A century of advancing mathematics / Stephen F. Kennedy, editor ; associate editors, Donald J. Albers, Gerald L. Alexanderson, Della Dumbaugh, Frank A. Farris, Deanna B. Haunsperger, Paul Zorn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kennedy, Stephen F., editor.

Mathematical Association of America.

Series:

Spectrum, 2638-9045 ; v. 81

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematics--History--20th century.

Mathematics.

Mathematics--History--21st century.

Mathematics--Research.

Mathematics--Study and teaching (Higher).

Mathematical Association of America--History.

Mathematical Association of America.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 423 pages : illustrations (some color))

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : Mathematical Association of America, [2015]

System Details:

Mode of access : World Wide Web

Summary:

"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 mathematical exposition. MAA members have explored more than just mathematics; we have, as this volume tries to make evident, investigated mathematical connections to pedagogy, history, the arts, technology, literature, every field of intellectual endeavor. Essays, all commissioned for this volume, include exposition by Bob Devaney, Robin Wilson, and Frank Morgan; history from Karen Parshall, Della Dumbaugh and Bill Dunham; pedagogical discussion from Paul Zorn, Joe Gallian and Michael Starbird, and cultural commentary from Bonnie Gold, Jon Borwein and Steve Abbott. This volume contains 35 essays by all-star writers and expositors writing to celebrate an extraordinary century for mathematics--more mathematics has been created and published since 1915 than in all of previous recorded history. We've solved age-old mysteries, created entire new fields of study, and changed our conception of what mathematics is. Many of those stories are told in this volume as the contributors paint a portrait of the broad cultural sweep of mathematics during the MAA's first century. Mathematics is the most thrilling, the most human, area of intellectual inquiry; you will find in this volume compelling proof of that claim."-- Back cover.

Contents:

Part I. Mathematical Developments The Hyperbolic Revolution: From Topology to Geometry, and Back / Francis Bonahon

https://www.ams.org/spec/081 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/081/02 A Century of Complex Dynamics / Daniel Alexander and Robert L. Devaney

https://www.ams.org/spec/081 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/081/03 Map-Coloring Problems / Robin Wilson

https://www.ams.org/spec/081 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/081/04 Six Milestones in Geometry / Frank Morgan

https://www.ams.org/spec/081 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/081/05 Defying God: the Stanley-Wilf Conjecture, Stanley-Wilf Limits, and a Two-Generation Explosion of Combinatorics / Eric S. Egge

https://www.ams.org/spec/081 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/081/06 What Is the Best Approach to Counting Primes? / Andrew Granville

https://www.ams.org/spec/081 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/081/07 A Century of Elliptic Curves / Joseph H. Silverman

https://www.ams.org/spec/081 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/081/08 Part II. Historical Developments The Mathematical Association of America: Its First 100 Years / David E. Zitarelli

https://www.ams.org/spec/081 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/081/10 The Stratification of the American Mathematical Community: The Mathematical Association of America and the American Mathematical Society, 1915-1925 / Karen Hunger Parshall

https://www.ams.org/spec/081 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/081/11 Time and Place: Sustaining the American Mathematical Community / Della Dumbaugh

https://www.ams.org/spec/081 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/081/12 Abstract (Modern) Algebra in America 1870-1950: A Brief Account / Israel Kleiner

https://www.ams.org/spec/081 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/081/13 Part III. Pedagogical Developments The History of the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics in the United States / Alan Tucker

https://www.ams.org/spec/081 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/081/15 Inquiry-Based Learning Through the Life of the MAA / Michael Starbird

https://www.ams.org/spec/081 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/081/16 A Passport to Pleasure / Bob Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan

https://www.ams.org/spec/081 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/081/17 Strength in Numbers: Broadening the View of the Mathematics Major / Rhonda Hughes

https://www.ams.org/spec/081 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/081/18 A History of Undergraduate Research in Mathematics / Joseph A. Gallian

https://www.ams.org/spec/081 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/081/19 The Calculus Reform Movement: A Personal Account / Paul Zorn

https://www.ams.org/spec/081 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/081/20 Introducing $e^x$ / Gilbert Strang

https://www.ams.org/spec/081 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/081/21 Part IV. Computational Developments Computational Experiences in the Pre-Electronic Days / Philip J. Davis

https://www.ams.org/spec/081 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/081/23 A Century of Visualization: One Geometer's View / Thomas F. Banchoff

https://www.ams.org/spec/081 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/081/24 The Future of Mathematics: 1965 to 2065 / Jonathan M. Borwein

https://www.ams.org/spec/081 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/081/25 Part V. Culture and Communities Philosophy of Mathematics: What Has Happened Since Gödel's Results? / Bonnie Gold

https://www.ams.org/spec/081 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/081/27 Twelve Classics People who Love Mathematics Should Know; or, "What do you mean, you haven't read E. T. Bell?" / Gerald L. Alexanderson

https://www.ams.org/spec/081 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/081/28 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

https://www.ams.org/spec/081 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/081/29 The Year of Euler / William Dunham

https://www.ams.org/spec/081 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/081/30 The Putnam Competition: Origin, Lore, Structure / Leonard F. Klosinski

https://www.ams.org/spec/081 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/081/31 Getting Involved with the MAA: A Path Less Traveled / Ezra "Bud" Brown

https://www.ams.org/spec/081 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/081/32 Henry L. Alder / Donald J. Albers and Gerald L. Alexanderson

https://www.ams.org/spec/081 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/081/33 Lida K. Barrett / Kenneth A. Ross

https://www.ams.org/spec/081 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/081/34 Ralph P. Boas / Daniel Zelinsky

https://www.ams.org/spec/081 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/081/35 Leonard Gillman

Reminiscences / Martha J. Siegel

https://www.ams.org/spec/081 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/081/36 Paul Halmos: No Apologies / John Ewing

https://www.ams.org/spec/081 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/081/37 Ivan Niven / Kenneth A. Ross

https://www.ams.org/spec/081 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/081/38 George Pólya and the MAA / Gerald L. Alexanderson

https://www.ams.org/spec/081 https://doi.org/10.1090/spec/081/39

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. Providence, Rhode Island : American Mathematical Society. 2015

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