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The Carl B. Allendoerfer Award, established in 1976, is made to authors of expository articles published in Mathematics Magazine. Carl B. Allendoerfer, a distinguished mathematician at the University of Washington, served as president of the Mathematical Association of America, 1959-60. This is an award of $500. Up to two of these awards are given annually at the Summer Meeting of the Association.
P. Mark Kayll
Integrals Don't Have Anything to Do with Discrete Math, Do They?
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 84, no. 2, April 2011, pp. 108-119
John A. Adam
Blood Vessel Branching: Beyond the Standard Calculus Problem
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 84, no. 3, April 2011, pp. 196-207
Curtis D. Bennett, Blake Mellor, and Patrick Shanahan
Drawing a Triangle on the Thurston Model of Hyperbolic Space
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 83, no. 2, April 2010, pp. 83-99
Gene Abrams and Jessica Sklar
The Graph Menagerie: Abstract Algebra and the Mad Veterinarian
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 83, no. 3, April 2010, pp. 168-179
Ezra 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
David Speyer and Bernd Sturmfels
Tropical Mathematics
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 82, no. 3, June 2009, pp. 163-173
Vesna Stojanoska and Orlin Stoytchev
Touching the Z2 in Three-Dimensional Rotations
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 81, no. 5, December 2008, pp. 345-357
Jeff Suzuki
A Brief History of Impossibility
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 81, no. 1, February 2008, pp. 27-38
Eugene Boman, Richard Brazier, and Derek Seiple
Mom! There's an Astroid in My Closet!
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 80 (2007), pp. 104-111
Chris Christensen
Polish Mathematicians Finding Patterns in Enigma Messages
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 80 (2007), pp. 247-273
Carl V. Lutzer
Hammer Juggling, Rotational Instability, and Eigenvalues
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 79 (2006), pp. 243-250
Saul Stahl
The Evolution of the Normal Distribution
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 79 (2006), pp. 96-113
Robb T. Koether and John K. Osinach, Jr.
Outwitting the Lying Oracle
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 78 (2005), pp. 98-109
Jeff Suzuki
The Lost Calculus (1637-1670): Tangency and Optimization without Limits
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 78 (2005), pp. 339-353
Roger B. Eggleton and William P. Galvin
Upper Bounds on the Sum of Principal Divisors of an Integer
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 77 (2004), pp. 190-200
Charles I. Delman and Gregory Galperin
A Tale of Three Circles
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 76 (2003), pp. 15-32
Dan Kalman
Doubly Recursive Multivariate Automatic Differentiation
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 75 (2002), pp. 187-202
Ezra Brown
The Many Names of (7,3,1)
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 75 (2002), pp. 83-94
Mark McKinzie and Curtis Tuckey
Higher Trigonometry, Hyperreal Numbers, and Euler's Analysis of Infinities
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 74 (2001), pp. 339-368
Raphael Falk Jones and Janice L. Pearce
A Postmodern View of Fractions and the Reciprocals of Fermat Primes
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 73 (2000), pp. 83-97
James N. Brawner
Dinner, Dancing, and Tennis, Anyone?
