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Carl B. Allendoerfer Prize: 1970s and 1980s

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The Carl B. Allendoerfer Award, established in 1976, is made to authors of expository articles published in Mathematics Magazine. Carl B. Allendoerfer, a distinguished mathematician at the University of Washington, served as president of the Mathematical Association of America, 1959-60. This is an award of $1,000. Up to two of these awards are given annually at the Summer Meeting of the Association.

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The Search for Finite Simple Groups
Joseph A. Gallian

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 49, Number: 4 (01 Sep 1976)

Published online: 14 Feb 2018
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Hamilton's Discovery of Quaternions
B. L. Van Der Waerden

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 49, Number: 5 (01 Nov 1976)

Published online: 14 Feb 2018
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Tilings by Regular Polygons
Branko Grünbaum & Geoffrey C. Shephard

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 50, Number: 5 (01 Nov 1977)

Published online: 13 Feb 2018
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Human Population Growth: Stability or Explosion?
David A. Smith

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 50, Number: 4 (01 Sep 1977)

Published online: 13 Feb 2018
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Ramanujan's Notebooks
Bruce C. Berndt

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 51, Number: 3 (01 May 1978)

Published online: 13 Feb 2018
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Tiling the Plane with Congruent Pentagons
Doris Schattschneider

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 51, Number: 1 (01 Jan 1978)

Published online: 13 Feb 2018
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Some Unsolved Problems in Plane Geometry
Victor Klee

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 52, Number: 3 (01 May 1979)

Published online: 13 Feb 2018
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The Three Crises in Mathematics: Logicism, Intuitionism and Formalism
Ernst Snapper

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 52, Number: 4 (01 Sep 1979)

Published online: 13 Feb 2018
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The King Chicken Theorems
Stephen B. Maurer

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 53, Number: 2 (01 Mar 1980)

Published online: 13 Feb 2018
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Advanced Plane Topology From an Elementary Standpoint
Donald E. Sanderson

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 53, Number: 2 (01 Mar 1980)

Published online: 13 Feb 2018
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Continued Fractions Without Tears
Ian Richards

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 54, Number: 4 (01 Sep 1981)

Published online: 13 Feb 2018
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Which Tetrahedra Fill Space?
Marjorie Senechal

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 54, Number: 5 (01 Nov 1981)

Published online: 13 Feb 2018
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Mathematics and Literature
D. O. Koehler

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 55, Number: 2 (01 Mar 1982)

Published online: 13 Feb 2018
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A Generic Approach to Iterative Methods
Clifford H. Wagner

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 55, Number: 5 (01 Nov 1982)

Published online: 13 Feb 2018
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The Changing Concept of Change: The Derivative from Fermat to Weierstrass
Judith V. Grabiner

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 56, Number: 4 (01 Sep 1983)

Published online: 13 Feb 2018
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Constructive Ordinal Notation Systems
Frederick Gass

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 57, Number: 3 (01 May 1984)

Published online: 13 Feb 2018
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Parliamentary Coalitions: A Tour of Models
Philip D. Straffin Jr. & Bernard Grofman

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 57, Number: 5 (01 Nov 1984)

Published online: 13 Feb 2018
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Design of an Oscillating Sprinkler
Bart Braden

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 58, Number: 1 (01 Jan 1985)

Published online: 13 Feb 2018
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The Other Map Coloring Theorem
Saul Stahl

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 58, Number: 3 (01 May 1985)

Published online: 13 Feb 2018
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The Evolution of Group Theory: A Brief Survey
Israel Kleiner

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 59, Number: 4 (01 Oct 1986)

Published online: 13 Feb 2018
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The Bieberbach Conjecture
Paul Zorn

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 59, Number: 3 (01 Jun 1986)

Published online: 13 Feb 2018
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Pólya's Geometric Picture of Complex Contour Integrals
Bart Braden

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 60, Number: 5 (01 Dec 1987)

Published online: 13 Feb 2018
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Products of Sines and Cosines
Steven Galovich

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 60, Number: 2 (01 Apr 1987)

Published online: 13 Feb 2018
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The New Polynomial Invariants of Knots and Links
W. B. R. Lickorish & K. C. Millett

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 61, Number: 1 (01 Feb 1988)

Published online: 13 Feb 2018
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The Centrality of Mathematics in the History of Western Thought
Judith V. Grabiner

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 61, Number: 4 (01 Oct 1988)

Published online: 13 Feb 2018
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