Anthology – Mathematical Association of America

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Why does perceiving another person feel like tracing paths on the surface of a sphere?

By Aji Kang Recently I have been spending a lot of time talking with my mom, and we have been pondering together over what makes people into the people they are. Naturally, these discussions have made me wonder what makes me perceive people as the people they are. I noticed that there is a clear...

Modernizing Undergraduate Mathematics

By David Bressoud @dbressoud As of 2024, new Launchings columns appear on the third Tuesday of the month. The recent New York Times article, “They Spent Years on a Math Problem. Then They Were Scooped by A.I.” is one illustration of how fast and dramatically the mathematical landscape is changing. We do not need a wholesale...

Selected Works I: Mathematics and Mechanics

Note that this is a reprint of an edition originally published in 1991. Andrei Kolmogorov (1903-1987) was one of the great mathematicians of the 20th century. He was the founder of the Soviet school of probability theory (effectively axiomatizing the subject), information, ergodic theory, mechanics and the theory of turbulence. His interests ranged over very...