JSTOR All-Stars: Mathematics Magazine

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 4,780 articles from Mathematics Magazine, from 1947 to 2003.

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

  1. "The Golden Section and the Piano Sonatas of Mozart" by John F. Putz. October 1995, 68:275-282.
  2. "Rigor and Proof in Mathematics: A Historical Perspective" by Israel Kleiner. December 1991, 64:291-314.
  3. "The Evolution of Group Theory: A Brief Survey" by Israel Kleiner. October 1986, 59:195-215.
  4. "The 2500-Year-Old Pythagorean Theorem" by Darko Veljan. October 2000, 73:259-272.
  5. "Descartes and Problem-Solving" by Judith Grabiner. April 1995, 68:83-97.
  6. "The Number System of the Mayas" by Gary D. Salyers. September 1954, 28:44-48.
  7. "On the Inverse of the Sum of Matrices" by Kenneth S. Miller. March 1981, 54:67-72.
  8. "The Evolution of Mathematics in Ancient China" by Frank Swetz. January 1979, 52:10-19.
  9. "Good-bye Descartes?" by Keith Devlin. December 1996, 69:344-349.
  10. "Euler and Infinite Series" by Morris Kline. November 1983, 56:307-314.
  11. "Assigning Driver's License Numbers" by Joseph A. Gallian. February 1991, 64:13-22.
  12. "Mathematics and Literature" by D.O. Koehler. March 1982, 55:81-95.
  13. "Pólya, Problem Solving, and Education" by Alan H. Schoenfeld. December 1987, 60:283-291.
  14. "The Changing Concept of Change: The Derivative from Fermat to Weierstrass" by Judith V. Grabiner. September 1983, 56:195-206.
  15. "The History of Stokes' Theorem" by Victor J. Katz. May 1979, 52:146-156.
  16. "Copulas, Characterization, Correlation, and Counterexamples" by Roger B. Nelsen. June 1995, 68:193-198.
  17. "The Centrality of Mathematics in the History of Western Thought" by Judith V. Grabiner. October 1988, 61:220-230.
  18. "Another Proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra" by Daniel J. Velleman. June 1997, 70:216-217.
  19. "How Columbus Encountered America" by V. Frederick Rickey. October 1992, 65:219-225.
  20. "Love Affairs and Differential Equations" by Steven H. Strogatz. February 1988, 61:35.
  21. "Automorphisms of the Complex Numbers" by Paul B. Yale. May 1966, 39:135-141.
  22. "Easy Algorithms for Finding Eigenvalues" by Clifford Reiter. June 1990, 63:173-178.
  23. "The Ubiquitous π" by Dario Castellanos. April 1988, 61:67-98.
  24. "Euclidean Constructions and the Geometry of Origami" by Robert Geretschläger. December 1995, 68:357-371.
  25. "The Pólya-Escher Connection" by Doris Schattschneider. December 1987, 60:292-298.

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