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Student Paper Contest

HOMSIGMAA is pleased to announce the results of this year's Contest in the History of Mathematics. There were four winners:
1st place: Mame Maloney, University of Chicago,
"Constructivism: A
Realistic Approach to Math?  PDF paper 

2nd place (tie): Woody Burchett, Georgetown College,
"Thinking Inside
the Box: Geometric Interpretations of Quadratic
Problems in BM 13901"  PDF paper 

2nd place: Cole McGee, Colorado State
University-Pueblo, "Jean le Rond
D'Alembert: Mathematician, Philosophe, and Man of
Letters"  PDF paper 

Honorable mention: Mame Maloney, University of
Chicago, "Pathological
Functions in the 18th and 19th Centuries"  PDF paper 

2009 Student Writing Contest Details

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