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March 2018, Volume 40, Issue 1
- 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 - 12-14 The Topology Terrors
by Colin Adams - 15-21 Interview with Pierre Cartier
by Sylvie Paycha - 22-25 The Polynomial Euclidean Algorithm and the Linear Equation AX + BY = gcd(A, B)
by Gove Effinger & Gary L. Mullen - 26-26 Numerical Landscape
by Eveline Pye - 27-40 How Efficiently Can One Untangle a Double-Twist? Waving is Believing!
by David Pengelley & Daniel Ramras - 41-43 Polynomials as Polygons
by Serge Tabachnikov - 44-49 The Unknown Hurwitz
by Nicola M. R. Oswald - 50-52 Reminiscences of Two Evenings with Dmitry Borisovich Gnedenko
by Bismark Singh - 53-59 Equivalence of Symmetries and Permutations in R n
by Ed Dubinsky & David Henderson & Mona Nosrati - 60-65 A Bike Tour for Rinus Roelofs’ Art in Twente, The Netherlands
by Dirk Huylebrouck - 66-69 The Chinese Leftovers Theorem
by Jim Henle - 70-71 Who Killed Professor X? by Thodoris Andriopoulos and Thanasis Gkiokas
by Marco Abate - 72-73 Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World by Amir Alexander
by Douglas Jesseph - 74-76 Pearls From a Lost City: The Lvov School of Mathematics by Roman Duda translated from the 2007 Polish original by Daniel Davies
by Lech Maligranda - 77-78 Peter Lax, Mathematician: An Illustrated Memoir by Reuben Hersh photographic research by Eda Gordon
by Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze - 79-81 Explaining Beauty in Mathematics: An Aesthetic Theory of Mathematics by Ulianov Montano
by David Pimm & Nathalie Sinclair - 82-82 Continental Mathematics
by Robin Wilson
December 2016, Volume 38, Issue 4
- 1-6 Emilie du Châtelet, 1706–1749: Transformer of Metaphysics and Scientist
by Ruth Hagengruber - 7-10 Chemical π
by John Conway - 11-18 Hopf Fibrations and Hurwitz-Radon Numbers
by Valentin Ovsienko & Serge Tabachnikov - 19-22 The Guy with the Golden Touch:
by Muhammad A. Khan - 23-27 The Math Museum
by Colin Adams - 28-34 Projective Geometry in the Moon Tilt Illusion
by Marc Frantz - 35-35 Asparagoethe
by Terry Trowbridge - 36-38 The NSA and the Social Responsibility of Mathematicians
by Jonathan Korman & Wing-Yee Tong - 39-45 Looking Back on Gauss and Gaussian Legends: Answers to the Quiz from 37(4)
by David E. Rowe - 46-51 Why Are We Not Able to See Beyond Three Dimensions?
by Rogério Martins - 52-55 Drifting Runway Numbers
by Dirk Huylebrouck - 56-61 Mathematical Humor: Jokes that Reveal How We Think About Mathematics and Why We Enjoy It
by Keith Weber - 62-64 Knowing and Seeking
by Jim Henle - 65-69 Émilie du Châtelet: Éclairages & Documents Nouveaux edited by Ulla Kölving and Olivier Courcelle
by Johan Stén - 70-77 Émilie!
