction to: In the Shadow of Euler’s Greatness: Adventures in the Rediscovery of an Intriguing Sum
by Seán M. Stewart - 193-202 An Interview with Alexander Razborov
by Alexander Razborov - 203-211 The Amazing Chromatic Polynomial
by Bruce E. Sagan - 212-214 On Ramanujan’s Cubic Composition Formula
by Valentin Ovsienko - 215-224 The Complex Life of Alfred Pringsheim
by K. C. Hannabuss - 225-226 Secrets of Math Destruction
by Colin Adams - 227-237 Winning Wordle Wisely—or How to Ruin a Fun Little Internet Game with Math
by Martin B. Short - 238-240 Symmetries and Communities
by Marjorie Senechal - 241-249 Motion and Continuity
by Peter J. Olver - 250-260 Genius Loci: Mathematical Stories Along the Neva River
by Galina I. Sinkevich