Good history of mathematics is good research and writing. The various award committees of the Mathematical Association of America have frequently rewarded that good writing. The lists on the following pages highlight MAA award-winning articles and books on the history of mathematics. Most are hyperlinked to freely-available reprints. Enjoy perusing this high-quality, highly-readable scholarship!
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For expository articles published in Mathematics Magazine.
William Dunham
The Early (and Peculiar) History of the Möbius Function
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 91, no. 2, March 2018, pp. 83–91.
Jordan Bell and Viktor Blåsjö
Pietro Mengoli’s 1650 Proof that the Harmonic Series Diverges
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 91, no. 5, December 2018, pp. 341–347.
Khristo N. Boyadzhiev
Close Encounters with the Stirling Numbers of the Second Kind
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 85, no. 4, October 2012, pp. 252–266.
Adrian Rice and Ezra (Bud) Brown
Why Ellipses Are Not Elliptic Curves
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 85, no. 3, June 2012, pp. 163–176.
Ezra (Bud) Brown and Keith Mellinger
Kirkman's Schoolgirls Wearing Hats and Walking Through Fields of Numbers
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 82, no. 1, February 2009, pp. 3–15.
Jeff Suzuki
A Brief History of Impossibility
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 81, no. 1, February 2008, pp. 27–38.
Chris Christensen
Polish Mathematicians Finding Patterns in Enigma Messages
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 80, no. 4 (2007), pp. 247–273.
Saul Stahl
The Evolution of the Normal Distribution
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 79, no. 2 (2006), pp. 96–113.
Jeff Suzuki
The Lost Calculus (1637–1670): Tangency and Optimization without Limits
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 78, no. 5 (2005), pp. 339–353.
Mark McKinzie and Curtis Tuckey
Higher Trigonometry, Hyperreal Numbers, and Euler's Analysis of Infinities
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 74, no. 5 (2001), pp. 339–368.
Donald Teets and Karen Whitehead
The Discovery of Ceres: How Gauss Became Famous
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 72, no. 2 (1999), pp. 83–91.
Judith Grabiner
Descartes and Problem-Solving
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 68, no. 2 (1995), pp. 83–97.
Lee Badger
Lazzarini's Lucky Approximation of π
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 67, no. 2 (1994), pp. 83–91.
Israel Kleiner
Rigor and Proof in Mathematics: A Historical Perspective
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 64, no. 5 (1991), pp. 291–314.
Ranjan Roy
The Discovery of the Series Formula for π by Leibniz, Gregory, and Nilakantha
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 63, no. 5 (1990), pp. 291–306.
Thomas Archibald
Connectivity and Smoke-Rings: Green's Second Identity in Its First Fifty Years
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 62, no. 4 (1989), pp. 219–232.
Judith V. Grabiner
The Centrality of Mathematics in the History of Western Thought
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 61, no. 4 (1988), pp. 220–230.
Israel Kleiner
The Evolution of Group Theory: A Brief Survey
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 59, no. 4 (1986), pp. 195–215.
Saul Stahl
The Other Map Coloring Theorem
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 58, no. 3 (1985), pp. 131–145.
Judith V. Grabiner
The Changing Concept of Change: The Derivative from Fermat to Weierstrass
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 56, no. 4 (1983), pp. 195–206.
Ernst Snapper
The Three Crises in Mathematics: Logicism, Intuitionism, and Formalism
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 52, no. 4 (1979), pp. 207–216.
Bruce C. Berndt
Ramanujan's Notebooks
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 51, no. 3 (1978), pp. 147–164.
David A. Smith
Human Population Growth: Stability or Explosion?
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 50, no. 4 (1977), pp. 186–197.
Joseph A. Gallian
The Search for Finite Simple Groups
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 49, no. 4 (1976), pp. 163–180.
B.L. van der Waerden
Hamilton's Discovery of Quaternions
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 49, no. 5 (1976), pp. 227–234.
For the authors of distinguished, innovative books published by the MAA.