by Mary W. Gray - 78-83 Émilie du Châtelet Between Leibniz and Newton edited by Ruth Hagengruber
by Robyn Arianrhod - 84-85 Émilie by Kaija Saariaho
by Mary W. Gray - 86-86 La Figure de la Terre (Film) by Axel Straschnoy
by Mary W. Gray - 87-87 50 Visions of Mathematics edited by Sam Parc, Foreword by Dara O’Briain
by Gerald B. Folland - 88-88 After Newton’s Principia
by Robin Wilson
September 2016, Volume 38, Issue 3
- 1-5 Real Clifford Algebras and Quadratic Forms over $${\mathbb{F}}_2$$ F 2 : Two Old Problems Become One
by Valentin Ovsienko - 6-10 Privacy and Counterfeit Coins
by Nicholas Diaco & Tanya Khovanova - 11-13 Mathematicus
by Colin Adams - 14-19 Logical Probability and the Strength of Mathematical Conjectures
by James Franklin - 20-23 The Unforeseen Feminist
by Marcella LaVoi Melby - 24-29 Tilings of Parallelograms by Similar Isosceles Triangles
by David G. L. Wang - 30-40 Bertrand Russell at Bryn Mawr
by William Dunham - 41-51 Stairway to Heaven: The Abstract Method and Levels of Abstraction in Mathematics
by Jean-Pierre Marquis - 52-60 A Snapshot of Debates on Relativistic Cosmology, 1917–1924 (Part II)
by David E. Rowe - 61-68 Fullerenes, Polyhedra, and Chinese Guardian Lions
by Eugene A. Katz & Bih-Yaw Jin - 69-77 A Dialogue on the Ethics of Mathematics
by Paul Ernest - 78-80 Persistence
by Jim Henle - 81-84 An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics by James Franklin
by Alex Koo - 85-90 Why Is There Philosophy of Mathematics At All? by Ian Hacking
by Carlos Montemayor - 91-93 The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys’ Club by Eileen Pollack
by Marion Cohen - 94-95 Mathematics in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art: Content, Form, Meaning by Robert Tubbs
by Luke Wolcott - 96-97 Zombies and Calculus by Colin Adams
by Tushar Das - 98-98 Isaac Newton
by Robin Wilson
June 2016, Volume 38, Issue 2
- 1-2 An Effective Tool Might Lead Us on to an Ineffective Proof
by Artin Sharifi - 3-3 What Could “Effective” Mean for Proofs?
by Michael Neubrand - 4-5 Catalan Numbers
by Federico Ardila - 6-9 Writing an Open Text
by Jim Hefferon & Albert Schueller - 10-13 Dogma: S-shaped
by Pablo Castañeda - 14-16 The Galactic Math Repository
by Colin Adams - 17-28 Determining the Use of Mathematical Geometry in the Ancient Greek Method of Design
by Drew M. Ross - 29-34 Centers of Mass of Poncelet Polygons, 200 Years After
by Richard Schwartz & Sergei Tabachnikov - 35-45 Bridges: A World Community for Mathematical Art
by Kristóf Fenyvesi - 46-58 A Snapshot of Debates on Relativistic Cosmology, 1917–1924 (Part I)
by David E. Rowe - 59-64 Maine v. Mathematics: A Tale of Reapportionment, Calculation and Indignation
by Michael J. Caulfield - 65-68 A Tasting Menu
by Jim Henle - 69-76 Möbius Strips Before Möbius: Topological Hints in Ancient Representations
by Julyan H. E. Cartwright & Diego L. González - 77-79 The Diabolic Connection Between Paris and Brussels
by Dirk Huylebrouck - 80-82 Imagined Civilizations: China, the West, and Their First Encounter by Roger Hart
by Andrea Bréard - 83-84 The Emperor’s New Mathematics: Western Learning and Imperial Authority During the Kangxi Reign (1662–1722) by Catherine Jami
by Albrecht Heeffer - 85-86 Enlightening Symbols: A Short History of Mathematical Notation by Joseph Mazur
by Rafe Jones - 87-88 Do I Count? Stories from Mathematicsby Günter M. Ziegler (translated from German by Thomas Von Foerster)
by Ulrich Daepp - 89-89 Erratum to: Math at the Met
by Joseph Dauben & Marjorie Senechal - 90-90 China and Japan
by Robin Wilson
March 2016, Volume 38, Issue 1
- 1-3 Conway’s Nonperpendiculars as a Tool: The Case of the Law of Cosines
by Michael Neubrand - 4-5 New Proofs of Chaundy–Bullard Identity in “The Problem of Points”
by Huiming Zhang - 6-7 Filling a Gap in the History of $${\pi}$$ π : An Exciting Discovery
by Benjamin Wardhaugh - 8-13 Eye Movement Space
by Richard Clement - 14-21 On the Even Distribution of Primes Mod P (And Why This is Not a Proof of the Goldbach Conjecture)
by Eric Gaze & Joseph Gaze - 22-24 The Mechanical Problem of Squaring the Circle
by Stan Wagon - 25-31 Painting New Lines: Maximizing Color Difference in Metro Maps
by Simone F. Griffioen & Arthemy V. Kiselev - 32-33 WHAT IS… A Laminated Deck Transformation?
