MAA Feature Articles

Free sample articles and extended articles from MAA's five journals: The American Mathematical Monthly, Mathematics Magazine, MAA FOCUS, The College Mathematics Journal, and Math Horizons. For subscribers, read recent issues online (Requires MAA Membership).

"A Knight's Tour de Force"  by Adam Berliner Adam Berliner explains the ideas behind an intricate sculpture that hangs in the math department at St. Olaf College. It was designed and built by Professor Emeritus Loren Larson, and it can be interpreted as a very constructive proof for the existence of a three-dimensional knight’s tour. Read the full article in the April issue of Math Horizons (pdf).

• Giant Tangrams Add Challenge to Navy Prep School Competition (MAA FOCUS, June/July 2011)
• Solution to "Ladder Games" (MAA FOCUS, June/July 2011)
• Ethnomathematics Shows Students Their Connections to Math (MAA FOCUS, April/May 2011)
• Road to Partition: Unveiling the Fractal Structure of Partition Numbers by Adriana Salerno (MAA FOCUS, April/May 2011)
• The Undergraduate Research Poster Session by Joyati Debnath (MAA FOCUS, April/May 2011)
• Reports of SIGMAAs (MAA FOCUS, April/May 2011)
• Was Cantor Surprised? by Fernando Gouvêa (The American Mathematical Monthly, March 2011)
• Yueh-Gin Gung and Dr. Charles Y. Hu Award for 2011 to Joseph A. Gallian for Distinguished Service to Mathematics by Barbara Faires (The American Mathematical Monthly, March 2011)
• MAA Updates Its Test for Calculus Readiness by Marilyn Carlson, Bernard Madison, and Rich West (MAA FOCUS, February/March 2011)
• MAA / Maplesoft Placement Testing Package Expands by Bernard Madison (MAA FOCUS, February/March 2011)
• Why Publish with the MAA? by Don Albers (MAA FOCUS, February/March 2011)
• Math and the Arts: A Mandelbrot Sunset (pdf) (Math Horizons, February 2011)
• Math Article Shows Collaboration Is Not Limited by Geography—or Age by Laura McHugh (December 13, 2010)
• Martin Gardner Tribute in MAA FOCUS and other Gardner Resources (October 20, 2010)
• The Convergence of Difference Boxes (The American Mathematical Monthly, May 2005)