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Loci: ConvergenceHOMSIGMAA Student Paper Contest Winners HOMSIGMAA, the History of Mathematics Special Interest Group of the Mathematical Association of America, conducts annually a contest for the best papers in the history of mathematics by an undergraduate. The winners for 2008 are
1st prize: Constructivism: A Realistic Approach to Math?, by Mame Maloney of the University of Chicago
2nd prize (tie): Thinking Inside the Box: Geometric Interpretation of Quadratic Problems in BM 13901, by Woody Burchett, Georgetown College
Jean Le Rond D'Alembert: Biography of a Mathematician, Philosophe, and a Man of Letters, by Cole McGee, Colorado State University-Pueblo
Honorable Mention: Pathological Functions in the 18th and 19th Centuries, by Mame Maloney, University of Chicago.
These papers may be accessed in pdf format by clicking on the titles.
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The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established, the remainder of the principles of mathematics consists in the analysis of Symbolic Logic itself.
Principles of Mathematics. 1903.
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