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In 2011, Marion Walter, professor emerita at the University of Oregon in Eugene, donated her collection of photographs of mathematicians to the Archives of American Mathematics. The Marion Walter Photograph Collection consists of nearly 60 photographic prints, negatives, and slides, and includes such figures as Olga Taussky-Todd, John Todd, George Pólya, Paul Erdos, D. H. Lehmer, Ernst Straus, and many other notable mathematicians. This article was published in the April / May 2012 issue of MAA FOCUS.

 

 

 

MAA FOCUS

  • Geodesics on the Blogosphere(MAA FOCUS, February / March 2012)
  • Math-Flavored Budapest (MAA FOCUS, December / January 2011)
  • On Books: Buy More! (MAA FOCUS, December / January 2011)
  • Math for a Global Knowledge Society: AAAS (MAA FOCUS, December / January 2011)
  • A Voice of Experience (MAA FOCUS, December / January 2011)
  • Giving the AMC Contests at Your College/University (MAA FOCUS, December / January 2011)
  • Erdös Number 1 . . . for Mountain Climbing (MAA FOCUS, December / January 2011)
  • Notes from Mathematical Tourists in Guatemala (MAA FOCUS, October / November 2011)
  • Undergraduate Paper Sessions, Awards, and Ice Cream Social (MAA FOCUS, October / November 2011)
  • Solution to "Graeco-Latin Sudoku" (MAA FOCUS, August / September 2011)
  • Giant Tangrams Add Challenge to Navy Prep School Competition (MAA FOCUS, June / July 2011)
  • Solution to "Ladder Games" (MAA FOCUS, June / July 2011)
  • Ethnomathematics Shows Students Their Connections to Math (MAA FOCUS, April/May 2011)
  • Road to Partition: Unveiling the Fractal Structure of Partition Numbers by Adriana Salerno (MAA FOCUS, April / May 2011)
  • The Undergraduate Research Poster Session by Joyati Debnath (MAA FOCUS, April / May 2011)
  • Reports of SIGMAAs (MAA FOCUS, April / May 2011)
  • MAA Updates Its Test for Calculus Readiness by Marilyn Carlson, Bernard Madison, and Rich West (MAA FOCUS, February/March 2011)
  • MAA / Maplesoft Placement Testing Package Expands by Bernard Madison (MAA FOCUS, February / March 2011)
  • Creating Discussions with Clickers and Classroom Voting (MAA FOCUS, June / July 2011)
  • Why Publish with the MAA? by Don Albers (MAA FOCUS, February / March 2011)
  • Martin Gardner Tribute in MAA FOCUS and other Gardner Resources (October 20, 2010)

    • The American Mathematical Monthly

  • Was Cantor Surprised? by Fernando Gouvêa (The American Mathematical Monthly, March 2011)
  • Yueh-Gin Gung and Dr. Charles Y. Hu Award for 2011 to Joseph A. Gallian for Distinguished Service to Mathematics by Barbara Faires (The American Mathematical Monthly, March 2011)
  • The Convergence of Difference Boxes (The American Mathematical Monthly, May 2005)

    • The College Mathematics Journal

  • January 2012 Contents: The Mathematics of Martin Gardner (Full issue available for free)
  • Math Article Shows Collaboration Is Not Limited by Geography—or Age (December 13, 2010)

    • Math Horizons

  • Mathematics Meets Photography by David Swart and Bruce Torrence  (Math Horizons, September 2011)
  • A Knight's Tour de Force by Adam Berliner (Math Horizons, April 2011)
  • Math and the Arts: A Mandelbrot Sunset (pdf) (Math Horizons, February 2011)

    • Mathematics Magazine

  • A Car Crash Solved—with a Swiss Army Knife by Marc Frantz (Mathematics Magazine, December 2011)