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Matheompetidcms THE NEWSLETTER OF THE MATHEMATICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA Augustl Twenty-Three Mathematicians Wm 1998 September SectionAwardsforDistinguished Teaching 1998 By Henry Alder Twenty-three mathematicians won this well as other ways ofsharing the tal­ Volume 18, Number 6 year's Section Awards for Distinguished ents of these outstanding teachers. Teaching, which were conferred at the Still, there are a few sections that do spring meetings of their sections. The not give awards. The national com­ latest winners represent the seventh mittee urges these sections to nomi­ group ofawardees since the inception nate and reward outstanding teach­ In This Issue of the awards in 1992. ers, and encourages all members of The Committee on the Deborah and the Association to nominate worthy 2 Mathematical Franklin Tepper Haimo Awards for Dis­ candidates. You may even nominate Breakthrough tinguished College or University Teach­ someone not in your section by writ­ ing of Mathematics has nominated at ing to that person's section commit­ 3 President's most three of these winners for the na­ tee. tional Deborah and Franklin Tepper The larger the pool of outstanding Repo.-t Haimo Awards. The MAA's Board of nominations, the easier it will be to Governors acted on the nominations at maintain the high standards for sec­ 4-6 Contributed the summer meeting in Toronto, and tional and national awards. Hope­ the national award winners will speak Papen fully, this fall every one ofthe MAA's oftheir successes as teachers at the an­ 29 sections will have a nomination nual meeting in San Antonio in Janu­ 6 New Math and selection procedure in place. ary,1999. Horizons Editon That 23 of the MAA's 29 sections se­ See Awardees on pages 8 Be 9 lected awardees speaks well of the sec­ tional support for the national effort to 8-' Section identity, reward, and honor outstand­ Andreescu Appointed Awards ing college teachers ofmathematics in the United States and Canada. The na­ Director ofAmeriam 11 Lettentothe tional committee commends the sec­ Math eompetidcms EdItor tions for their efforts. Some sections routinely invite their award winners to Titu Alidreescu has been apPointed address their section, and the national Direetor ofthe American ~themat­ committee welcomes this practice as ics Competitions. Andreescu, who serves as chair ofthe USA Mathemati­ cal Olympiad Committee and head The Mathematical Association of America Postage paid at coach or the United States' teattl to 1529 Eighteenth St., NW Washington, DC and the International Mathe:matical additional mailing offices Washington, DC 20036 Olympiad, will assume the paddon in January, 1999. He wiD replaceWalter **********************5-DIGIT 45504 Mientka.,who has servedaa executive 232325000 08N FG98 1298 001 8407 P7 director of the competitions since I 1975. 2 S2 !i!!£! & Ce: II For more, see MAAOnline+? " 7 http://www.maa.org. !,,!,!.I,,I i LII" II L I I" I,!II, !!!I! " I, I"I!II ,IL" ," III FOCUS August/September 1998 Mathematical Breakthrough: Melanie Wood FOCUS Becomes Everto Spotonthe United FOCUS is published by the Mathematical FII'St Girl Wm Association of America in January, States Mathematical OlympiadTeam February, March, April, May/June, August/September, October, November, and December. For the first time in history. a high the mathematical education of all stu­ school girl made the USA Mathemati­ dents. Editor: Harry Waldman, MAA; cal Olympiad (USAMO) team. Melanie The eight winners of the USAMO are [email protected] Wood, a junior at Park Tudor High living proofthat we have in our schools School in Indianapolis, not only made Maoaging Editor: Carol Baxter, MAA; some of the very best mathematics stu­ [email protected] the 1998team, she tied for the first place dents in the world. Melanie will be an slot with sophomore Sasha Schwartz Advertising Coordinator: Joseph inspiration to girls around the country. (Radnor High School, Radnor, PA). Watson. MAA; [email protected] We believe that she is only the first of PresIdent: Gerald L.Alexanderson, Santa The other US team members (in alpha­ an increasing number ofAmerican girls Clara University betical order) were Reid Barton, home achieving at the highest levels in math­ schooled, Arlington, MA, grade 9 ematical competitions in the United First Vice-President: Anita Solow, equivalent; Gabriel Carroll, Oakland States and internationally." Randolph-Macon Women's College Technical High School, Oakland, CA, ProfessorWalter E. Mientka ofthe Uni­ Second Vice-President: Ed Dubinsky, grade 9; Kevin D. Lacker, Sycamore versity ofNebraska has served as Execu­ Georgia State University High School, Cincinnati, OH, grade 12; tive Director of the American Math­ and Paul A. Valiant, Milton Academy, Secretary: Martha Siegel, Towson ematics Competitions for twenty-three Milton, MA, grade 9. (The alternates University years. He said, "Melanie Wood's were David T. Vickrey, Vermillion High achievement is a real breakthrough. I Treasurer: Gerald J. Porter, University School, Vermillion, SD, grade 