[3] An exploration of mathematically themed stamps, written by Robin Wilson, became one of its earliest columns.

[6] In 1978, the founders appointed Bruce Chandler and Harold "Ed" Edwards Jr. to serve jointly in the role of editor-in-chief.

"[6] Axler was even more categorical: “Controversies can make for interesting reading, especially in mathematics where we rarely argue about the scientific validity of a result.

[7] The rebuttal format was initially planned for a paper accepted by Senechal that was authored by Theodore Hill and Sergei Tabachnikov on the variability hypothesis.

Further controversy arose when a revised version of the paper, by Hill alone, was published by The New York Journal of Mathematics but then retracted without a notice.

[12] Apart from the Intelligencer's main articles, a humor column written by mathematician Colin Adams has also been well received.