Seth Braver
Lobachevski Illuminated
MAA Spectrum, 2011.
Judith Grabiner
A Historian Looks Back: The Calculus as Algebra and Selected Writings
MAA Spectrum, 2010.
William Dunham
Euler: The Master of Us All
Dolciani Mathematical Expositions, 1999.
William P. Berlinghoff and Fernando Q. Gouvêa
Math through the Ages: A Gentle History for Teachers and Others
The Mathematical Association of America & Oxton House Publishers, 2004.
David M. Bressoud
Proofs and Confirmations, The Story of the Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture
MAA Spectrum, 1999.
Constance Reid
The Search for E.T. Bell, Also Known as John Taine
MAA Spectrum, 1993.
Thomas M. Thompson
From Error-Correcting Codes through Sphere Packings to Simple Groups
Carus Mathematical Monographs, Number 21, 1984.
For an outstanding expository article on a mathematical topic from any publisher.
William Dunham
The Early (and Peculiar) History of the Möbius Function
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 91, no. 2, 2018, 83–91.
Ezra (Bud) Brown and Matthew Crawford
Five Families Around a Well: A New Look at an Old Problem
The College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 49, no. 3, 2018, 162–168.
Brian J. McCartin
e: The Master of All
The Mathematical Intelligencer, Vol. 28, no. 2, 2006, 10–21.
Harold P. Boas
Reflections on the Arbelos
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 113, no. 3, 2006, 236–249.
John Stillwell
The Story of the 120-Cell
Notices of the AMS, Vol. 48, no. 1, January 2001, pp. 17–24.
Thomas C. Hales
Cannonballs and Honeycombs
Notices of the AMS, Vol. 47, no. 4, April 2000, pp. 440–449.
Michael I. Rosen
Niels Hendrik Abel and Equations of the Fifth Degree
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 102, June–July 1995, pp. 495–505.
Tom Hawkins
The Birth of Lie's Theory of Groups
Mathematical Intelligencer, Vol. 16, 1994, pp. 6–17.
Donald G. Saari
A Visit to the Newtonian N-body Problem Via Elementary Complex Variables
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 97, February 1990, pp. 105–119.
David H. Bailey, Jonathan M. Borwein and Peter B. Borwein
Ramanujan, Modular Equations, and Approximations to Pi, or, How to Compute One Billion Digits of Pi
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 96, March 1989, pp. 201–219.
George Miel
Of Calculations Past and Present: The Archimedean Algorithm
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 90, January 1983, pp. 17–35.
Shreeram S. Abhyankar
Historical Ramblings in Algebraic Geometry and Related Algebra
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 83, June–July 1976, pp. 409–448.
M.D. Davis and Reuben Hersh
Hilbert's 10th Problem
Scientific American, Vol. 229, no. 5, 1973, pp. 84–91.
C.D. Olds
The Simple Continued Fraction Expansion of e
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 77, November 1970, pp. 968–974.
Philip J. Davis
Leonhard Euler's Integral: An Historical Profile of the Gamma Function
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 66, December 1959, pp. 849–869.
For the authors of outstanding books about mathematics from any publisher.
Ian Stewart
In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations that Changed the World
Basic Books, New York, 2012.
David S. Richeson
Euler’s Gem: The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology
Princeton University Press, 2008.
Siobhan Roberts
King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry
Walker and Company, New York, 2006.
Benjamin H. Yandell
The Honors Class. Hilbert's Problems and Their Solvers
AK Peters, Natick, MA, 2002.
John Derbyshire
Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
Joseph Henry Press (National Academies Press), 2003.
For exceptional articles that are accessible to undergraduates and published in Math Horizons.
Randy K. Schwartz
The Birth of the Meter
Math Horizons, September 2008, pp. 14–17, 31.
William Dunham
Euler’s Amicable Numbers
Math Horizons, November 2007, pp. 5–7.
