| 词条 | Mathematical Association of America |
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| name = Mathematical Association of America | logo = Mathematical Association of America logo.svg | caption = | formation = 1915 | type = | headquarters = 1529 18th Street, NW Washington, D.C. | location = | members = 14,000+ | language = | leader_title = President | leader_name = Deanna Haunsperger | key_people = | num_staff = | budget = | website = www.maa.org }} 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 MAA was founded in 1915 and is headquartered at 1529 18th Street, Northwest in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C.. The organization publishes mathematics journals and books, including the American Mathematical Monthly (established in 1894 by Benjamin Finkel), the most widely read mathematics journal in the world according to records on JSTOR.[1] MeetingsThe MAA sponsors the annual summer MathFest and cosponsors with the American Mathematical Society the Joint Mathematics Meeting, held in early January of each year. On occasion the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics joins in these meetings. Twenty-nine regional sections also hold regular meetings. PublicationsThe association publishes multiple journals in partnership with Taylor & Francis[2]:
CompetitionsThe MAA sponsors numerous competitions for students, including the William Lowell Putnam exam for undergraduate students, the online In-ter-stel-lar competition series, and the American Mathematics Competitions (AMC) for middle- and high-school students. This series of competitions is as follows:
Through this program, outstanding students are identified and invited to participate in the Mathematical Olympiad Program. Ultimately, six high school students are chosen to represent the U.S. at the International Mathematics Olympiad. SectionsThe MAA is composed of the following twenty-nine regional sections: Allegheny Mountain, EPADEL, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Intermountain, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana/Mississippi, MD-DC-VA, Metro New York, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska – SE SD, New Jersey, North Central, Northeastern, Northern CA – NV-HI, Ohio, Oklahoma-Arkansas, Pacific Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Seaway, Southeastern, Southern CA – NV, Southwestern, Texas, Wisconsin Special Interest GroupsThere are seventeen Special Interest Groups of the Mathematical Association of America (SIGMAAs). These SIGMAAs were established to advance the MAA mission by supporting groups with a common mathematical interest, and facilitating interaction between such groups and the greater mathematics community.[4] {{div col|colwidth=30em}}
Awards and prizesThe MAA distributes many prizes, including the Chauvenet Prize[6] and the Carl B. Allendoerfer Award,[7] Trevor Evans Award,[8] Lester R. Ford Award, George Pólya Award,[9] Merten M. Hasse Award,[10] Henry L. Alder Award[11], Euler Book Prize awards and Beckenbach Book Prize. MembershipsThe MAA is one of four partners in the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics (JPBM, http://www.jpbm.org/index.html), and participates in the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences (CBMS, http://www.cbmsweb.org/), an umbrella organization of sixteen professional societies. Historical accountsA detailed history of the first fifty years of the MAA appears in {{harvtxt|May|1972}}. A report on activities prior to World War II appears in {{harvtxt|Bennet|1967}}. Further details of its history can be found in {{harvtxt|Case|1996}}. In addition numerous regional sections of the MAA have published accounts of their local history. The MAA was established in 1915. But the roots of the Association can be traced to the 1894 founding of the American Mathematical Monthly by Benjamin Finkel, who wrote "Most of our existing journals deal almost exclusively with subjects beyond the reach of the average student or teacher of mathematics or at least with subjects with which they are familiar, and little, if any, space, is devoted to the solution of problems…No pains will be spared on the part of the Editors to make this the most interesting and most popular journal published in America." InclusivenessThe MAA has for a long time followed a strict policy of inclusiveness and non-discrimination. In previous periods it was subject to the same problems of discrimination that were widespread across the United States. One notorious incident at a south-eastern sectional meeting in Nashville in 1951 has been documented[12] by the mathematician and equal rights activist Lee Lorch, who recently received the highest honour of the MAA for distinguished services to mathematics.