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Calling All Mathfest Organizers THE NEWSLETIER OF THE MATHEMATICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA Calling All Mathfest Organizers May/June 1999 The MAA Committee on Sessions of dergraduate curricula, although any Volume 19, Number 5 Contributed Papers selects the topics topic of interest to the MAA member­ and organizers for the contributed pa­ ship will be considered. per sessions at Mathfests and at the na­ To receive more information on how tional meeting. The committee would In This Issue to submit a proposal, to discuss your be delighted to hear from MAA mem­ idea for a proposal, or to suggest a topic bers who are interested in organizing 2 Proposed MAA for a course you would like to take, con­ sessions or who have suggestions for tact Nancy Baxter Hastings, Depart­ Mission topics. Statement ment of Mathematics and Computer Planning is now underway for the Science, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA Mathfest at UCLA, August 3-5, 2000, 17013; (717) 245-1626; e-mail: 2 Edwin MOlse and for the Joint Meetings in New Or­ [email protected].• Dies at 79 leans,January 10-13, 2001. The dead­ line for receipt of proposals for the Los Tom Banchoff to Give 3 Woody Dudley on Angeles Mathfest is July 31, 1999, and F~tLeiuelLecnue the CMJ for the joint meetings is December 31, 1999. The first Leitzel Lecture has been 4 Contributed Send or e-mail proposal title, name(s) scheduled for Sunday, August 1, from Papers for and address(es) of the organizer(s), 8:30 to 9:20 a.m. at the Mathfest in and a one-page summary to the chair Providence, RI. The speaker will be January 2000 of the committee, Howard Penn. MAA President Thomas BanchofI. Meeting His talk is called "Teaching Stages." E-mail: [email protected] Address: Department of The Leitzel Lecture series was estab­ 7 ARUME Calls for Mathematics lished in memory of Jim Leitzel, an Papers U.S. Naval Academy active member of the MAA who con­ Annapolis, MD 21402 tributed in untold ways to the Asso­ 8 1998 Contribu- Phone: (410) 293-6702 ciation and to the improvement of mathematics teaching. tors to MAA Fax: (410) 293-4883 Programs The MAA Committee on Minicourses The Leitzel Lectures are supported is soliciting proposals for new by the Leitzel Lecture Fund, whose endowment has now reached over 10 Professional minicourses to be given at Mathfest 2000 at UCLA and the Joint Meetings $41,000. Over 400 donors have con­ Development in New Orleans. tributed to the fund. Most minicourses are related to the un- For more infonnation on the Leitzel Lecture Fund and on how you can make a donation to the MAA, see The Mathematical Association of America Postage paid at 1529 Eighteenth St., NW Washington. DC and MAA Online (www.maa.org) additional mailing f"J . Washington, DC 20036 offices FOCUS May/June 1999 Proposed New Mission Statement Reflects FOCUS Goals of MAA's Growth FOCUS is published by the Mathematical Tom Banchojj Association of America in January, Last January, Reasons Why February, March, April, MaylJ une, Augustl the MAA Board September, October, November, and We agreed that communication is one December. of Governors of our major activities and challenges. asked a group We already have successful journals at Editor: Harry Waldman, MAA; of officers, [email protected] different levels meeting the needs of members, and most members, and we will consider Managing Editor: Carol Baxter, MAA staff to prepare even more. [email protected] a set of recom­ mendations Our book publishing program is going Please address advertising inquiries to: that would well and promises to support the aims Carol Baxter, MAA; [email protected] guide the Asso­ of our A~sociation even more. These President: Thomas Banchoff, Brown ciation in the first three years of the new aims have helped to shape MAA Online University century. In late March, a 19-member as it grows and evolves into one of our First Vice-President: Anita Solow, planning group devoted two days to set­ most important sources of day-to-day Randolph-Macon Woman's College ting priorities for the Association's fu­ information and into a forum for the ture. discussion of issues of interest to mem­ Second Vice-President: Ed Dubinsky, bers in general, and to subgroups of Georgia State University As part of the charge to answer the ques­ members with special concerns. Secretary: Martha Siegel, Towson tion, "Who are we and who are we for?" University we formulated a new mission statement The interconnected activities of teach­ for the Association. The current mission ing and learning have been our focus Treasurer: Gerald J. Porter, University of statement reads, "To advance the math­ from the inception of the Association. Pennsylvania ematical sciences, especially at the col­ We continue to be the major voice sup­ Executive Director: Marcia