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Nov 15, 2021

Testimonios: Dr. Selenne Bañuelos

Testimonios, a new publication from MAA/AMS, brings together first-person narratives from the vibrant, diverse, and complex Latinx and Hispanic mathematical community. Starting with childhood and family, the authors recount their own particular stories, highlighting their upbringing, education, and career paths. Testimonios seeks to inspire the next generation of Latinx and Hispanic mathematicians by featuring the…

Nov 4, 2021

Equation Poetry

By Radoslav Rochallyi This article is about structural mathematical poetry, a particular kind of concrete poetry in which the typography and layout of the text emphasizes the overall effect. Although the theme of concrete poetry has been described a thousand times in countless places after the Guillaume Apollinaire era, there is still room for concrete…

Oct 28, 2021

Dabble in Data with CODAP

By R. N. Uma, NC Central University (NCCU) R.N. Uma Have you ever wished all your students could dabble in data with ease? Has the task of introducing students to spreadsheets (e.g., Microsoft Excel) and programming languages (e.g., R) for data visualization and analyses seemed daunting? My collaborators and I were facing this predicament when…

Oct 18, 2021

Graphs and Geometry

Lázló Lovász sets the goal clearly in the preface: “Graphs are usually represented as geometric objects drawn in the plane, consisting of nodes and curves connecting them. The main message of this book is that such a representation is not merely a way to visualize the graph, but an important mathematical tool.” The author is…

Cover of 'Graphs and Geometry' by László Lovász, featuring a minimalist design with the title and author's name prominently displayed on a solid background.
Oct 15, 2021

Testimonios: Dr. Federico Ardila Mantilla

Testimonios, a new publication from MAA/AMS, brings together first-person narratives from the vibrant, diverse, and complex Latinx and Hispanic mathematical community. Starting with childhood and family, the authors recount their own particular stories, highlighting their upbringing, education, and career paths. Testimonios seeks to inspire the next generation of Latinx and Hispanic mathematicians by featuring the…

Oct 5, 2021

Playing with Place Value

James Tanton By James Tanton @jamestanton, Facebook: James Tanton, LinkedIn: James Tanton The invention of place value is one of humankind’s greatest intellectual achievements. Yet, as natural and straightforward as it seems to us today—that “333,” for instance, represents three-hundreds and three-tens and three-ones despite the repeated use of the one symbol “3”—is a concept…

Sep 15, 2021

Testimonios: Dr. James A. M. Álvarez

Testimonios, a new publication from MAA/AMS, brings together first-person narratives from the vibrant, diverse, and complex Latinx and Hispanic mathematical community. Starting with childhood and family, the authors recount their own particular stories, highlighting their upbringing, education, and career paths. Testimonios seeks to inspire the next generation of Latinx and Hispanic mathematicians by featuring the…

Jul 4, 2021

Discrete Energy on Rectifiable Sets

The book under review is a study of minimal energy problems that are posed for manifolds. In each case a set of discretizations is considered for the manifold in question and global and local minima are sought for an energy function which is generated by a kernel that mimics pairwise interactions of particles. The ideas herein are…

Book cover of "Discrete Energy on Rectifiable Sets" by Sergiy V. Borodachov, Douglas P. Hardin, and Edward B. Saff, part of the Springer Monographs in Mathematics series. The design features a yellow and dark blue background with a subtle radial pattern in the upper section, and the Springer logo at the bottom.
May 14, 2021

MAA Awards $178k to Engage 800 Students In Innovative Mathematics Programs Supporting Women and Students of Color

Math faculty’s resilience during the pandemic creates opportunities for over 800 students at 32 institutions around the nation. This was made possible by the generous support from Mary P. Dolciani Halloran Foundation and Tensor Foundation. WASHINGTON, DC (May 14, 2021) — Mathematical Association of America’s (MAA) outreach initiatives embody MAA’s core values: community, inclusivity, communication,…

Mar 1, 2021

Preparing Math Majors for Careers

By: David Bressoud @dbressoud David Bressoud is DeWitt Wallace Professor Emeritus at Macalester College and Director of the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences Transforming Post-Secondary Education in Mathematics (TPSEMath) has partnered with the Education and Employment Research Center (EERC) at Rutgers to create a series of six reports that describe what departments can do…