For expository articles published in Mathematics Magazine.
William Dunham
The Early (and Peculiar) History of the Möbius Function
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 91, no. 2, March 2018, pp. 83–91.
Jordan Bell and Viktor Blåsjö
Pietro Mengoli’s 1650 Proof that the Harmonic Series Diverges
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 91, no. 5, December 2018, pp. 341–347.
Khristo N. Boyadzhiev
Close Encounters with the Stirling Numbers of the Second Kind
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 85, no. 4, October 2012, pp. 252–266.
Adrian Rice and Ezra (Bud) Brown
Why Ellipses Are Not Elliptic Curves
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 85, no. 3, June 2012, pp. 163–176.
Ezra (Bud) 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.
Jeff Suzuki
A Brief History of Impossibility
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 81, no. 1, February 2008, pp. 27–38.
Chris Christensen
Polish Mathematicians Finding Patterns in Enigma Messages
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 80, no. 4 (2007), pp. 247–273.
Saul Stahl
The Evolution of the Normal Distribution
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 79, no. 2 (2006), pp. 96–113.
Jeff Suzuki
The Lost Calculus (1637–1670): Tangency and Optimization without Limits
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 78, no. 5 (2005), pp. 339–353.
Mark McKinzie and Curtis Tuckey
Higher Trigonometry, Hyperreal Numbers, and Euler's Analysis of Infinities
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 74, no. 5 (2001), pp. 339–368.
Donald Teets and Karen Whitehead
The Discovery of Ceres: How Gauss Became Famous
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 72, no. 2 (1999), pp. 83–91.
Judith Grabiner
Descartes and Problem-Solving
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 68, no. 2 (1995), pp. 83–97.
Lee Badger
Lazzarini's Lucky Approximation of π
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 67, no. 2 (1994), pp. 83–91.
Israel Kleiner
Rigor and Proof in Mathematics: A Historical Perspective
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 64, no. 5 (1991), pp. 291–314.
Ranjan Roy
The Discovery of the Series Formula for π by Leibniz, Gregory, and Nilakantha
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 63, no. 5 (1990), pp. 291–306.
Thomas Archibald
Connectivity and Smoke-Rings: Green's Second Identity in Its First Fifty Years
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 62, no. 4 (1989), pp. 219–232.
Judith V. Grabiner
The Centrality of Mathematics in the History of Western Thought
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 61, no. 4 (1988), pp. 220–230.
Israel Kleiner
The Evolution of Group Theory: A Brief Survey
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 59, no. 4 (1986), pp. 195–215.
Saul Stahl
The Other Map Coloring Theorem
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 58, no. 3 (1985), pp. 131–145.
Judith V. Grabiner
The Changing Concept of Change: The Derivative from Fermat to Weierstrass
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 56, no. 4 (1983), pp. 195–206.
Ernst Snapper
The Three Crises in Mathematics: Logicism, Intuitionism, and Formalism
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 52, no. 4 (1979), pp. 207–216.
Bruce C. Berndt
Ramanujan's Notebooks
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 51, no. 3 (1978), pp. 147–164.
David A. Smith
Human Population Growth: Stability or Explosion?
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 50, no. 4 (1977), pp. 186–197.
Joseph A. Gallian
The Search for Finite Simple Groups
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 49, no. 4 (1976), pp. 163–180.
B.L. van der Waerden
Hamilton's Discovery of Quaternions
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 49, no. 5 (1976), pp. 227–234.