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I was reading Anneli Lax's excellent monograph on Linear Algebra and she refers to learning methods to yield $f_n$ (the $n^{th}$ Fibonacci number) directly (without first calculating $f_i \forall i<n$).

She says that this was also done by Paul Garrett (a high school student then) in his paper Matrix Eigenvalues: Characteristic Values in the May 1971 issue of The Mathematics Student Journal.

I believe this journal was published by the NCTM in the US. But I am not able to find it (perhaps I am not looking well enough on JSTOR). Do you know if this journal was discontinued or replaced by some other journal? Are its archives available somewhere?

PS: Was it the same Paul Garrett?

Kedar Mhaswade
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    I have a photocopy of that paper (and many others from the same journal), but I don't have time to look for it now. If you're interested, I'll look for it later and make a scan of the paper (my email address is in my MSE profile if you want to send me an email to reply to). I don't know if it's the same MSE Garrett (here also), but the publication year is definitely consistent (allowing for the fact that May 1971 could be 1-2 years after it was actually written). – Dave L. Renfro Sep 21 '23 at 07:50
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    Yes, that was me! :) – paul garrett Sep 21 '23 at 16:16

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"Mathematics Student Journal" was a scholarly journal published in United States focused on Education (ISSN is 0095-7089). It began in 1954 and ceased publication in 1973. It was continued by "Mathematics Student" which ceased publication in 1981.

This web-page in the Internet Archive is about a collection of microfilms of the journal published between 1970 and 1981. Here I found the first page of the the November 1971 issue. I was not able to retrieve the May issue of the same year.

Robert Z
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