[13][14] The citation delivered at the 2007 MAA awards presentation, where Lorch received a standing ovation, recorded that: "Lee Lorch, the chair of the mathematics department at Fisk University, and three Black colleagues, Evelyn Boyd (now Granville), Walter Brown, and H. M. Holloway came to the meeting and were able to attend the scientific sessions. However, the organizer for the closing banquet refused to honor the reservations of these four mathematicians. (Letters in Science, August 10, 1951, pp. 161–162 spell out the details). Lorch and his colleagues wrote to the governing bodies of the AMS and MAA seeking bylaws against discrimination. Bylaws were not changed, but non-discriminatory policies were established and have been strictly observed since then." The Association's first woman president was Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (1979–1980).[15] MAA Carriage HouseThe Carriage House that belonged to the residents at 1529 18th Street, N.W. dates to around 1900. It is older than the 5-story townhouse where the MAA Headquarters is currently located, which was completed in 1903. Charles Evans Hughes occupied the house while he was Secretary of State (1921–1925) and a Supreme Court Justice (1910–1916 and 1930–1941). The Carriage House would have been used by the owners as a livery stable to house the family carriage, though little else is known about its history today. There are huge doors that were once used as an entrance for horses and carriages. Iron rings used to tie up horses can still be seen on an adjacent building. The Carriage House would have perhaps also been used as living quarters for a coachman, as was typical for the time period. The building is owned by the MAA since 1978. In Spring of 2007 an opening ceremony was held to mark its transformation from a mail room and publication warehouse into a first-rate conference center. It is now used for meetings, lectures, and other events. PresidentsThe presidents of the MAA:[16] {{Col-begin}}{{Col-1-of-2}}
See also
Notes1. ^JSTOR usage statistics {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724095643/http://stats.jstor.org/ |date=2008-07-24 }} 2. ^{{Cite web| title = Newsroom {{!}} Taylor & Francis| accessdate = 2018-01-10| url = http://newsroom.taylorandfrancisgroup.com/news/press-release/taylor-francis-group-and-mathematical-association-of-america-begin-publ}} 3. ^{{cite journal | last = Moore | first = Lang |date=May–June 2008 | title = New MathDL to Debut This Summer | journal = Maa Focus | volume = 28 | issue = 5 | pages = 4–5 | publisher = Mathematical Association of America | location = Washington, DC | issn = 0731-2040 | url = http://www.maa.org/pubs/may08web.pdf | accessdate = 2008-06-09 | ref = harv }} 4. ^[https://www.maa.org/community/sigmaas Special Interest Groups of the MAA] Mathematical Association of America 5. ^1 Three New Sigmaas Formed by Jacqueline Jensen-Vallin, MAA 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.maa.org/awards/chauvent.html|title=The Mathematical Association of America's Chauvenet Prize|publisher=The Mathematical Association of America|accessdate=8 March 2010}} 7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.maa.org/awards/allendoerfer.html|title=The Mathematical Association of America's Carl B. Allendoerfer Award|publisher=The Mathematical Association of America|accessdate=8 March 2010}} 8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.maa.org/awards/evans.html|title=The Mathematical Association of America's Trevor Evans Awards|publisher=The Mathematical Association of America|accessdate=8 March 2010}} 9. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.maa.org/awards/polya.html|title=The Mathematical Association of America's George Pólya Award|publisher=The Mathematical Association of America|accessdate=8 March 2010}} 10. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.maa.org/awards/hasse.html|title=The Mathematical Association of America's Merten M. Hasse Prize|publisher=The Mathematical Association of America|accessdate=8 March 2010}} 11. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.maa.org/awards/alder.html|title=Henry L. Alder Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Beginning College or University Mathematics Faculty Member|publisher=The Mathematical Association of America|accessdate=8 March 2010}} 12. ^{{harvnb|Lorch|1994}} 13. ^{{harvnb|Hamilton|2007}} 14. ^{{harvnb|Jackson|2007}} 15. ^Moskol, Ann. 1987. "Dorothy Lewis Bernstein" Women of Mathematics. eds. Louise S. Grinstein and Paul J. Campbell. Greenwood Press. 16. ^{{cite web |title=MAA Officers |url=https://www.maa.org/about-maa/governance/maa-presidents/maa-officers |publisher=Mathematical Association of America |accessdate=30 September 2018}} References
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