''The American Mathematical Monthly'' is a
mathematical
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journal founded by
Benjamin Finkel
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Benjamin Franklin Finkel (July 5, 1865 – February 5, 1862) was a mathematician and educator most remembered today as the founder of the American Mathematical Monthly journal. Born in Fairfield County, Ohio and educated in small country sc ...
in 1894. It is published ten times each year by
Taylor & Francis
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for the
Mathematical Association of America.
The ''American Mathematical Monthly'' is an expository journal intended for a wide audience of mathematicians, from undergraduate students to research professionals. Articles are chosen on the basis of their broad interest and reviewed and edited for quality of exposition as well as content. In this the ''American Mathematical Monthly'' fulfills a different role from that of typical mathematical research journals. The ''American Mathematical Monthly'' is the most widely read mathematics journal in the world according to records on
JSTOR
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.
Tables of contents with article abstracts from 1997–2010 are availabl
online
The MAA gives the
Lester R. Ford Award
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s annually to "authors of articles of expository excellence" published in the ''American Mathematical Monthly''.
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Editors
*2022– :
Della Dumbaugh
Della Jeanne Dumbaugh (also published as Della Dumbaugh Fenster) is an American mathematician and history of mathematics, historian of mathematics, focusing on the history of algebra and number theory. She is a professor of mathematics at the Un ...
*2017–2021:
Susan Colley
*2012–2016:
Scott T. Chapman
*2007–2011:
Daniel J. Velleman
*2002–2006:
Bruce Palka
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*1997–2001:
Roger A. Horn
*1992–1996:
John H. Ewing
*1987–1991:
Herbert S. Wilf
Herbert Saul Wilf (June 13, 1931 – January 7, 2012) was a mathematician, specializing in combinatorics and graph theory. He was the Thomas A. Scott Professor of Mathematics in Combinatorial Analysis and Computing at the University of Pennsylv ...
*1982–1986:
Paul Richard Halmos
Paul Richard Halmos ( hu, Halmos Pál; March 3, 1916 – October 2, 2006) was a Hungarian-born American mathematician and statistician who made fundamental advances in the areas of mathematical logic, probability theory, statistics, operator ...
*1978–1981:
Ralph Philip Boas, Jr.
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Biography
He was born in Walla Walla, Washi ...
*1977–1978: Alex Rosenberg and Ralph Philip Boas Jr.
*1974–1976:
Alex Rosenberg
*1969–1973:
Harley Flanders
*1967–1968:
Robert Abraham Rosenbaum
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*1962–1966:
Frederick Arthur Ficken Frederick may refer to:
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* Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Harzgerode (1613–1670)
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* Frederic ...
*1957–1961:
Ralph Duncan James Ralph Duncan James (8 February 1909, Liverpool, England – 19 May 1979, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada) was a Canadian mathematician working on number theory and mathematical analysis.
Born in Liverpool, Ralph moved with his parents ...
*1952–1956:
Carl Barnett Allendoerfer
Carl Barnett Allendoerfer (April 4, 1911 – September 29, 1974) was an American mathematician in the mid-twentieth century, known for his work in topology and mathematics education.
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Allendoerfer was born in Kansas City, the son o ...
*1947–1951:
Carroll Vincent Newsom
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Newsom was born February 23, 1904, in Buckley, Illinois, Buckl ...
*1942–1946:
Lester Randolph Ford
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*1937–1941:
Elton James Moulton Elton may refer to:
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** Elton Hall, a baronial hall
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* Elton, Derbyshir ...
*1932–1936:
Walter Buckingham Carver
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*1927–1931:
William Henry Bussey
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*1923–1926:
Walter Burton Ford
Walter Burton Ford (May 18, 1874 in Oneonta, New York – February 24, 1971 in Seneca County, New York) was an American mathematician and philanthropist.
Career
The Great Comet of 1882 sparked his interest in mathematics.
He graduated from One ...
*1922:
Albert Arnold Bennett
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Albert was born in Pennsylvani ...
*1919–1921:
Raymond Clare Archibald
Raymond Clare Archibald (7 October 1875 – 26 July 1955) was a prominent Canadian-American mathematician. He is known for his work as a historian of mathematics, his editorships of mathematical journals and his contributions to the teaching of ...
*1918:
Robert Daniel Carmichael
Robert Daniel Carmichael (March 1, 1879 – May 2, 1967) was an American mathematician.
Biography
Carmichael was born in Goodwater, Alabama. He attended Lineville College, briefly, and he earned his bachelor's degree in 1898, while he was st ...
*1916–1917:
Herbert Ellsworth Slaught
Herbert Ellsworth Slaught (1861–1937) was an American mathematician who was president of the Mathematical Association of America and editor of the journal ''American Mathematical Monthly''.
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*1914–1915: Board of editors:
C.H. Ashton
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,
W.DeW. Cairns,
Florian Cajori
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,
R.D. Carmichael,
D.R. Curtiss,
I.M. DeLong, B.F. Finkel,
E.R. Hedrick,
L.C. Karpinski, G.A. Miller,
W.H. Roever, H.E. Slaught
*1913: Herbert Ellsworth Slaught
*1909–1912: Benjamin Franklin Finkel, Herbert Ellsworth Slaught,
George Abram Miller
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At age 17 Miller began school-teaching to raise funds for higher education. In 1882 he entered Franklin and Marshall Academy, and progressed to Muhlenberg Colle ...
*1907–1908: Benjamin Franklin Finkel,
Herbert Ellsworth Slaught
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Slaught, born in the Finger Lakes are ...
*1905–1906: Benjamin Franklin Finkel, Leonard Eugene Dickson,
Oliver Edmunds Glenn
*1904: Benjamin Franklin Finkel, Leonard Eugene Dickson,
Saul Epsteen
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*1903: Benjamin Franklin Finkel,
Leonard Eugene Dickson
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*1894–1902:
Benjamin Franklin Finkel,
John Marvin Colaw
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See also
*''
Mathematics Magazine
''Mathematics Magazine'' is a refereed bimonthly publication of the Mathematical Association of America. Its intended audience is teachers of collegiate mathematics, especially at the junior/senior level, and their students. It is explicitly a j ...
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Notices of the American Mathematical Society
''Notices of the American Mathematical Society'' is the membership journal of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), published monthly except for the combined June/July issue. The first volume appeared in 1953. Each issue of the magazine since ...
'', another "most widely read mathematics journal in the world"
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External links
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Mathematical Association of America''American Mathematical Monthly'' on JSTOR''The American mathematical monthly'', hathitrust
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