The Mathematical Association of America ( MAA ) is a professional society that focuses on mathematics accessible at the undergraduate level. Members include university , college , and high school teachers; graduate and undergraduate students; pure and applied mathematicians ; computer scientists ; statisticians ; and many others in academia, government, business, and industry.
16-588: The Beckenbach Book Prize , formerly known as the Mathematical Association of America Book Prize, is awarded to authors of distinguished, innovative books that have been published by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) . The prize, named in honor of Edwin F. Beckenbach , was established in 1983 and first awarded in 1985. The award is $ 2500 for the honored author and is awarded on an irregular basis. In January 1985 Charles Robert Hadlock
32-442: A set of classroom notes. The MAA publishes several book series, aimed at a broad audience, but primarily for undergraduates majoring in mathematics. The series are: Anneli Lax New Mathematical Library , Carus Mathematical Monographs , Classroom Resource Materials , Dolciani Mathematical Expositions , MAA Notes , MAA Textbooks , Problem Books , and Spectrum . The MAA sponsors numerous competitions for students, including
48-595: A standing ovation, recorded that: The Association's first woman president was Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (1979–1980). The presidents of the MAA: Lester R. Ford Lester Randolph Ford Sr. (October 25, 1886 – November 11, 1967) was an American mathematician, editor of the American Mathematical Monthly from 1942 to 1946, and president of the Mathematical Association of America from 1947 to 1948. Ford circles are named after him. He
64-603: Is devoted to the solution of problems…No pains will be spared on the part of the Editors to make this the most interesting and most popular journal published in America." The MAA records are preserved as part of the Archives of American Mathematics . The MAA has for a long time followed a strict policy of inclusivity and non-discrimination. In previous periods it was subject to the same problems of discrimination that were widespread across
80-480: Is the association member newsletter. The Association publishes an online resource, Mathematical Sciences Digital Library (Math DL). The service launched in 2001 with the online-only Journal of Online Mathematics and its Applications (JOMA) and a set of classroom tools, Digital Classroom Resources . These were followed in 2004 by Convergence , an online-only history magazine, and in 2005 by MAA Reviews , an online book review service, and Classroom Capsules and Notes ,
96-665: Is the father of L. R. Ford Jr. Ford's first degree, Bachelor of Pedagogy , was from a normal school in Missouri . He then attended the University of Missouri in Columbia , graduating with a B.A. in 1911. For graduate work he went to Harvard University in 1912 and 13. Ford was then called to Scotland , where in 1914 he was instructor of mathematics at University of Edinburgh . Games of chess on campus gave Ford some social contact and reputation. In 1915 Ford published An Introduction to
112-639: The William Lowell Putnam Competition for undergraduate students, the online competition series, and the American Mathematics Competitions (AMC) for middle- and high-school students. This series of competitions is as follows: Through this program, outstanding students are identified and invited to participate in the Mathematical Olympiad Program . Ultimately, six high school students are chosen to represent
128-1029: The Yueh-Gin Gung and Dr. Charles Y. Hu Award for Distinguished Service to Mathematics , and Beckenbach Book Prize . The MAA is one of four partners in the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics (JPBM), and participates in the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences (CBMS), an umbrella organization of sixteen professional societies. A detailed history of the first fifty years of the MAA appears in May (1972) . A report on activities prior to World War II appears in Bennett (1967) . Further details of its history can be found in Case (1996) . In addition numerous regional sections of
144-616: The MAA have published accounts of their local history. The MAA was established in 1915. But the roots of the Association can be traced to the 1894 founding of the American Mathematical Monthly by Benjamin Finkel, who wrote "Most of our existing journals deal almost exclusively with subjects beyond the reach of the average student or teacher of mathematics or at least with subjects with which they are familiar, and little, if any, space,
160-614: The Mathematical Association of America (SIGMAAs). These SIGMAAs were established to advance the MAA mission by supporting groups with a common mathematical interest, and facilitating interaction between such groups and the greater mathematics community. The MAA distributes many prizes, including the Chauvenet Prize and the Carl B. Allendoerfer Award , Trevor Evans Award , Lester R. Ford Award, George Pólya Award , Merten M. Hasse Prize , Henry L. Alder Award , Euler Book Prize awards,
176-615: The Theory of Automorphic Functions as Edinburgh Mathematical Tract # 6. Returning to Harvard in 1917, Ford was awarded his Ph.D. for the thesis Rational Approximations to an Irrational Complex Number , under the supervision of Maxime Bôcher . Later Ford joined the faculty of Rice Institute in Houston, Texas . There he married Marguerite Eleanor John on 15 June 1924. Moving north to Chicago , Ford taught at Armour Institute , soon to become Illinois Institute of Technology. From there he went to
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#1733086139549192-671: The U.S. at the International Mathematics Olympiad . The MAA is composed of the following twenty-nine regional sections: Allegheny Mountain, EPADEL, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Intermountain, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana/Mississippi, MD-DC-VA, Metro New York, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska – SE SD, New Jersey, North Central, Northeastern, Northern CA – NV-HI, Ohio, Oklahoma-Arkansas, Pacific Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Seaway, Southeastern, Southern CA – NV, Southwestern, Texas, Wisconsin There are seventeen Special Interest Groups of
208-643: The United States. One notorious incident at a south-eastern sectional meeting in Nashville in 1951 has been documented by the American mathematician and equal rights activist Lee Lorch , who in 2007 received the most prestigious award given by the MAA (the Yueh-Gin Gung and Dr. Charles Y. Hu Award for Distinguished Service to Mathematics). The citation delivered at the 2007 MAA awards presentation, where Lorch received
224-525: The editorship of The American Mathematical Monthly during World War II . Ford was president of the Mathematical Association of America for 1947,8. In 1964, the MAA recognised his contribution to mathematics by establishing the Lester R. Ford Awards for authors of articles of expository excellence published in The American Mathematical Monthly or Mathematics Magazine . (The prize
240-701: The most widely read mathematics journal in the world according to records on JSTOR . The MAA sponsors the annual summer MathFest and cosponsors with the American Mathematical Society the Joint Mathematics Meeting , held in early January of each year. On occasion the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics joins in these meetings. Twenty-nine regional sections also hold regular meetings. The association publishes multiple journals in partnership with Taylor & Francis : MAA FOCUS
256-647: Was awarded the MAA Book Prize, which later in 1985 became the Beckenbach Book Prize. The recipients of the Beckenbach Book Prize and their books are: Mathematical Association of America The MAA was founded in 1915 and is headquartered at 11 Dupont in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The organization publishes mathematics journals and books, including the American Mathematical Monthly (established in 1894 by Benjamin Finkel ),
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