Publications
First published in 2004, Convergence is the MAA's online journal, where history, mathematics, and teaching meet. It offers a wealth of resources to help instructors enrich their students' learning experience by teaching mathematics using its dynamic history.
Amy K. Ackerberg-Hastings and Daniel Otero, Editors
Convergence is an open access journal.
About
Convergence: Where Mathematics, History, and Teaching Meet is the MAA's open-access online journal about the history of mathematics and its use in teaching.
Convergence accepts the following types of articles:
Expository articles
Translations of primary sources
Classroom activities, projects, or modules
Classroom testimonials
Mathematical treasures
Historical problems
Historical mathematical events
Mathematical quotes
If you disregard the very simplest cases, there is in all of mathematics not a single infinite series whose sum has been rigorously determined. In other words, the most important parts of mathematics stand without a foundation.
Niels H. Abel (1802 - 1829)
In G. F. Simmons, Calculus Gems, New York: McGraw Hill, Inc., 1992, p. 188.
[A reply to a question about how he got his expertise:]
By studying the masters and not their pupils.
Niels H. Abel (1802 - 1829)
Niels H. Abel
Computers are composed of nothing more than logic gates stretched out to the horizon in a vast numerical irrigation system.
Stan Augarten
State of the Art: A Photographic History of the Integrated Circuit. New York: Ticknor and Fields.
Information for Authors
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History and Past Editors
Convergence was founded in 2004 by Victor J. Katz of the University of the District of Columbia and Frank J. Swetz of Pennsylvania State University, with funding from the National Science Foundation. Katz and Swetz edited it for over five years.
Using Convergence in the Classroom
Although the realm of possible classroom connections is infinite, the list in the link below offers several of the most common ways in which Convergence articles bring together the history of mathematics and the teaching of mathematics, along with examples of how these connections were realized in existing publications.