A Century of Advancing Mathematics -- copyright page -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I Mathematical Developments -- The Hyperbolic Revolution: From Topology to Geometry, and Back -- A Century of Complex Dynamics -- Map-Coloring Problems -- Six Milestones in Geometry -- Defying God: the Stanley-Wilf Conjecture, Stanley-Wilf Limits, and a Two-Generation Explosion of Combinatorics -- What Is the Best Approach to Counting Primes? -- A Century of Elliptic Curves -- Part II Historical Developments -- The Mathematical Association of America: Its First 100 Years -- The Stratification of the American Mathematical Community: The Mathematical Association of America and the American Mathematical Society, 1915--1925 -- Time and Place: Sustaining the American Mathematical Community -- Abstract (Modern) Algebra in America 1870--1950: A Brief Account -- Part III Pedagogical Developments -- The History of the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics in the United States -- Inquiry-Based Learning Through the Life of the MAA -- A Passport to Pleasure -- Strength in Numbers: Broadening the View of the Mathematics Major -- A History of Undergraduate Research in Mathematics -- The Calculus Reform Movement: A Personal Account -- Introducing ex -- Part IV Computational Developments -- Computational Experiences in the Pre-Electronic Days -- A Century of Visualization: One Geometer's View -- The Future of Mathematics: 1965 to 2065 -- Part V Culture and Communities -- Philosophy of Mathematics: What Has Happened Since Gdel's Results? -- Twelve Classics People who Love Mathematics Should Know -- or, ``What do you mean, you haven't read E. T. Bell? -- The Dramatic Life of Mathematics: A Centennial History of the Intersection of Mathematics and Theater in a Prologue, Three Acts, and an Epilogue -- 2007: The Year of Euler -- The Putnam Competition: Origin, Lore, Structure.

Getting Involved with the MAA: A Path Less Traveled -- Henry L. Alder -- Lida K. Barrett -- Ralph P. Boas -- Leonard Gillman --- Reminiscences -- Paul Halmos: No Apologies -- Ivan Niven -- George Pólya and the MAA.