P. Sward legiate level." porting the efforts of individuals and departments to do an ever better job Associate Executive Director and Direc­ We will propose to the Board of Gover­ of this primary responsibility. tor of PubUcations and Electronic Se.... nors an expanded mission statement for vices: Donald J. Albers the MAA, to read as follows: Many of our efforts will continue to in­ Letters to the editor should be addressed to volve cooperation with granting agen­ "To promote communication, teaching cies and other organizations concerned Harry Waldman, MAA, 1529 Eighteenth and learning, and research in math­ Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. with the advancement of our profes­ ematics and its uses, especially at the sion, particularly in the encouragement Subscription and membership questions collegiate level, for all who are inter­ should be directed to the MAA Customer ested in the mathematical sciences." Service Center, 800-331-1622; e-mail: see Mission on page 7 [email protected]; (301) 617-7800 (outside U.S. and Canada); fax: (301) 206-9789. FOCUS is a benefit of MAA membership. Edwin Moise, Former MAA President, Dies at 79 The subscription price to individual Edwin Evariste Moise, sity (1961-71), Moise served as the members is $6.00, which is included in the MAA's president in 1967-68. He was also annual dues. who served as MAA president, was a vice-president of the AMS, a fellow of Copyright © 1999 by the Mathematical specialist in topology, the American Academy of Arts and Sci­ Association of America (Incorporated). author of numerous ences, and on the faculty of Queens Educational institutions may reproduce textbooks, and crypt­ College of the City University of New articles for their own use, but not for sale, analyst in the Office of York (1971-87). He later devoted his provided that the following citation is used: time to studying 19th-century English "Reprinted with permission of FOCUS, the the Chief of Naval poetry. newsletter of the Mathematical Association Operations during the Second World of America (Incorporated)." War. He died last December of Moise's books included Elementary Ge­ complications following heart surgery. Periodicals postage paid at Washington, DC ometry from an Advanced Standpoint and additional mailing offices. Born in New Orleans, Moise graduated (Addison Wesley, 3rd edition, 1990), In­ from Tulane University in 1940. After troductory Problem Courses in Analysis and Postmaster: Send address changes to the Topology (Springer, 1982), Geometric To­ MAA, P.O. Box 90973, Washington, DC receiving his Ph.D. in mathematics pology in Dimensions 2 and 3 (Springer, 20090-0973. from the University of Texas in 1947, he taught at the University of Michigan !9711, Elements oj Calculu~ (Addison ISSN: 0731-2040; Printed in the United (1947-1960) and was a member of the Wesley, 1972), Number Systems ofElemen­ States of America. Institute for Advanced Study (1949-51). tary Math (Addison Wesley, 1966), and During his tenure at Harvard Univer- Calculus, Part I (Addison Wesley, 1966). 2 May/June 1999 FOCUS On Becoming Editor of the College MathematicsJournal Woody Dudley The first thing you do is you feel pose I'll continue to get phone calls like aminations (some humble. The tradition ofMAAjournals the one that came last week from a of them dreadful), can be overwhelming. Think of the failed-to-be-accepted author. He had picks up the CM] Monthly, more than one hundred years sent his piece to the Monthly, but it was with the hope of old! How manyjournals are older than too long for the Notes section. Math­ finding something that? Not very many. The College Math­ ematics Magazine said that its level was that will be interest­ ematics Journal doesn't have quite that too low and I had said it was too high. ing, informative, or longevity, but it has published contri­ "But this is new," the author said, "and both. There'll be a butions from Paul Halmos, George people should know about it." He's commemoration of P6lya, Ralph Boas, Peter Hilton, from right, but they may not. the 200th anniver­ sary of the death of Underwood Dudley Ivan Niven, H. S. M. Coxeter, two gen­ Turndowns are a part of mathematical Maria Agnesi, "the first woman in the erations of Tuckers (Albert and Alan), life. I once sent a paper to an editor on Western world who can legitimately be Anneli Lax, Richard Guy, ... -from the Monday and it came back (this was in called a mathematician" (Alexander first-magnitude luminaries, the novas prephotocopy days, when manuscripts Hahn), there'll be a paper on the even, of the profession. were returned) on Thursday. Or maybe subtleties of calculus, such as the func­ it wasn't until the next Monday, but it How can any mere mortal presume to tion which doesn't have a point of in­ was definitely a rejection.
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