Adrian Rice and Eve Torrence
Lewis Carroll's Condensation Method for Evaluating Determinants
Math Horizons, November 2006, pp. 12–15.
Ronald Barnes and Linda Becerra
The Evolution of Mathematical Certainty
Math Horizons, September 2005, pp. 13–17.
Douglas Dunham
A Tale Both Shocking and Hyperbolic
Math Horizons, April 2003, pp. 22–26.
Hugh McCague
A Mathematical Look at a Medieval Cathedral
Math Horizons, April 2003, pp. 11–15, 31.
Peter Schumer
The Magician of Budapest
Math Horizons, April 1999, pp. 5–9.
Ravi Vakil
The Youngest Tenured Professor in Harvard History
Math Horizons, September 1998, pp. 8–12.
Tom M. Apostol
What Is the Most Surprising Result in Mathematics?
Math Horizons, February 1997, pp. 26–31.
William Dunham
1996-—A Triple Anniversary
Math Horizons, September 1996, pp. 8–13.
Joel Chan
As Easy as Pi
Math Horizons, Winter 1993, pp. 18–19.
Underwood Dudley
Why History?
Math Horizons, November 1994, pp. 10–11.
For outstanding expository papers in The American Mathematical Monthly.
William Dunham
Euler and the Cubic Basel Problem
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 128, no. 4, March 2021, pp. 291–301.
Dominic Klyve and Erik R. Tou
A Prime Testing Algorithm from Leonhard Euler
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 128, no. 8, September 2021, 687–700.
Adrian Rice
Partnership, Partition, and Proof: The Path to the Hardy-Ramanujan Partition Formula
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 125, no. 1, January 2018, pp. 3–15.
Jonathan M. Borwein and Robert M. Corless
Gamma and Factorial in the Monthly
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 125, no. 5, May 2018, pp. 400–424.
Deborah Kent and David Muraki
A Geometric Solution of a Cubic by Omar Khayyam ... in Which Colored Diagrams Are Used Instead of Letters for the Greater Ease of Learners
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 123, no. 2, February 2016, pp. 149–160.
Manya Raman-Sundström
A Pedagogical History of Compactness
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 122, no. 7, August-September 2015, pp. 619–635.
David A. Cox
Why Eisenstein Proved the Eisenstein Criterion and Why Schönemann Discovered It First
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 118, no. 1, January 2011, pp. 3–21.
Marvin Jay Greenberg
Old and New Results in the Foundations of Elementary Plane Euclidean and Non-Euclidean Geometries
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 117, no. 3, March 2010, pp. 198–219.
James T. Smith
Definitions and Nondefinability in Geometry
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 117, no. 6, June 2010, pp. 475–489.
Judith Grabiner
Why Did Lagrange 'Prove' the Parallel Postulate?
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 116, no. 1, January 2009, pp. 3–18.
Bob Palais, Richard Palais, and Stephen Rodi
A Disorienting Look at Euler's Theorem on the Axis of a Rotation
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 116, no. 10, December 2009, pp. 892–909.
Harold P. Boas
Reflections on the Arbelos
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 113, March 2006, pp. 236–249.
William Dunham
Touring the Calculus Gallery
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 112, January 2005, pp. 1–19.
Viktor Blåsjö
The Evolution of the Isoperimetric Problem
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 112, June-July 2005, pp. 526–566.
Judith Grabiner
Newton, Maclaurin, and the Authority of Mathematics
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 111, December 2004, pp. 841–852.
Ruediger Thiele
Hilbert’s Twenty-Fourth Problem
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 110, January 2003, pp. 1–24.
Warren P. Johnson
The Curious History of Faa du Bruno's Formula
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 109, 2002, pp. 217–234.
Eleanor Robson
Words and Pictures: New Light on Plimpton 322
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 109, 2002, pp. 105–120.
David Lindsay Roberts
Moore's Early Twentieth-Century Program for Reform in Mathematics Education
The American Mathematical Monthly,Vol. 108, October 2001, pp. 689–696.
