JSTOR All-Stars: The College Mathematics Journal

December 19, 2007

The JSTOR database is an archive of important scholarly journals, offering researchers high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages. It now includes 1,786 articles from The College Mathematics Journal, from 1984 to 2003, and 1,007 articles from its predecessor The Two-Year College Mathematics Journal (1970-1983).

The most frequently accessed (total viewings plus total printings) CMJ articles to date are:

  1. "Misconceptions about the Golden Ratio" by George Markowsky. January 1992, 23:2-19.
  2. "Learning Mathematics Through Writing: Some Guidelines" by J.J. Price. November 1989, 20:393-401.
  3. "Studying Students Studying Calculus: A Look at the Lives of Minority Mathematics Students in College" by Uri Treisman. November 1992, 23:362-372.
  4. "The History of the Calculus" by Carl B. Boyer. Spring 1970, 1:60-86.
  5. "Isaac Newton: Man, Myth, and Mathematics" by V. Frederick Rickey. November 1987, 18:362-389.
  6. "Math Anxiety: Some Suggested Causes and Cures: Part 1" by Peter Hilton. June 1980, 11:174-188.
  7. "Evolution of the Function Concept: A Brief Survey" by Israel Kleiner. September 1989, 20:282-300.
  8. "The Fractal Geometry of Mandelbrot" by Anthony Barcellos. March 1984, 15:98-114.
  9. "A Singularly Valuable Decomposition: The SVD of a Matrix" by Dan Kalman. January 1996, 27:2-23.
  10. "Cryptology: From Caesar Ciphers to Public-Key Cryptosystems" by Dennis Luciano and Gordon Prichett. January 1987, 18:2-17.
  11. "Six Ways to Sum a Series" by Dan Kalman. November 1993, 24:402-421.
  12. "The Growing Importance of Linear Algebra in Undergraduate Mathematics" by Alan Tucker. January 1993, 24:3-9.
  13. "Collegiate Mathematics Education Research: What Would That Be Like?" by Annie Selden and John Selden. November 1993, 24:431-445.
  14. "Pascal's Triangle" by Karl J. Smith. Winter 1973, 4:1-13.
  15. "Let's Teach Philosophy of Mathematics!" by Reuben Hersh. March 1990, 21:105-111.
  16. "Women Mathematicians" by Debra Charpentier. March 1977, 8:73-79.
  17. "Euler and the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra" by William Dunham. September 1991, 22:282-293.
  18. "The Derivative of Arctan x" by Norman Schaumberger. September 1982, 13:274-276.
  19. "Integration by Parts" by V.N. Murty. March 1980, 11:90-94.
  20. "An Interview with George B. Dantzig: The Father of Linear Programming" by Donald J. Albers and Constance Reid. September 1986, 17:292-314.
  21. "Isaac Newton: Credit where Credit Won't Do" by Robert Weinstock. May 1994, 25:179-192.
  22. "Euler and Differentials" by Anthony P. Ferzola. March 1994, 25:102-111.
  23. "Computing Jordan Canonical Forms" by Patrick Costello. May 1994, 25:231-234.
  24. "What's an Assignment Like You Doing in a Course Like This? Writing to Learn Mathematics" by George D. Gopen and David A. Smith. January 1990, 22:2-19.
  25. "The Volume and Centroid of the Step Pyramid of Zoser" by Anthony Lo Bello. September 1991, 22:318-322.

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