Alvin White, founding father of the Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal , SENIOR EDITOR OF HMNJOL awhite@THUBAN.AC.HMC.EDU

The Humanistic Mathematics Nework Journal was supported by the ExxonMobil  Foundation for about 15 years.  It was mailed to over 3000 individuals and libraries all over the world. 

Programs and presentations at the national meetings of the Mathematics Association of America were sponsored  Mature and younger mathematicians contributed to the journal and presented talks.

Now the Foundation has ended its support and the journal will become an online publication.  The new editors are Sandra and Phil Keith of St. Cloud State in Minnesota.   The Keiths are longtime enthusiastic supporters of humanistic mathematics and experienced educators and editors. 

My expectation is that the new format will be as successful as the previous one was.

On a personal note, publishing HMNJ has been a fifteen year peak experience.  I am grateful to those who contributed to and supported the journal.

Sincerely,
Alvin White
Senior Editor

submitted spring-winter 2004
The editor, Alvin White, discussesTeaching and Learning Mathematics  (pdf format).
 

Frances Kuwahara (Lang) Chinn, of California State University (Charter School of Education) asks, Is Mathematics Education Taking a Step Backwards? The paper considers the recent history of mathematics teaching.   For MS Word doc, here.  Pdf file, here. Contact fkuwaha@calstatela.edu .	Roger Haglund, Concordia College (MN) discusses how Humanistic Mathematics Teaching Can Make a Difference.  Assessment measures for a humanistically taught course are provided.  For MS word doc, click  here.  Contact haglund@cord.edu.
Neil Greenspan, .Case Western Reserve University (Biomedical Research).  In  Taxicab Geometry as a Vehicle for the Journey Toward Enlightenment  the author uses a mathematical model (taxicab geometry) to demonstrate  the need for careful, explicit definitions in other fields ("closeness", "distance"). For MS Word doc, please click here.   Pdf file, here.    Contact nsg@po.cwru.edu.	Martin Glover, Milligan College, tells an illustrated  story in Tesselland . In the author's words,  this is a "Sci-Fi short story retelling of a vision about an ecentric old professor's quest to produce life and how a few of his bright students are drawn into his pursuit-turned-dilemma. "  For MS word doc, click here.  Email MGLOVER@Milligan.edu.
How are mathematicians perceived? Carmen Latterell and Janelle Wilson  (left and right) of the University of Minnesota, Duluth offer a combined mathematics-sociology perspective on    Popular Cultural Portrayals of Those who Do Mathematics . For MS word doc, click here:  For Pdf file, here.  Email  clattere@d.umn.edu.	Mike Pinter, Belmont University,  reminisces  on how Calculus changed his life by allowing him ways of thinking about the infinite in Bridging to Infinity.  For MS word doc, click here .  For Pdf file, here. Email pinterm@mail.belmont.edu.
Elie Feder of Kingsborough Community College uses a student's question to probe the meaning of probability in  (MS word doc):  Man’s Cards and God’s Dice  . For MS word doc, click here.   Pdf file, click here.  Contact efeder@kbcc.cuny.edu.	Sarah Littler discusses A Linear Perspective in Art. Pdf file, click here.  Sarah wrote this as a distinction honor paper at Point Loma Nazarene University.  Contact littler@precor.com.

submitted spring-winter 2003 

J.D. Phillips , Wabash College, Indiana, from (pdf file)  a talk given at the Second International Conference on the Teaching of Mathematics, Chersoniso, Crete, July, 2002. For details, email phillipj@wabash.edu For MS Word document, please click here.	Emam Hoosain : (pdf file)  What are Mathematical Problems?   This article diagnoses the understanding of teachers and students regarding problems and problem-solving.  For more details, email ehoosain@aug.edu. He maintains a web page on Middle Grade Mathematics ; click here. For MS Word document, please click here.
Stephen Brown: (pdf file) Humanistic Mathematics: Personal Evolution and Excavations.  One of the original guiding forces of the HMN and HMNJ, Stephen Brown reconsiders humanistic mathematics now and as it influenced him.  For an interesting web site and more Stephen Brown readings, check here.For MS Word document, please click here.	Philip Davis:  Mathematician/author Davis, from Brown University,  takes (pdf file)  A Brief Look at Mathematics and Theology  , offering  historical attitudes and some 20th century opinions.  For Philip Davis' web page, please click here. For  MS Word document, please click here.
Michael Fried: (pdf file) Humanistic Mathematics as Mathematics for All. Michael Fried, of Ben Gurion University, considers  what is meant by Mathematics-for-All--as subject matter and as a concern.  This article probes issues with  historical focus.  Contact mfried@bgumail.bgu.ac.il. For MS Word document, please click here.	Ramakrishnan Menon: (pdf file)  Innumeracy and its Perils, Numeracy and its Promises.  Ramakrishnan Menon, of California State University at Los Angeles, discusses some applied practical examples and demonstrates the advantages of numeracy. Contact   rmenon@calstatela.edu. For MS Word document, please click here.
Matt Becker, St. Cloud State University student, reviews (pdf file)  Fermat'sEnigma, by Simon Singh, with observations about the world in which mathematicians produce. Contact mattdave5710@mac.com.	Walter Sizer (with friend) of Minnesota State University at Moorhead discusses (pdf file) Base and Subbase in a Number System.   Please email sizer@mnstate.edu For MS Word document, please click here.
John Pottage, professor emeritus from University of Melbourne: (pdf file) From Art and Architecture to Mathematics/  From Intuition to Insight/From Decoration to Demonstration.For MS word document, please click here.	Shelly Keats Harkness, in Mathematics Education at Miami University, Ohio, discusses the quantitative and qualitative pleasures of running : (pdf file) Are You a Quantitative or Qualitative Runner? 5.13 Miles and Rosemary-Lilac Shampoo. Please email harkneml@muohio.edu. For MS Word document, please click here.