Mathematical Association
The Mathematical Association (MA) is a non-profit association for math teachers in the United Kingdom . It was founded in 1871 (as the Association for the Improvement of Geometrical Teaching) and has had its current name since 1894. Since 1894 it has also published The Mathematical Gazette for mathematics education , which appears three times a year .
After examining the candidates, it awards a diploma to prospective mathematics teachers who are completing a university degree.
The first president was Thomas Archer Hirst ; Presidents included Arthur Eddington , James Joseph Sylvester , Alfred North Whitehead , Godfrey Harold Hardy , Andrew Russell Forsyth , Robert Stawell Ball , Edmund Taylor Whittaker , Max Newman , George Temple , William Vallance Douglas Hodge , Mary Cartwright , Michael Atiyah and James Lighthill .
Its headquarters are on the De Montfort University campus in Leicester . It also has regional offices in Great Britain.
literature
- Michael H. Price: Mathematics of the Multitude? A History of the Mathematical Association , Mathematical Association 1994.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The Mathematical Gazette , with Cambridge University Press since 2015. It appears in March, July and November.