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VOL. 88, NO. 1, FEBRUARY 2015 1
The Math Mag Article Template
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Mathematics Magazine aims to provide lively and appealing mathematical exposi-
tion. The Magazine is not a research journal, so the terse style appropriate for such a
journal (lemma-theorem-proof-corollary) is not appropriate for the Magazine. Articles
should include examples, applications, historical background, and illustrations, where
appropriate. They should be attractive and accessible to undergraduates and would,
ideally, be helpful in supplementing undergraduate courses or in stimulating student
investigations. Manuscripts on history are especially welcome, as are those showing
relationships among various branches of mathematics and between mathematics and
other disciplines.
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Mathematics Magazine style
The Mathematics Magazine style incorporates the following LATEX packages. These
styles should not be included in the document header.
• times
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• color
• AMS styles: amsmath, amsthm, amsfonts, amssymb
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AT X packages should be minimized as much as possible. Math nota-
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manuscript preparation; or, if you have the appropriate fonts installed, the mathtime
or mtpro packages may be used, which will better approximate the finished article.
Web links can be embedded using the \url{...} command, which will result in
something like [Link] These links will be active and stylized in the
online publication.
First-level section heading
Section headings use an initial capital letter on the first word, with subsequent words
lowercase. In general, the style of the journal is to leave all section headings unnum-
bered. Consult the journal editor if you wish to depart from this and other conventions.
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Second-level heading The same goes for second-level headings. It is not necessary
to add font commands to make the math within heads bold and sans serif; this change
will occur automatically when the production style is applied.
Graphics and tables
Table for Math Mag should be set in an “open” style: rules above and below the head-
ing and a rule to end the table. Note the use of \abrule and \brule to improve
spacing in the table.
Under π(x) = #{primes ≤ x} = = Li(x)± Error
500000 41556 41606.4 − 50.4
1000000 78501 79627.5 − 126.5
1500000 114112 114263.1 − 151.1
2000000 148883 149054.8 − 171.8
2500000 183016 183245.0 − 229.0
3000000 216745 216970.6 − 225.6
TABLE 1: Sample table
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(italic, bold, etc.) as in the text.
3. Alternatively, both photographs and line art can be provided as PDF files. Note that
creating a PDF does not affect whether the graphic is a bitmap or vector; saving a
scanned piece of line art as PDF does not convert it to scalable line art.
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the manuscript. In the production process, TEX-generated graphics will eventually
be converted to more conventional graphics so the Mag can be delivered in e-reader
formats. We prefer graphics produced by draw programs so use TEX-generated art
as a last resort.
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author’s profile, so that production staff can crop the head shot to an equal height
and width. If possible, avoid photographs that have excess shadows or glare.
Theorems, definitions, proofs, and all that
Following the defaults of the amsthm package, styling is provided for theorem,
definition, and remark styles, although the latter two use the same styling.
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Theorem 1 (Pythagorean Theorem). Theorems, lemmas, axioms, and the like are styl-
ized using italicized text. These environments can be numbered or unnumbered, at the
author’s discretion.
Proof. Proofs set in roman (upright) text, and conclude with an “end of proof” (q.e.d.)
symbol that is set automatically when you end the proof environment. When the proof
ends with an equation or other non-text element, you need to add \qedhere to the
element to set the end of proof symbol; see the amsthm package documentation for
more details.
Definition (Secant Line). Definitions, remarks, and notation are stylized as roman text.
They are typically unnumbered, but there are no hard-and-fast rules about numbering.
Remark. Remarks stylize the same as definitions.
REFERENCES
1. S. Leader, What is a differential? A new answer from the generalized Riemann integral, Amer. Math. Monthly
93 (1986) 348–356.
2. W.-H. Steeb, Continuous Symmetries, Lie Algebras, Differential Equations and Computer Algebra. World
Scientific Publishing, River Edge, NJ, 1996, [Link]
3. E. C. Titchmarsh, The Theory of the Riemann Zeta-Function. Second edition. Edited and with a preface by D.
R. Heath-Brown. The Clarendon Press, Oxford Univ. Press, New York, 1986.
