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20-520: Mathematics Magazine is a continuation of Mathematics News Letter (1926–1934) and National Mathematics Magazine (1934–1945). Doris Schattschneider became the first female editor of Mathematics Magazine in 1981. The MAA gives the Carl B. Allendoerfer Awards annually "for articles of expository excellence" published in Mathematics Magazine . This article about a mathematics journal

40-757: A fellow of the American Mathematical Society . She delivered the Martin Gardner Lecture at MathFest in August 2021. Mathematical Association of America 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. The MAA

60-557: A previously unknown type of pentagon tiling by February 1976. She drew up several tessellations by these new pentagon tiles and mailed her discoveries to  Martin Gardner . He, in turn, sent Rice's work to Schattschneider, who was an expert in tiling patterns. Schattschneider was skeptical at first, but upon careful examination, was able to validate Rice's results. Schattschneider not only helped Martin Gardner publicize the pentagon tilings discoveries of Rice, but lauded her work as

80-399: A significant discovery by an amateur mathematician. In 1995, at a regional meeting of the  Mathematical Association of America  held in Los Angeles, Schattschneider convinced Rice and her husband to attend her lecture on Rice's work. At the conclusion of the talk, Schattschneider introduced the amateur mathematician who had advanced the study of tessellation. "And everybody in

100-477: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See tips for writing articles about academic journals . Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page . Doris Schattschneider Doris J. Schattschneider (née Wood) is an American mathematician, a retired professor of mathematics at Moravian College . She is known for writing about tessellations and about the art of M. C. Escher , for helping Martin Gardner validate and popularize

120-603: 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

140-643: 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 is the association member newsletter. The Association publishes an online resource, Mathematical Sciences Digital Library (Math DL). The service launched in 2001 with

160-632: The New York City Bureau of Bridge Design. Her family moved to Lake Placid, New York during World War II , while her father served as an engineer for the U. S. Army; she began her schooling in Lake Placid, but returned to Staten Island after the war. She did her undergraduate studies in mathematics at the University of Rochester , and earned a Ph.D. in 1966 from Yale University under the joint supervision of Tsuneo Tamagawa and Ichirô Satake with

180-639: 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

200-1029: 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

220-476: The pentagon tiling discoveries of amateur mathematician Marjorie Rice , and for co-directing with Eugene Klotz the project that developed The Geometer's Sketchpad . Schattschneider was born in Staten Island ; her mother, Charlotte Lucile Ingalls Wood, taught Latin and was herself the daughter of a Staten Island school principal, and her father, Robert W. Wood, Jr., was an electrical engineer who worked for

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240-616: 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,

260-635: 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,

280-537: The Rev. Dr. David A. Schattschneider (1939-2016), a church historian and Dean of Moravian Theological Seminary ; their daughter Laura Ellen Schattschneider is a lawyer. Marjorie Rice was an amateur mathematician and San Diego mother of five who became fascinated by Martin Gardner's descriptions of tessellations by pentagonal tiles in Scientific American. She investigated, and devising her own notation system, had found

300-671: 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

320-643: 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

340-756: 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 , 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

360-601: The room . . . gave her a standing ovation." Schattschneider won the Mathematical Association of America 's Carl B. Allendoerfer Award for excellence in expository writing in Mathematics Magazine in 1979, for her article "Tiling the plane with congruent pentagons". In 1993, she received the Deborah and Franklin Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics . In 2012, she became

380-415: The thesis, Restricted Roots of a Semi-simple Algebraic Group . She taught at Northwestern University for a year and at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle for three years before joining the faculty of Moravian College in 1968, where she remained for 34 years until her retirement. She was the first female editor of Mathematics Magazine , from 1981 to 1985. She was married for 54 years to

400-543: 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 ), the most widely read mathematics journal in the world according to records on JSTOR . The MAA sponsors the annual summer MathFest and cosponsors with

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