Mathematical Association of America
American organization that focuses on undergraduate-level mathematics
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 at 11 Dupont in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The organization publishes mathematics journals and books, including the American Mathematical Monthly (established in 1894 by Benjamin Finkel), the most widely read mathematics journal in the world according to records on JSTOR.
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. On occasion the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics joins in these meetings. Twenty-nine regional sections also hold regular meetings.
Publications
The association publishes multiple journals in partnership with Taylor & Francis:
The American Mathematical Monthly is expository, aimed at a broad audience from undergraduate students to research mathematicians.
Mathematics Magazine is expository, aimed at teachers of undergraduate mathematics, especially at the junior-senior level.
The College Mathematics Journal is expository, aimed at teachers of undergraduate mathematics, especially at the freshman-sophomore level.
Math Horizons is expository, aimed at undergraduate students.
MAA FOCUS is the association member newsletter.
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