American mathematical monthly

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  Año 1993, Vol. 100, Número 8

  • Thomas Archer Hirst--mathematician xtravagant IV. Queenwood, France and Italy

    J. Helen Gardner, Robin J. Wilson

    págs. 723-731

    

  • On the Chinese origin of the symbol for zero

    Florian Cajori

    pág. 731

    

  • Thoughts on `Innumeracy': Mathematics versus the world?

    Peter L. Renz

    págs. 732-741

    

  • Reflections on rippling water

    Michael Mendes France

    págs. 743-748

    

  • The Principal Axis Theorem over arbitrary fields

    Daniel B. Shapiro, David Mornhiweg

    págs. 749-754

    

  • The Chauvenet Prize

    pág. 754

    

  • The fifty-third William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition

    Gerald L. Alexanderson, Leonard F. Klosinski

    págs. 755-767

    

  • A visual explanation of Jensen's inequality

    Tristan Needham

    págs. 768-771

    

  • The index of a constrained critical point

    Catherine Hassell, Elmer Rees

    págs. 772-778

    

  • On some irrational decimal fractions

    Norbert Hegyvari

    págs. 779-780

    

  • The symmetry principle for Mobius transformations

    John Duncan, Louis Brickman

    págs. 781-782

    

  • A short proof for Romberg integration

    T. von Petersdorff

    págs. 783-785

    

  • An elementary proof that the Borromean rings are non-splittable

    Ollie Nanyes

    págs. 786-789

    

  • Open problems in pattern avoidance

    James Currie, Richard K. Guy

    págs. 790-793

    

  • Untitled

    Richard T. Bumby, Fred Kochman

    págs. 796-809

    

  • Reviews

    Darrell Haile, Fred Brauer

    págs. 810-811

    

  • Untitled

    Paul Zorn, Arnold Ostebee

    págs. 812-817