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MAA Writing Awards On this site you will find pdf copies of the articles that have won MAA journal writing awards over the years and short bios of the authors. Go to MAA Writing Awards		Loci Welcome to Loci, the online publication of MathDL. Loci is the continuation of three former MathDL publications: The Journal of Online Mathematics and its Applications (JOMA), Digital Classroom Resources (DCR), and Convergence. Go to Loci

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Until further notice, MAA Reviews and Classroom Capsules and Notes are accessible to everyone without any restriction. Now is a great time to see what those sites have to offer.

In Loci: Convergence read the new articles:

Logarithms: The Early History of a Familiar Function by Kathleen Clark and Clemency Montelle. The authors present and explore the work of both Napier and Burgi. The article includes photos of Burgi’s rarely seen handwritten and printed work.
A Disquisition on the Square Root of Three by Robert Wisner, in which the author compares Greek ladder, continued fraction, and Newton’s Method estimates, and notes that the Greek ladder easily gives both of Archimedes’ famous bounds.

Also take a look at the companion articles:

Servois' 1814 Essay on the Principles of the Differential Calculus, with an English Translation by Robert E. Bradley and Salvatore J. Petrilli, Jr., discusses the revolutionary notions of differential calculus in a revolutionary world as held by François-Joseph Servois (1768-1847). The article contains an English translation of the paper "Reflections" by Servois.
François-Joseph Servois: Priest, Artillery Officer, and Professor of Mathematics by Salvatore Petrilli.

What Does the iPad Mean for Math? Read the opinion of Tom Leathrum, Editor of Loci.

Check out the resource in Loci: Resources, Law of Averages Applet by Kady Schneiter. Toss a virtual coin or a virtual die 10,000 times to investigate the law of averages.

Lang Moore
Executive Editor of MathDL
July 14, 2010