Judith V. Grabiner
Was Newton's calculus a dead end? The continental influence of Maclaurin's Treatise of Fluxions
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 104, May 1997, pp. 393–410.
Bruce Pourciau
Reading the Masters: Newton and the birth of celestial mechanics
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 104, January 1997, pp. 1–19.
Robert Gray
Georg Cantor and transcendental numbers
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 101, November 1994, pp. 819–832.
I. Kleiner and N. Movshovitz-Hadar
The role of paradoxes in the evolution of mathematics
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 101, December 1994, pp. 963–974.
William C. Waterhouse
A counterexample for Germain
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 101, February 1994, pp. 140–150.
Bruce C. Berndt and S. Bhargava
Ramanujan—for lowbrows
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 100, August–September 1993, pp. 644–656.
Edgar R. Lorch (Reuben Hersh, editor)
Szeged in 1934
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 100, March 1993, pp. 219–230.
Gert Almkvist and Bruce Berndt
Gauss, Landen, Ramanujan, the arithmetic-geometric mean, ellipses, pi and the Ladies Diary
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 95, August–September 1988, pp. 585–608.
Stuart S. Antman
Book Review of A Convergence of Lives, Sofia Kovalevskaia: scientist, writer, revolutionary, by A. Hibner Koblitz
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 93, February 1986, pp. 139–144.
Jacob Korevaar
Bieberbach's conjecture and its proof by Louis de Branges
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 93, August–September 1986, pp. 505–514.
Judith Grabiner
Who gave you the epsilon? Cauchy and the origins of rigorous calculus
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 90, March 1983, pp. 185–194.
Tony Rothman
Genius and Biographers: The Fictionalization of Evariste Galois
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 89, February 1982, pp. 84–106.
R. Creighton Buck
Sherlock Holmes in Babylon
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 87, May 1980, pp. 335–345.
Desmond Fearnley-Sander
Hermann Grassmann and the creation of linear algebra
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol 86, December 1979, pp. 809–817.
Shreeram Abhyankar
Historical ramblings in algebraic geometry and related algebra
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 83, June–July 1976, pp. 409–448.
William P. Ziemer, William H. Wheeler, S.H. Moolgavkar, Paul R. Halmos, John H. Ewing and William H. Gustafson
American mathematics from 1940 to the day before yesterday
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 83, August–September 1976, pp. 503–516.
Raymond Ayoub
Euler and the zeta function
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 81, December 1974, pp. 1067–1086.
Lynn A. Steen
Highlights in the history of spectral theory
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 80, April 1973, pp. 359–381.
Jean A. Dieudonné
The historical development of algebraic geometry
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 79, October 1972, pp. 827–866.
Thomas L. Saaty
Thirteen colorful variations on Guthrie's four-color conjecture
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 79, January 1972, pp. 2–43.
R. L. Wilder
History in the mathematics curriculum: Its status, equality, and function
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 79, May 1972, pp. 479–495.
Jean A. Dieudonné
The work of Nicholas Bourbaki
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 77, February 1970, pp. 134–145.
Henry L. Alder
Partition identities—from Euler to the present
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 76, September 1969, pp. 733–746.
William A. Coppel
J.B. Fourier—on the occasion of his two hundredth birthday
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 76, May 1969, pp. 468–483.
For history of mathematics papers by undergraduates, sponsored by MAA’s Special Interest Group for the History of Mathematics.
First Place: Adin Charles Tinsley (Stony Brook University)
“Nicole Oresme and the Revival of Medieval Mathematics”
First Place: Rye Ledford (University of Missouri – Kansas City)
"The Assumptive Attitudes of Western Scholars Regarding the Contributions of Mathematics from India: Assessing yukti-s from the Yuktibhāṣā of Jyeṣṭhadeva"
Second Place: Sarah Szafranski (University of Redlands)
"Estimations of \(\pi\): The Kerala School of Astronomy and Mathematics, The Gregory-Leibniz Series, and the Eurocentrism of Math History"
First Place: Megan Ferguson (Adelphi University)
“The Suan shu shu and the Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art: A Comparison”
First Place: Jeffrey Powers (Grand Rapids Community College)
“Did Archimedes Do Calculus?”
