''The American Mathematical Monthly'' is a
mathematical journal founded by
Benjamin Finkel 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 Awards annually to "authors of articles of expository excellence" published in the ''American Mathematical Monthly''.
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Editors
*2022– :
Della Dumbaugh
*2017–2021:
Susan Colley
Susan Jane Colley (née Morris, born 1959) is an American mathematician. She is Andrew and Pauline Delaney Professor of Mathematics at Oberlin College, and a former editor-in-chief of the ''American Mathematical Monthly''. Her mathematical research ...
*2012–2016:
Scott T. Chapman
*2007–2011:
Daniel J. Velleman
*2002–2006:
Bruce Palka
*1997–2001:
Roger A. Horn
*1992–1996:
John H. Ewing
John H. Ewing (October 16, 1918 – May 31, 2012) was an American Republican Party politician who served in both houses of the New Jersey Legislature: in the General Assembly from 1968 to 1977 and in the State Senate from 1978 to 1998, representi ...
*1987–1991:
Herbert S. Wilf
*1982–1986:
Paul Richard Halmos
*1978–1981:
Ralph Philip Boas, Jr.
*1977–1978: Alex Rosenberg and Ralph Philip Boas Jr.
*1974–1976:
Alex Rosenberg
*1969–1973:
Harley Flanders
Harley M. Flanders (September 13, 1925 – July 26, 2013) was an American mathematician, known for several textbooks and contributions to his fields: algebra and algebraic number theory, linear algebra, electrical networks, scientific computing.
...
*1967–1968:
Robert Abraham Rosenbaum
*1962–1966:
Frederick Arthur Ficken
*1957–1961:
Ralph Duncan James
*1952–1956:
Carl Barnett Allendoerfer
*1947–1951:
Carroll Vincent Newsom
*1942–1946:
Lester Randolph Ford
*1937–1941:
Elton James Moulton
*1932–1936:
Walter Buckingham Carver
*1927–1931:
William Henry Bussey
*1923–1926:
Walter Burton Ford
*1922:
Albert Arnold Bennett
*1919–1921:
Raymond Clare Archibald
*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 ...
*1916–1917:
Herbert Ellsworth Slaught
*1914–1915: Board of editors:
C.H. Ashton,
R.P. Baker,
W.C. Brenke,
W.H. Bussey,
W.DeW. Cairns,
Florian Cajori,
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
George Abram Miller (31 July 1863 – 10 February 1951) was an early group theorist.
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 Coll ...
*1907–1908: Benjamin Franklin Finkel,
Herbert Ellsworth Slaught
*1905–1906: Benjamin Franklin Finkel, Leonard Eugene Dickson,
Oliver Edmunds Glenn
Oliver Edmunds Glenn (October 3, 1878 – ?) was a mathematician at the University of Pennsylvania who worked on finite groups and invariant theory.
He received the degrees of A.B. in 1902 and A.M. in 1903 from Indiana University and the Ph.D. ...
*1904: Benjamin Franklin Finkel, Leonard Eugene Dickson,
Saul Epsteen
*1903: Benjamin Franklin Finkel,
Leonard Eugene Dickson
*1894–1902:
Benjamin Franklin Finkel,
John Marvin Colaw
See also
*''
Mathematics Magazine''
*''
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 sinc ...
'', another "most widely read mathematics journal in the world"
Notes
External links
*
American Mathematical Monthly' homepage
Mathematical Association of America''American Mathematical Monthly'' on JSTOR''The American mathematical monthly'', hathitrust
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Mathematics journals
Publications established in 1894
Academic journals published by learned and professional societies of the United States
10 times per year journals
English-language journals
Mathematical Association of America