''The American Mathematical Monthly'' is a

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journal founded by

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in 1894. It is published ten times each year by

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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

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. Tables of contents with article abstracts from 1997–2010 are availabl
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The MAA gives the

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s annually to "authors of articles of expository excellence" published in the ''American Mathematical Monthly''.

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:

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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. Ralph Philip Boas Jr. (August 8, 1912 – July 25, 1992) was a mathematician, teacher, and journal editor. He wrote over 200 papers, mainly in the fields of real analysis, real and complex analysis.. 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:

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*1962–1966:

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*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. Background Allendoerfer was born in Kansas City, the son o ...

*1947–1951:

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*1942–1946:

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*1937–1941:

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*1932–1936:

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*1927–1931:

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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:

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*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''. Life and work Slaught, born in the Finger Lakes are ...

*1914–1915: Board of editors:

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Florian Cajori Florian Cajori (February 28, 1859 – August 14 or 15, 1930) was a Swiss-American historian of mathematics. Biography Florian Cajori was born in Zillis, Switzerland, as the son of Georg Cajori and Catherine Camenisch. He attended schools first ...

, 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,

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*1907–1908: Benjamin Franklin Finkel,

*1905–1906: Benjamin Franklin Finkel, Leonard Eugene Dickson, Oliver Edmunds Glenn *1904: Benjamin Franklin Finkel, Leonard Eugene Dickson,

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*1903: Benjamin Franklin Finkel,

Leonard Eugene Dickson Leonard Eugene Dickson (January 22, 1874 – January 17, 1954) was an American mathematician. He was one of the first American researchers in abstract algebra, in particular the theory of finite fields and classical groups, and is also reme ...

*1894–1902: Benjamin Franklin Finkel,

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