Mathematical Association of America
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| Mathematical Association of America | |
|---|---|
| Formation | 1915 |
| Headquarters | Washington, DC |
| Membership | 25,000 |
| President | Joseph Gallian |
| Website | http://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 in Washington, D.C.. It may be best known as a publisher of technical and popular mathematics journals and books, including the American Mathematical Monthly, established in 1894 by Benjamin Finkel, the most widely-read mathematics journal in the world.
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[edit] Meetings
The MAA sponsors the annual summer MathFest and cosponsors with the American Mathematical Society the Joint Mathematics Meeting, held in early January of each year. Twenty-nine regional sections also hold regular meeings.
[edit] Publications
The association publishes multiple journals:
- American Mathematical Monthly
- Mathematics Magazine
- College Mathematics Journal
- Math Horizons
- MAA FOCUS
The Association publishes an online resource, Mathematical Sciences Digital Library (Math DL). The service launched in 2001 with the online-only Journal of Online Mathematics and its Applications (JOMA) and a set of classroom tools, Digital Classroom Resources. These were followed in 2004 by Convergence, an online-only history magazine, and in 2005 by MAA Reviews, an online book review service, and Classroom Capsules and Notes, a set of classroom notes. [1]
[edit] Competitions
The MAA sponsors numerous competitions for students, including the Putnam exam for undergraduate students, and the American Mathematics Competitions (AMC) for middle- and high-school students. The AMC program also includes the American Invitational Mathematics Examination and the United States of America Mathematics Olympiad. 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.
[edit] Sections
The 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
[edit] Memberships
The 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.
[edit] See also
- American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges
- American Mathematical Society
- National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
[edit] Notes
- ^ Moore, Lang (May/June 2008). "New MathDL to Debut This Summer" (PDF). MAA FOCUS 28 (5): 4-5. Washington, DC: Mathematical Association of America. ISSN 07312040.
[edit] External links
- MAA official website
- Mathematical Sciences Digital Library (MathDL)
- Convergence, the MAA's Math History and Math Education Magazine (part of MathDL)
