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Since its founding in 1925, the MAA Press, in partnership with The American Mathematical Society (AMS), has advanced the understanding of mathematics through the publication of high-quality exposition for a diverse mathematical audience. Publishing textbooks, monographs, collegiate-level resources, problem books, and other literary achievements in biography, history, pedagogy, recreational mathematics, and other mathematical interests, the MAA Press has much to offer the mathematics community.

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MAA Press Book Series

Anneli Lax New Mathematical Library books feature fresh approaches and broad coverage of topics especially suitable for high school and the first two years of college. The volumes in this series are an excellent source of enrichment material for teachers and students. Good mathematical reading with lively exposition.

Carus volumes should be expositions of mathematical subjects set forth in a manner comprehensible not only to teachers and students specializing in mathematics, but also to scientific workers in other fields. The monographs are intended for the wide circle of thoughtful people familiar with basic graduate or advanced undergraduate mathematics, encountered in the study of mathematics itself, or in the context of related disciplines, who wish to extend their knowledge without prolonged and critical study of the mathematical journals and treatises.

Classroom Resource Materials contains books and collections of modules often organized around an individual course, mathematical theme, or innovative pedagogical practice. The series also includes unusual textbooks. The focus of books may lie outside the curriculum and instead contribute to other facets of a professor’s teaching mission such as creating undergraduate research programs, introducing career options to math majors, and developing mathematical communities.

Books in the Dolciani Mathematical Expositions series present mathematical elegance and ingenuity across the entire spectrum of mathematics, especially in areas covered in the undergraduate mathematics major. Assumed levels of background range up to that of an undergraduate mathematics major.

The MAA Textbooks Series publishes high-quality textbooks that span the undergraduate mathematics experience. MAA textbooks range from those used in a first mathematics or quantitative literacy course to those used in upper-level mathematics courses. The series prizes and produces well-written and thoughtfully structured textbooks that provide value for both students and instructors. The series aims to produce highest quality affordable alternatives to for-profit publishers for undergraduate instruction. They are written by college and university faculty and are carefully reviewed by an editorial board of teaching faculty in order to ensure superior exposition.

This series will include a variety of books related to problems and problem-solving, including collections of problems from prominent mathematical competitions, collections of problems specific to particular branches of mathematics, and books on the art and practice of problem-solving.

Containing works of biography, history, popular exposition, and the relationship between math and the arts and sciences, the Spectrum volumes tend to be broadly appealing to the general mathematically interested reader, including students and teachers of mathematics, mathematical amateurs, and researchers. Spectrum Books will consist of wide-ranging, high-quality volumes that complement existing series and round out the MAA Press’ overall book publishing program. Occasional reprints of outstanding out-of-print books might also become Spectrum volumes.