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Carl B. Allendoerfer Prize: 2000s

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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 Discovery of Ceres: How Gauss Became Famous
Donald Teets & Karen Whitehead

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 72, Number: 2 (01 Apr 1999)

Published online: 11 Apr 2018
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A Postmodern View of Fractions and the Reciprocals of Fermat Primes
Rafe Jones & Jan Pearce

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 73, Number: 2 (01 Apr 2000)

Published online: 11 Apr 2018
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Dinner, Dancing, and Tennis, Anyone?
James N. Brawner

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 73, Number: 1 (01 Feb 2000)

Published online: 11 Apr 2018
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Doubly Recursive Multivariate Automatic Differentiation
Dan Kalman

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 75, Number: 3 (01 Jun 2002)

Published online: 16 Apr 2018
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The Many Names of (7, 3, 1)
Ezra Brown

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 75, Number: 2 (01 Apr 2002)

Published online: 16 Apr 2018
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A Tale of Three Circles
Charles I. Delman & Gregory Galperin

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 76, Number: 1 (01 Feb 2003)

Published online: 16 Apr 2018
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Upper Bounds on the Sum of Principal Divisors of an Integer
Roger B. Eggleton & William P. Galvin

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 77, Number: 3 (01 Jun 2004)

Published online: 16 Apr 2018
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Outwitting the Lying Oracle
Robb T. Koether & John K. Osoinach Jr.

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 78, Number: 2 (01 Apr 2005)

Published online: 16 Apr 2018
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Hammer Juggling, Rotational Instability, and Eigenvalues
Carl V. Lutzer

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 79, Number: 4 (01 Oct 2006)

Published online: 16 Apr 2018
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The Evolution of the Normal Distribution
Saul Stahl

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 79, Number: 2 (01 Apr 2006)

Published online: 16 Apr 2018
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Mom! There's an Astroid in My Closet!
Derek Seiple, Eugene Boman & Richard Brazier

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 80, Number: 2 (01 Apr 2007)

Published online: 16 Apr 2018
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Polish Mathematicians Finding Patterns in Enigma Messages
Chris Christensen

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 80, Number: 4 (01 Oct 2007)

Published online: 16 Apr 2018
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Touching the ℤ2 in Three-Dimensional Rotations
Vesna Stojanoska & Orlin Stoytchev

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 81, Number: 5 (01 Dec 2008)

Published online: 16 Apr 2018
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A Brief History of Impossibility
Jeff Suzuki

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 81, Number: 1 (01 Feb 2008)

Published online: 16 Apr 2018
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