JSTOR All-Stars: The American Mathematical Monthly

March 24, 2011

The JSTOR database is an archive of important scholarly journals, offering researchers high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages. It includes articles from The American Mathematical Monthly, from 1894 to the present.

The most frequently accessed Monthly articles over the last three years are:

  1. "College Admissions and the Stability of Marriage" by David Gale and Lloyd Shapley, Vol. 69, No. 1 (January, 1962), pp. 9-15.
  2. "What Does the Spectral Theorem Say?" by P. R. Halmos, Vol. 70, No. 3 (March 1963), pp. 241-247.
  3. "Can One Hear the Shape of a Drum?" by Mark Kac, Vol. 73, No. 4 (April 1966), pp. 1-23.
  4. "Period Three Implies Chaos" by Tien-Yien Li and James A Yorke, Vol. 82, No. 10 (December, 1975), pp. 985-992.
  5. "Biography: René Descartes” by B. F. Finkel, Vol. 5, No. 8/9 (August-September, 1898), pp. 191-195.
  6. “A One-Sentence Proof That Every Prime Is a Sum of Two Squares” by Don Zagier, Vol. 97, No. 2 (February 1990), p. 144.
  7. "Random Walk and the Theory of Brownian Motion" by Mark Kac, Vol. 54, No. 7 (August 1947), pp. 369-391.
  8. "The Fundamental Theorem of Linear Algebra" by Gilbert Strang, Vol. 100, No. 9 (November 1993), pp. 848-855.
  9. "What Is the Laplace Transform? " by D. V. Widder, Vol. 52, No. 8 (October 1945), p[p. 419-425.
  10. "Very Basic Lie Theory" by Roger Howe, Vol. 90, No. 9 (November 1983), pp. 600-623.
  11. "The History of Calculus" by Arthur Rosenthal, Vol. 58, No. 2 (February 1951), pp. 75-86.
  12. "What is Cantor's Continuum Problem?" by Kurt Gödel, Vol. 54, No. 9 (November 1947), pp. 515-525.
  13. "Galois Theory for Beginners" by John Stillwell, Vol. 101, No. 1 (January, 1994), pp. 22-27.
  14. “The Strong Law of Small Numbers” by Richard K. Guy, Vol. 95, No. 8 (October 1988), pp. 697-712.
  15. “Hypatia and Her Mathematics” by Michael A. N. Deakin, Vol. 101, No. 3 (March 1994), pp. 234-243.
  16. “Tricks or Treats with the Hilbert Matrix” by Man-Duen Choi, Vol. 90, No. 5 (May 1983), pp. 301-312.
  17. “Differentiation under the Integral Sum” by Harley Flanders, Vol. 80, No. 6 (June-July 1973), pp. 615-627.
  18. “Calculating Sums of Infinite Series” by Bart Braden, Vol. 99, No. 7 (August-September, 1992), pp. 649-655.
  19. "A Remark on the Rank of a Matrix" by Itiro Murase, Vol. 67, No. 2 (February, 1960), pp. 176-177.
  20. "The Plane Symmetry Groups: Their Recognition and Notation" by Doris Schattschneider, Vol. 85, No. 6 (June 1978), pp. 439-450.

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If your library is not on one of the above lists, look for a nearby library that does have JSTOR access and is open to the public. Members of the MAA have the option of purchasing an individual subscription to JSTOR that gives them access to the archives of The American Mathematical Monthly, Mathematics Magazine, The College Mathematics Journal, and Math Horizons.