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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 - 261-266 Two-Track Depictions of Leibniz’s Fictions
by Mikhail G. Katz & Karl Kuhlemann & David Sherry & Monica Ugaglia & Mark Atten - 267-268 A Note on the Closed-Form Solution for the Longest Head Run Problem of Abraham de Moivre
by Yaakov Malinovsky - 269-272 Blowing Off Steam: Victorian Narratives of Frustration About Mathematics
by Brittany Anne Carlson - 273-276 The Day She Proved It
by Álvaro Lozano-Robledo - 277-284 The Pleasures of Friends
by Jim Henle - 286-287 Luck, Logic, and White Lies. The Mathematics of Games, Second Edition
by Ronald J. Gould - 288-289 Games for Your Mind: The History and Future of Logic Puzzles
by Albrecht Heeffer - 290-292 The Life of Primes in 37 Episodes
by John J. Watkins - 293-295 Modernism, Fiction and Mathematics by Nina Engelhardt
by Mary Gray - 296-299 On the Brink of Paradox
by Andrew Simoson - 300-300 Women in Mathematics
by Robin Wilson
June 2022, Volume 44, Issue 2
- 79-86 Pafnuty Chebyshev and Geography
by Athanase Papadopoulos - 87-98 Wonder Cubes: Theme and Variations
by Azaria Paz - 99-107 How to Choose a President, Mayor, Chair: Balinski and Laraki Unpacked
by Harrie Swart - 108-110 Equinox
by Colin Adams - 111-118 A Visual Tour of Identities for the Padovan Sequence
by Tom Edgar & David Nacin - 119-122 The Gömböc Pill, Continuing ..
by Marjorie Senechal - 123-129 Showing, Telling, Understanding: Musings on Popularization
by Emmanuel Ordóñez Angulo - 130-136 The Geometric Dream Weaves of the T’boli
by Ma. Louise Antonette N. Peñas & Mark D. Tomenes - 137-149 Early Twentieth-Century Visitors and the Development of Modern Mathematics in China
by Chuanming Zong - 150-152 A Note on the Remarkable Expression of the Number $${8}/{\pi ^2}$$ 8 / π 2 That the Ramanujan Machine Discovered
by Miroslav Kureš - 153-160 I Can See the Ellipsoid from the Inside: Girtonian Responses to Francis Galton’s Survey on Mental Imagery
by Jemma Lorenat - 161-161 Whether
by Chandler Davis - 162-169 The Mathematical Art of Change Ringing
by Marjorie Batchelor & Jim Henle - 172-174 The Case of Academician Nikolai Nikolaevich LuzinEdited by Sergei S. Demidov and Boris V. Lëvshin. Translated from the Russian by Roger Cooke
by Alexey Glutsyuk - 175-180 Meeting under the Integral Sign? The Oslo Congress of Mathematicians on the Eve of the Second World War by Christopher D. Hollings and Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze
by Rossana Tazzioli - 181-184 Turbulent Times in Mathematics: The Life of J. C. Fields and the History of the Fields Medal by Elaine McKinnon Riehm and Frances Hoffman
by Michael J. Barany - 185-186 Curvature of Space and Time, with an Introduction to Geometric Analysis
by Bogdan D. Suceavă - 187-189 Risk, Choice, and Uncertainty: Three Centuries of Economic Decision-Making by George G. Szpiro COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2020, 264 PP., US$32.00, ISBN 978-0-231-19474-7
by Andrew J. Simoson - 190-190 International Congresses of Mathematicians
by Robin Wilson
March 2022, Volume 44, Issue 1
- 1-6 The Goat in the City
by Gilbert Bassett - 7-11 Loewner’s “Forgotten” Theorem
by Peter Albers & Serge Tabachnikov - 12-19 Sangaku Problems About Ellipses: Why Primary Sources Matter
by J. Marshall Unger - 20-21 Where Do Theorems Come From?
by Colin Adams - 22-27 The Golden Ratio and Hydrodynamics
by Boris Khesin & Hanchun Wang - 28-31 Party Time for Mathematicians in Heidelberg
by Osmo Pekonen - 32-38 Inference to the Best Explanation Is an Important Form of Reasoning in Mathematics
by Marc Lange - 39-43 A Large Controversy from a Small Town: Johann Georg von Soldner of Feuchtwangen
by Bismark Singh - 44-45 Visual Evaluation of a Geometric Series: Sum of Reciprocals of Odd Powers of Two
by Rajib Mukherjee - 46-56 The Origin of the Bernoulli Numbers: Mathematics in Basel and Edo in the Early Eighteenth Century
by Tomoko L. Kitagawa - 57-57 A Paraconsistent Poem
by Jeremiah Joven Joaquin - 58-64 Square Dance from a Mathematical Perspective
by Luke Sciarappa & Jim Henle - 66-67 Differential Geometry of Curves and Surfaces by Shoshichi Kobayashi, translated from the Japanese by Eriko Shinozaki Nagumo and Makiko Sumi Tanaka
by Bogdan D. Suceavă - 68-70 The Essence of Numbers
by Andrew Simoson - 71-73 Reckonings: Numerals, Cognition, and History by Stephen Chrisomalis
by Andrew Simoson - 74-75 Bicycle or Unicycle? A Collection of Intriguing Mathematical Puzzles
by Philip D. Straffin - 76-77 The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread—And Why They Stop
by Sune Lehmann & Jonas L. Juul - 78-78 Stamps of Various Shapes
by Robin Wilson
December 2021, Volume 43, Issue 4
- 1-1 On Translations of Hilbert’s Grundlagen
by Albert C. Lewis - 2-2 A Direct Proof of the Steiner–Lehmus Theorem
by Victor Pambuccian - 3-4 Is There a Direct Geometric Proof of the Steiner–Lehmus Theorem?
by O. A. S. Karamzadeh - 5-15 “Not Just an Idle Game”:
by Ronald Brown - 16-18 Self-Crossing Geodesics
by Anton Petrunin - 19-28 Lessons from the German Tank Problem
by George Clark & Alex Gonye & Steven J. Miller - 29-31 All Tied Up
by Colin Adams - 32-32 Proof without Words: Inequality for the Sum of the Diagonals
by Nenad Stojanović - 33-47 A History of Mathematics in South Africa: Modern Milestones
by Tomoko L. Kitagawa & Eder Kikianty - 48-52 A Replication Crisis in Mathematics?
by Anthony Bordg - 53-59 Sandstone Geometry on the Colorado Plateau
by Stan Wagon & H. Allen Curran - 60-61 Proof Without Words: Sums of Powers of Eight
by Rajib Mukherjee - 62-73 On Mathematical Towers of Babel and “Translation” as an Epistemic Category
by Michael Friedman - 74-75 Final Integer
by Thomas Reed Willemain - 76-81 Changing the Rules: The Legacy of Robert Abbott
by Jim Henle - 83-84 The Secret Formula by Fabio Toscano
by Andrew J. Simoson - 85-88 The Great Rift: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Religion–Science Divide by Michael E. Hobart
by Sam Williams