by Colin Adams - 34-36 Paul Dirac and the Town of Saint-Maurice in Switzerland
by Jean-Paul Berrut - 37-39 Prague Clocks
by Chan Bae & John Conway & Lukas Kohlhase & Sunghyuk Park - 40-40 A Coxeter-Conway Duality
by Siobhan Roberts - 41-48 The Extra Fibonacci Series and the Empire State Building
by John Conway & Alex Ryba - 49-55 The Mysterious Mr. Graham
by Paul J. Nahin - 56-66 “Mathematics Knows NoRaces”: A Political Speech that David Hilbert Planned for the ICM in Bologna in 1928
by Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze - 67-73 The Books of Numbers: Quantifying Historical Trends in Numeracy
by Yanqing Chen & Steven Skiena - 74-77 The Minus and the Plus of Hi-Tech
by Jim Henle - 78-81 Genius At Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway by Siobhan Roberts
by Joseph Mazur - 82-83 Combinatorics: Ancient & Modern by Robin Wilson and John J. Watkins (eds.)
by David Pritchard - 84-87 Mathematics Across the Iron Curtain: A History of the Algebraic Theory of Semigroups by Christopher Hollings
by David E. Zitarelli - 88-89 The Imitation Game by Andrew Hodges and Graham Moore
by Mary W. Gray - 90-92 Math Goes to the Movies by Burkard Polster and Marty Ross
by Mary W. Gray - 93-94 The Mathematician’s Shiva by Stuart Rojstaczer
by Tom Petsinis - 95-95 Erratum to: On Morley’s Trisector Theorem
by John Conway - 96-96 17th-Century French Mathematics
by Robin Wilson
December 2005, Volume 27, Issue 1
- 6-7 Eponymphomania
by Eric Grunwald - 8-20 Plato and analysis
by W. M. Priestley - 22-31 Herman Müntz: A Mathematician’s Odyssey
by Eduardo L. Ortiz & Allan Pinkus - 32-36 Quando che’l cubo
by Kellie O. Gutman - 37-40 Trial and error
by Colin Adams - 41-54 Alice in switzerland: The life and mathematics of alice roth
by Ulrich Daepp & Paul M. Gauthier & Pamela Gorkin & Gerald Schmieder - 55-63 Goldbug variations
by Michael Kleber - 64-68 Local rules and global order, or aperiodic tilings
by Bruno Durand & Leonid Levin & Alexander Shen - 69-71 The home of golden numberism
by Roger Herz-Fischler - 72-82 Hilbert’s early career: Encounters with allies and rivals
by David E. Rowe - 83-85 Statistics on the table: The history of statistical concepts and methods
by Ivo Schneider - 85-86 Theory of Bergman Spaces
by David Békollé - 86-88 Gamma: Exploring Euler’s Constant
by Gerald L. Alexanderson - 88-89 Schlüsseltechnologie mathematik
by Gerhard Betsch - 89-89 Sync-how order emerges from chaos in the universe, nature, and daily life
by A. W. F. Edwards - 90-91 Mathematics unlimited-2001 and Beyond
by Peter W. Michor - 91-94 The mathematical century
by Gerald L. Alexanderson - 96-96 The Philamath’s Alphabet-G
by Robin Wilson