First Place: Amanda Nethington (University of Missouri – Kansas City)
"Achieving Philosophical Perfection: Omar Khayyam's Successful Replacement of Euclid's Parallel Postulate"
First Place: Callie Lane (University of Missouri – Kansas City)
"Race to Refraction: The Repeated Discovery of Snell's Law"
Second Place: Christen Peters (Lee University)
"The Reality of the Complex: The Discovery and Development of Imaginary Numbers"
Second Place: Rachel Talmadge (University of Missouri – Kansas City)
"François Viète Uses Geometry to Solve Three Problems"
First Place: Amanda Akin (Lee University)
“To Infinity and Beyond: A Historical Journey on Contemplating the Infinite”
First Place: Johann Gaebler (Harvard University)
“Traditionalism: 1894 to 1925”
First Place: Nathan Otten (University of Missouri – Kansas City)
“Huygens and The Value of all Chances in Games of Fortune”
First Place: Brittany Anne Carlson (Salt Lake Community College)
“A Latent Element of Alice’s Agency in Wonderland: Conservative Victorian Mathematics”
First Place: William Cole (Lee University)
“The Evolution of the Circle Method in Additive Prime Number Theory”
First Place: Samuel Patterson (University of Missouri – Kansas City)
“Bernard Bolzano, a Genius Unnoticed in His Time”
First Place: Briana Yankie (Lee University)
“Examining Disproved Mathematical Ideas through the Lens of Philosophy”
First Place: Jenna Miller (University of Missouri – Kansas City)
"Casting Light on the Statistical Life of Florence Nightingale"
First Place: Anna Riffe (University of Missouri – Kansas City)
"The Impossible Proof: An Analysis of Adrien-Marie Legendre's Attempts to Prove Euclid's Fifth Postulate."
Second Place: Paul Ayers (University of Missouri – Kansas City)
“Gabriel Cramer: Over 260 Years of Crushing the Unknowns"
Second Place: Mary Ruff (Colorado State University – Pueblo)
“Probability to 1750”
First Place: Matthew Shives (Hood College)
"Paradigms and Mathematics: A Creative Perspective"
First Place: Jesse Hamer (University of Missouri – Kansas City)
“Indivisibles and the Cycloid in the Early 17th Century”
Second Place: Kevin L. Wininger (Otterbein University)
“On the Foundations of X-Ray Computed Tomography in Medicine: A Fundamental Review of the 'Radon transform' and a Tribute to Johann Radon”
First Place: Paul Stahl (University of Missouri - Kansas City)
“Kepler's Development of Mathematical Astronomy”
Second Place: Sarah Costrell (Brandeis University)
“Mathematics and Mathematical Thought in the Quadrivium of Isidore of Seville”
Second Place: Rick Hill (University of Missouri – Kansas City)
“Thomas Harriot's Artis Analyticae Praxis and the Roots of Modern Algebra”
First Place: Jennifer Nielsen (University of Missouri – Kansas City)
“The Heart is a Dust Board: Abu’l Wafa Al-Buzjani, Dissection, Construction, and the Dialog Between Art and Mathematics in Medieval Islamic Culture”
First Place: Palmer Rampell (Phillips Academy and Harvard University)
“The Use of Similarity in Old Babylonian Mathematics”
First Place: Stefanie Streck (Pacific Lutheran University)
“The Fermat Problem”
First Place: Nathan McLaughlin (University of Montana)
“The Mathematical Optics of Sir William Hamilton: Conical Refraction and Quaternions”
Second Place: Tim Chalberg (Pacific Lutheran University)
“Regression Analysis: A Powerful Tool and Riveting Drama”
Honorable Mention: Amy Buchmann (Chapman University)
“A Brief History of Quaternions and the Theory of Holomorphic Functions of Quaternionic Variables”
First Place: Mame Maloney (University of Chicago)
“Constructivism: A Realistic Approach to Math?”
