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The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) is a professional society that focuses on mathematics accessible at the undergraduate level. Members include university, college, and high school teachers; graduate and undergraduate students; pure and applied mathematicians; computer scientists; statisticians; and many others in academia, government, business, and industry.
The word mathematics comes from the Ancient Greek word máthēma (μάθημα), meaning ' something learned, knowledge, mathematics ', and the derived expression mathēmatikḗ tékhnē (μαθηματικὴ τέχνη), meaning ' mathematical science '. It entered the English language during the Late Middle English period through French and ...
Albanian Mathematical Association [7]; Armenian Mathematical Union; Austrian Mathematical Society; Catalan Mathematical Society, Spain; Cyprus Mathematical Society
Clay Mathematics Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, at New York University; Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton, New Jersey; Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, at the University of Minnesota; Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, at the University of California, Los Angeles
American Samoa (American Samoa Community College) and the Northern Mariana Islands (Northern Marianas College) have one college each. The US insular areas under the Compact of Free Association , namely Palau ( Palau Community College ), the Federated States of Micronesia ( College of Micronesia-FSM ), and the Marshall Islands ( College of the ...
The Archives began in 1975 at the University of Texas at Austin with the preservation of the papers of Texas mathematicians R.L. Moore and H.S. Vandiver. [1]In 1978, the Mathematical Association of America established the university as the official repository for its archival records and the name "Archives of American Mathematics" was adopted to encompass all of the mathematical archival ...
William Schieffelin Claytor (1908–1967), third African-American to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, University of Pennsylvania [1] [2] Paul Cohen (1934–2007) Don Coppersmith (b. 1950), cryptographer, first four-time Putnam Fellow in history; Elbert Frank Cox (1895–1969), first African-American to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, Cornell University
In 1962, The University of Alabama's Mathetics Foundation began publication of The Journal of Mathetics. However, only two issues were ever printed, the first in January and the second in April. The contents of the first issue included: p. 7 THE TECHNOLOGY OF EDUCATION – domain theory, operant span, long division