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 73 (2000), pp. 29-36
Donald Teets and Karen Whitehead
The Discovery of Ceres: How Gauss Became Famous
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 72 (1999), pp. 83-91
Victor Klee and John R. Reay
A Surprising but Easily Proved Geometric Decomposition Theorem
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 71 (1998), pp. 3-11
Donald G. Saari and Fabrice Valognes
Geometry, Voting, and Paradoxes
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 71 (1998), pp. 243-259
Dan Kalman, Robert Mena, and Shahriar Shahriari
Variations on an Irrational Theme-Geometry, Dynamics, Algebra
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 70 (1997), pp. 93-104
Colm Mulcahy
Plotting and Scheming with Wavelets
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 69 (1996), pp. 323-343
Lin Tan
The Group of Rational Points on the Unit Circle
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 69 (1996), pp. 163-171
Judith Grabiner
Descartes and Problem-Solving
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 68 (1995), pp. 83-97
Daniel J. Velleman and Gregory S. Call
Permutations and Combination Locks
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 68 (1995), pp. 243-253
Lee Badger
Lazzarini's Lucky Approximation of pi
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 67 (1994), pp. 83-91
Tristan Needham
The Geometry of Harmonic Functions
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 67 (1994), pp. 92-108
Joan Hutchinson
Coloring Ordinary Maps, Maps of Empires, and Maps of the Moon
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 66 (1993), pp. 211-226
Xun-cheng Huang
From Intermediate Value Theorem to Chaos
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 65 (1992), pp. 91-103
Israel Kleiner
Rigor and Proof in Mathematics: A Historical Perspective
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 64 (1991), pp. 291-314
Gulbank D. Chakerian and David E. Logothetti
Cube Slices, Pictorial Triangles, and Probability
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 64 (1991), pp. 219-241
Ranjan Roy
The Discovery of the Series Formula for π by Leibniz, Gregory, and Nilakantha
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 63 (1990), pp. 291-306
Thomas Archibald
Connectivity and Smoke-Rings: Green's Second Identity in Its First Fifty Years
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 62 (1989), pp. 219-232
Fan K. Chung, Martin Gardner, and Ronald L. Graham
Steiner Trees on a Checkerboard
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 62 (1989), pp. 83-96
W. B. Raymond Lickorish and Kenneth C. Millett
The New Polynomial Invariants of Knots and Links
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 61 (1988), pp. 3-23
Judith V. Grabiner
The Centrality of Mathematics in the History of Western Thought
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 61 (1988), pp. 220-230
Bart Braden
Polya's Geometric Picture of Complex Contour Integrals
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 60 (1987), pp. 321-327
Steven Galovich
Products of Sines and Cosines
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 60 (1987), pp. 105-113
Israel Kleiner
The Evolution of Group Theory: A Brief Survey
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 59 (1986), pp. 195-215
Paul Zorn
The Bieberbach Conjecture
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 59 (1986), pp. 131-148
Bart Braden
Design of an Oscillating Sprinkler
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 58 (1985), pp. 29-38
Saul Stahl
The Other Map Coloring Theorem
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 58 (1985), pp. 131-145
Frederick S. Gass
Constructive Ordinal Notation Systems
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 57 (1984), pp. 131-141
Philip D. Straffin, Jr. and Bernard Grofman
Parliamentary Coalitions: A Tour of Models
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 57 (1984), pp. 259-274
Judith V. Grabiner
The Changing Concept of Change: The Derivative from Fermat to Weierstrass
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 56 (1983), pp. 195-206
Donald O. Koehler
Mathematics and Literature
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 55 (1982), pp. 81-95
Clifford H. Wagner
A Generic Approach to Iterative Methods
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 55 (1982), pp. 259-273
J. Ian Richards
Continued Fractions without Tears
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 54 (1981), pp. 163-171
Marjorie Senechal
Which Tetrahedra Fill Space?
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 54 (1981), pp. 227-243
Stephen B. Maurer
The King Chicken Theorems
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 53 (1980), pp. 67-80
Donald E. Sanderson
Advanced Plane Topology from an Elementary Standpoint
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 53 (1980), pp. 81-89
Victor L. Klee, Jr.
Some Unsolved Problems in Plane Geometry
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 52 (1979), pp. 131-145
Ernst Snapper
The Three Crises in Mathematics: Logicism, Intuitionism, and Formalism
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 52 (1979), pp. 207-216
Bruce C. Berndt
Ramanujan's Notebooks
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 51 (1978), pp. 147-164
Doris Schattschneider
Tiling the Plane with Congruent Pentagons
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 51 (1978), pp. 29-44
Geoffry C. Shephard and Branko Grünbaum
Tilings by Regular Polygons
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 50 (1977), pp. 227-247
David A. Smith
Human Population Growth: Stability or Explosion?
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 50 (1977), pp. 186-197
Joseph A. Gallian
The Search for Finite Simple Groups
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 49 (1976), pp. 163-180
B.L. van der Waerden
Hamilton's Discovery of Quaternions
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 49 (1976), pp. 227-234