Second Place: Woody Burchett (Georgetown College)
“Thinking Inside the Box: Geometric Interpretation of Quadratic Problems in BM 13901”
Second Place: Cole McGee (Colorado State University – Pueblo)
“Jean Le Rond D'Alembert: Biography of a Mathematician, Philosophe, and a Man of Letters”
Honorable Mention: Mame Maloney (University of Chicago)
“Pathological Functions in the 18th and 19th Centuries”
First Place: Rory Plante
“The Libra Astronomica and its Mathematics”
First Place: Douglas Smith (Miami University, Ohio)
“Lucas’s theorem: A Great Theorem”
First Place: Jennifer Wiegert
“The Sagacity of Circles: A History of the Isoperimetric Problem”
First Place: Samantha Reynolds (University of Missouri – Kansas City)
“Maria Gaetana Agnesi: Female Mathematician and Brilliant Expositor of the 18th Century”
First Place: Newlyn Walkup (University of Missouri – Kansas City)
“Eratosthenes and the Mystery of the Stades”
Second Place: James Collingwood (Drake University)
“Rigor in Analysis: From Newton to Cauchy”
First Place: Mark Walters
“It Appears That Four Colors Suffice: A Historical Overview of the Four-Color Theorem”
First Place: Heath Yates (University of Missouri – Kansas City)
“An Emanji Temple Tablet”
For articles of expository excellence published in The College Mathematics Journal.
Adrian Rice and Ezra Brown
Why Hamilton Couldn’t Multiply Triples
The College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 52, no. 3, May 2021, pp. 185–192.
Peter McGrath
Newton’s Shell Theorem via Archimedes’ Hat Box and Single Variable Calculus
The College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 49, no. 2, March 2018, pp. 109–113.
Ben Blum-Smith and Samuel Coskey
Fundamental Theorem on Symmetric Polynomials: History’s First Whiff of Galois Theory
The College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 48, no. 1, January 2017, pp. 18–29.
Viktor Blåsjö
How to Find the Logarithm of Any Number Using Nothing But a Piece of String
The College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 47, no. 2, March 2016, pp. 95–100.
Adam E. Parker
Who Solved the Bernoulli Differential Equation and How Did They Do It?
The College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 44, no. 2, March 2013, pp. 89–97.
John Martin
The Helen of Geometry
The College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 41, no. 1, January 2010, pp. 17–27.
Ezra (Bud) Brown
Phoebe Floats!
The College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 36, no. 2, March 2005, pp. 114–122.
Brian Hopkins and Robin J. Wilson
The Truth About Königsberg
The College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 35, no. 3, May 2004, pp. 198–207.
Ezra (Bud) Brown
Three Fermat Trails to Elliptic Curves
The College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 31, no. 3, May 2000, pp. 162–172.
Ezra (Bud) Brown
Square Roots From 1; 24, 51, 10 to Dan Shanks
The College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 30, no. 2, March 1999, pp. 82–95.
Chris Christensen and Shreeram S. Abhyankar
Newton’s Method for Resolving Affected Equations
The College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 27, no. 5, November 1996), pp. 330–340.
Anthony P. Ferzola
Euler and Differentials
The College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 25, no. 2, March 1994, pp. 102–111.
Howard Eves
Two Surprising Theorems on Cavalieri Congruence
The College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 22, no. 2, March 1991, pp. 118–124.
William Dunham
Euler and the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra
The College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 22, no. 4, September 1991, pp. 282–293.
Israel Kleiner
Evolution of the Function Concept: A Brief Survey
The College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 20, 1989, pp. 282–300.
V. Frederick Rickey
Isaac Newton: Man, Myth, and Mathematics
The College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 18, 1987, pp. 362–389.
Constance Reid
The Autobiography of Julia Robinson
The College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 17, 1986, pp. 2–21.