''Crux Mathematicorum'' is a

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published by the

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. It contains mathematical problems for

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and

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students. , its editor-in-chief is

Kseniya Garaschuk Kseniya Garaschuk (born 1982) is a Soviet-born Canadian mathematician and mathematics educator. She is an associate professor of mathematics and statistics at the University of the Fraser Valley, and the editor-in-chief of the mathematics journal ...

. The journal was established in 1975, under the name ''Eureka'', by the Carleton-Ottawa Mathematics Association, with Léo Sauvé as its first

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. It took the name ''Crux Mathematicorum'' with its fourth volume, in 1978, to avoid confusion with another journal ''

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'' published by the Cambridge University Mathematical Society. The Canadian Mathematical Society took over the journal in 1985, and soon afterwards G.W. (Bill) Sands became its new editor. Bruce L. R. Shawyer took over as editor in 1996. In 1997 it merged with another journal founded in 1988, ''Mathematical Mayhem'', to become ''Crux Mathematicorum with Mathematical Mayhem''. Jim Totten became editor in 2003, and Václav (Vazz) Linek replaced him in 2008.

Ross Honsberger Ross Honsberger (1929–2016) was a Canadian mathematician and author on recreational mathematics. Life Honsberger studied mathematics at the University of Toronto, with a bachelor's degree, and then worked for ten years as a teacher in Toronto ...

writes that "for interesting elementary problems, this publication is in a class by itself". The journal is also known for reviving interest in Japanese temple geometry problems by publishing a series of them beginning in 1984. The websit
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has made available problems involving

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from its first four volumes and calls the publication "the best problem solving journal all over the world". Since January 2019, Crux Mathematicorum became a free online publication thanks to the support of the Intact Foundation.

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