12; and lookforward to a much larger presence of Pennsylvania David E. Speyer, Choate Rosemary Hall, ofgirls on future USAMO teams." Executive Director: Marcia P. Sward Wallingford, CT, grade 12.) Titu Andreescu has been Head Coach Associate Executive Director and Di­ In lateJuly, the USAMO team traveled of the USA IMO team since 1995. In rector of PubUcations and Electronic to Taipei, Taiwan, to compete in the 1996, the USA 1M0 team under Coach Services: Donald J. Albers International Mathematical Olympiad Andreescu finished second in the In­ (IMO). Letters to the editor should be addressed ternational Mathematics Olympiad. "I, to Harry Waldman, MAA, 1529 A series of three challenging math­ too," said Andreescu, "am excited by Eighteenth Street, NW, Washington, DC ematical competitions was used to se­ the breakthrough." The future "looks 20036. lect the USAMO team. In March, more very bright for the performance of the Subscription and membership questions than 350,000 students participated in USA team in the International Math­ should be directed to the MAA Customer the American High School Mathemat­ ematical Olympiads of 1999,2000, and Service Center, 800-331-1622; e-mail: ics Examination, the first of the com­ 2001." • [email protected]; (301) 617-7800 petitions. Two exams and dozens of (outside U.S. andCanada); fax:(301) 206­ tough problems later, the six-member­ ~ 9789. FOCUS is a benefit of MAA Results of the 1998 IMO can be membership. The subscription price to team and two alternates emerged as the found onMAA Online, http://www.maa.org individual members is $6.00, which is top mathematics students in the USA. included in the annual dues. The examinations Copyright © 1998 by the Mathematical were administered by Association of America (Incorporated). the American Math­ Educational institutions may reproduce ematics Competitions, articles for their own use, but not for sale, a program ofthe Math­ provided that the following citation is ematical Association of used: "Reprinted with permission of America. FOCUS, the newsletter of the Mathematical Association of America Professor Gerald (Incorporated). " Alexanderson, Presi­ Periodicals postage paid at Washington, dent of the MAA, was DC and additional mailing offices. delighted by the re­ sults. "The achieve­ Postmaster: Send address changes to the Photograph byRobert Allen Strawn. ment of Wood and •• • • .. -1W MAA, P.O. Box 90973, Washington, DC Sasha Schwartz comes StandiTl;g outside the National Academy ofSciences are tIJ.e 1998 ~USA 20090-0973. ~aul at an important time, Mathematical Olympiad Winner.s;leftto. right: GabrielD. Carroll, A. Valiant, Kevin D. Lacker, Melanie Eggers Wood, Sasha Schwartz.,. ISSN: 0731-2040; Printed in the United as we seek to improve David T. Vickrey, David E. Speyer, and Reid W Barton. States of America. 2 August/September 1998 FOCUS President's Report: Mathfests and Other Business By Gerald L. Alexanderson tion period. We're hearing of new I'm pleased to report that the MAA's Project NExT-type activities being de­ hard-working and inspired program veloped within the Sections, and that's committees came up with lists of prin­ good news. At our Northern California cipal speakers at the Toronto Mathfest Section meeting this past spring, I was (as well as the upcoming annual win­ struck by how absolutely essential the ter meeting) that will be hard to top. Sections are to the health of this orga­ Toronto's list of speakers included nization. For many members, the work Nathaniel Dean, Joe Gallian, Ross ofthe Sections is their only direct con­ Honsberger, Andrew Odlyzko, Henry tact with the MAA, aside from receiv­ Pollak, Don Saari, Jean Taylor, and ing a journal or two, of course. There Margaret Wright. That's not even is an amazing range of good activities counting the people in the special ses­ going on in the Sections-and there are sions, the minicourses, and a short stellar programs at Section meetings course on magic! too. So, Section officers out there, keep The future of Mathfests remains com­ up the good work! plicated, however, if not downright dif­ There is also a national side to the MAA, ficult. Since the AMS's decision not to as we all know, and this is housed in meet with us during the summers, at President Gerald L. Alexanderson offices in Washington, DC. The historic least through the year 2000, the MAA young mathematicians who seek aca­ townhouses off Dupont Circle that has had to arrange summer meetings demic positions. Our Project NExT house ourWashington staffare beauti­ with the cooperation ofsibling organi­ ful and inviting and, after the renova­ aims to make new PhDs entering the zations like PME, NAM, AWM, and the tions of a few years back, safe. But the field more attractive to potential em­ Canadian Mathematical Society. And, buildings are old and bad things hap­ ployers. We recently have received rec­ since ourToronto meetings overlapped pen to old buildings, particularlywhere ommendations for action from our with SIAM meetings, ourmembers were extremes ofweathercan cause damage.
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