The Monthly publishes articles, as well as notes and other features, about mathematics and the profession. Its readers span a broad spectrum of mathematical interests, and include professional ...

THIS is the first volume of Prof. Hancock's work and is intended as an introduction to the second volume. Its size shows that he is engaged in no light task. His object is to help in making the theory ...

A German mathematician, physicist and astronomer, Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss rose from humble origins to become one of the world’s greatest minds. Born in 1777 in Brunswick, then part of the Holy ...

WHAT is the minimum knowledge of the theory of numbers that every mathematician should have ? The question must be elaborated. “Should”, because ignorance is likely to detract from his efficiency ...