Number | Date | Title | Lecturer |
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67 | 29 March 2019 | Mathematics to DIE For: The Battle Between Counting | Jennifer Quinn (University of Washington - Tacoma) |
66 | 14 April 2018 | Solving Problems: MAA American Mathematics Competitions and Evolving Views of Mathematics Education | Michael Pearson (MAA Executive Director) |
65 | 2 April 2016 | Actuarial Careers: What, Where, Who, How, and Why? | Jim Daniel (MAA Treasurer) |
64 | 11 April 2015 | Polyhedral Symmetry in the Plane? | Frank Farris (Santa Clara University) |
63 | 11 April 2014 | Moebius Madness | Ivars Peterson (MAA) |
62 | 6 April 2013 | Wild Things are Fractals | Gerard Venema (Calvin College) |
61 | 30 March 2012 | Everyday Questions, Not-So-Everyday Mathematics | Rick Gillman (Chair of MAA Committee on Sections) |
60 | 1 April 2011 | Mathematics and Architecture in the Baroque Era | Barbara Faires (Secretary of the MAA) |
59 | 26 March 2010 | Issues of the Transition to College Mathematics | David Bressoud (MAA President, Macalester College) |
58 | 28 March 2008 | Breaking Driver’s License Codes | Joseph Gallian (MAA President, University of Minnesota - Duluth) |
57 | 30 March 2007 | Easy Problems, Hard Problems: The MAA American Mathematics Competitions | Steven Dunbar (University of Nebraska - Lincoln) |
56 | 1 April 2006 | Gian-Carlo Rota (1932-1999) | Darryl McCollough (University of Oklahoma) |
55 | 31 March 2006 | Connections between Mathematics and Biology | Carl Cowen (MAA President, Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis) |
54 | 8 April 2005 | Through the Lurking Graphs | Lowell Beineke (Indiana University-Purdue University) |
53 | 26 March 2004 | Planar Linkages: Robot Arms, Carpenters’ Rulers, and Other Devices | Nancy Hagelgans (Ursinus College) |
52 | 29 March 2003 | Why Teach Mathematics? | Underwood Dudley (DePauw University) |
50 | 5 April 2002 | Fallacies in Elementary Statistics | Ann Watkins (MAA President) |
49 | 30 March 2001 | The MAA and College Mathematics: Where Will We Be in 2010? | Tina Straley (Executive Director, MAA) |
48 | 31 March 2000 | Math Mag Morsels | Paul Zor (St. Olaf College) |
47 | 26 March 1999 | Overlooked Topics in Calculus | Bart Braden (Northern Kentucky University) |
46 | 27 March 1998 | MAA 2000 | Marcia Sward (Executive Director, MAA) |
45 | 4 April 1997 | Mathematics Education and Technology | Wade Ellis (2nd Vice-president, MAA) |
44 | 22 March 1996 | Bringing Up Baby | Donald Albers (Associate Executive Director and Director of Publications and Programs, MAA) |
43 | 31 March 1995 | The Fibonacci Decimal and Other Adventures in the Algebra of Linear Difference Equations | Andy R. Magid (University of Oklahoma) |
42 | 26 March 1994 | Whose Mother Is It? The Search for a Mathematical Theory of Everyday Communication | Keith Devlin (Saint Mary’s College of California) |
41 | 26 March 1993 | Moving to the Meta-Level | Marcia Sward (Executive Director, MAA) |
40 | 3 April 1992 | Recursion via Godel, Escher, & Bach | Barbara Faires (Westminster College) |
39 | 5 April 1991 | Meeting the Challenge in Mathematics Education | Martha J. Siegel (Towson State University) |
38 | 30 March 1990 | Using Technology to Revitalize Mathematics | John W. Kenelly (Clemson University) |
37 | 31 March 1989 | Mathematics of Fair Representation | Alan Tucker (State University of New York at Stony Brook) |
36 | 15 April 1988 | The History of the MAA | Ivan Niven (University of Oregon) |
35 | 27 March 1987 | Calculus of the Future | Lida Barrett (Northern Illinois University) |
34 | 4 April 1986 | Mathematics in the Kitchen | Jerome A. Goldstein (Tulane) |
33 | 29 March 1985 | Some Functions That Count | Gerald L. Alexanderso (University of Santa Clara) |
32 | 30 March 1984 | Another Approach to Riemann-Stieltjes Integrals | Kenneth Ross (MAA Secretary, University of Oregon) |
31 | 18 March 1983 | Report on the National Science Board Commission and Precollege Education in Mathematics | Katherine Layton (National Science Board Commission on Precollege Mathematics, Science, and Technology) |
30 | 26 March 1982 | The Isoperimetric Theorem | Ivan Niven (University of Oregon) |
29 | 27 March 1981 | Optimal Strategies in Sports | Leonard Gillman (University of Texas at Austin) |
28 | 28 March 1980 | Algorithmically Defined Functions | R. D. Anderson (Louisiana State University) |
27 | 30 March 1979 | What is Your Geometric I.Q.? | Philip Davis (Brown University) |
26 | 31 March 1978 | Algebraic Number Theory | David Roselle (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and MAA Secretary) |
25 | 1 April 1977 | Prime Generating Functions and Congruencies | H. L. Alder (University of California at Davis) |
24 | 26 March 1976 | The Graph of a Group as Seen by a Nonexpert | J. W. Keesee (University of Arkansas at Fayetteville) |
23 | 4 April 1975 | On the Nature of Mathematics Work in Industry | Henry O. Pollak (Bell Laboratories) |
22 | 5 April 1974 | How to Make and Break Codes | Dorothy Bernstein (Goucher College |
21 | 6 April 1973 | Signs of Derivatives and Analytic Behavior | Ralph P. Boas (Northwestern University) |
20 | 10 March 1972 | Convex Polytopes and Linear Programming | Professor Victor Klee (University of Washington) |
19 | 12 March 1971 | Numerical Methods of Solving Elliptic Partial Differential Equations | Ivo Babuska (Institute of Fluid Dynamics and Mechanics, University of Maryland and Mathematical Institute of the Academy of Science, Prague) |
18 | 20 March 1970 | Topological Methods in Analysis | Gail S. Young (Tulane University) |
17 | 20 March 1970 | Professor R. L. Moore - The Teacher | O. H. Hamilton (Oklahoma State University) |
16† | 22 March 1969 | Formulation of Problems of the Calculus of Variations, the Choice of Admissible Functions and of Methods | G. M. Ewing (University of Oklahoma) |
Oscillation Theorems for Third Order Differential Equations | R. W. Utz, Jr. (University of Missouri) | ||
The Differential Equations of Stochastic Control Theory | E. J. McShane (University of Virginia) | ||
Generalized Polar Coordinate Transformations for Differential Equations | W. T. Reid (University of Oklahoma) | ||
15 | 22 March 1969 | Geometric Transformations and their Role in Secondary and College Mathematics | Professor Seymour Schuster (Carleton College) |
14 | 29 March 1968 | Qualifications for a College Faculty in Mathematics | Richard Anderson (Louisiana State University) |
13 | 29 March 1968 | Manpower Questions in the Mathematical Sciences | John Jewett (Oklahoma State University) |
12 | 1 April 1966 | The CUPM Recommendations on College Mathematics Offerings | G. Baley Price (University of Kansas) |
11 | 10 April 1964 | Quadric Surfaces Associated with a Tetrahedron | Nathan A. Court (University of Oklahoma) |
10 | 10 April 1964 | Homogeneity | R. H. Bing (President of the MAA) |
9 | 15 March 1963 | An Applied Mathematician Among the Atoms | G. M. Wing (Sandia Corporation) |
8 | 28 October 1960 | General Aims and Purposes of the CUPM Recommendations for Teacher Training in Mathematics | Robert Wisner (Executive Director, Committee on the Undergraduate Program of the MAA) |
7 | 25 October 1957 | Method and Modus Operandi | Gertrude Hendrix (University of Illinois) |
6 | 26 October 1956 | Teacher Education and the College Entrance Examination Board Commission on Mathematics and Modernizing the Secondary School Mathematics Curriculum | Henry Van Engen (Iowa State Teachers College) |
5 | 13 February 1954 | On New Methods in Differential Equations with Applications to the Structural Analysis of Airplanes | Stefan Bergmann (Brown University) |
4 | 10 February 1939 | The Place of Mathematics in General Education | Raleigh Schorling (University of Michigan) |
3 | 7 February 1936 | Problems or Personalities | E. J. Ortman (School of Education, University of Oklahoma) |
2 | 7 February 1936 | Some Glimpses into the History of Mathematics | Professor U. G. Mitchell (University of Kansas) |
1 | 7 February 1936 | Some Considerations Relating to Irrational Numbers | U. G. Mitchell (University of Kansas) |
† The administration of Arkansas State University supported Seminar Differential Equations and Variational Theory during the 16th meeting.