Chauvenet Prize
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The Chauvenet Prize is the highest award for mathematical expository writing
. It consists of a prize of $1,000 and a certificate, and is awarded yearly by the Mathematical Association of America
in recognition of an outstanding expository article on a mathematical topic. The prize is named in honor of William Chauvenet
and was established through a gift from J. L. Coolidge in 1925.
Winners to date have been the following: http://www.maa.org/Awards/chauvent.html
Expository writing
Expository writing is a type of writing where the purpose is to inform, explain, describe, or define the author's subject to the reader. Expository text is meant to deposit information and is the most frequently used type of writing by students in colleges and universities. A well-written...
. It consists of a prize of $1,000 and a certificate, and is awarded yearly by the Mathematical Association of America
Mathematical Association of America
The Mathematical Association of America is a professional society that focuses on mathematics accessible at the undergraduate level. Members include university, college, and high school teachers; graduate and undergraduate students; pure and applied mathematicians; computer scientists;...
in recognition of an outstanding expository article on a mathematical topic. The prize is named in honor of William Chauvenet
William Chauvenet
William Chauvenet was an early American educator. A professor of mathematics, astronomy, navigation, and surveying, he was always known and well liked among students and faculty....
and was established through a gift from J. L. Coolidge in 1925.
Winners to date have been the following: http://www.maa.org/Awards/chauvent.html
- 1925 G. A. Bliss
- 1929 T. H. Hildebrandt
- 1932 G. H. Hardy
G. H. HardyGodfrey Harold “G. H.” Hardy FRS was a prominent English mathematician, known for his achievements in number theory and mathematical analysis....- 1935 Dunham Jackson
Dunham JacksonDunham Jackson was a mathematician who worked within approximation theory, notably with trigonometrical and orthogonal polynomials. He is known for Jackson's inequality. He was awarded the Chauvenet Prize in 1935...- 1938 G. T. Whyburn
- 1941 Saunders MacLane
- 1944 R. H. Cameron
- 1947 Paul Halmos
Paul HalmosPaul Richard Halmos was a Hungarian-born American mathematician who made fundamental advances in the areas of probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis . He was also recognized as a great mathematical expositor.-Career:Halmos obtained his B.A...- 1950 Mark Kac
Mark KacMark Kac was a Polish mathematician. His main interest was probability theory. His question, "Can one hear the shape of a drum?" set off research into spectral theory, with the idea of understanding the extent to which the spectrum allows one to read back the geometry. Kac completed his Ph.D...- 1953 E. J. McShane
- 1956 R. H. Bruck
- 1960 Cornelius Lanczos
Cornelius LanczosCornelius Lanczos Löwy Kornél was a Hungarian-Jewish mathematician and physicist, who was born on February 2, 1893, and died on June 25, 1974....- 1963 Philip J. Davis
Philip J. DavisPhilip J. Davis is an American applied mathematician.Davis was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He is known for his work in numerical analysis and approximation theory, as well as his investigations in the history and philosophy of mathematics...- 1964 Leon Henkin
Leon HenkinLeon Albert Henkin was a logician at the University of California, Berkeley. He was principally known for the "Henkin's completeness proof": his version of the proof of the semantic completeness of standard systems of first-order logic.-The completeness proof:Henkin's result was not novel; it had...- 1965 Jack K. Hale & Joseph P. LaSalle
- 1967 Guido Weiss
- 1968 Mark Kac
Mark KacMark Kac was a Polish mathematician. His main interest was probability theory. His question, "Can one hear the shape of a drum?" set off research into spectral theory, with the idea of understanding the extent to which the spectrum allows one to read back the geometry. Kac completed his Ph.D...- 1970 Shiing Shen Chern
- 1971 Norman Levinson
Norman LevinsonNorman Levinson was an American mathematician. Some of his major contributions were in the study of Fourier transforms, complex analysis, non-linear differential equations, number theory, and signal processing. He worked closely with Norbert Wiener in his early career...- 1972 Jean Francois Treves
- 1973 C. D. Olds
- 1974 Peter D. Lax
- 1975 Martin Davis
Martin DavisMartin David Davis, is an American mathematician, known for his work on Hilbert's tenth problem . He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1950, where his adviser was Alonzo Church . He is Professor Emeritus at New York University. He is the co-inventor of the Davis-Putnam and the DPLL...
and Reuben HershReuben HershReuben Hersh is an American mathematician and academic, best known for his writings on the nature, practice, and social impact of mathematics. This work challenges and complements mainstream philosophy of mathematics.After receiving a B.A...- 1976 Lawrence Zalcman
- 1977 W. Gilbert Strang
- 1978 Shreeram S. Abhyankar
- 1979 Neil J. A. Sloane
- 1980 Heinz Bauer
Heinz BauerHeinz Bauer was a German mathematician.Bauer studied at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and received his PhD there in 1953 under the supervision of Otto Haupt and finished his habilitation in 1956, both for work with Otto Haupt...- 1981 Kenneth I. Gross
- 1982 No award given.
- 1983 No award given.
- 1984 R. Arthur Knoebel
- 1985 Carl Pomerance
Carl PomeranceCarl Bernard Pomerance is a well-known number theorist. He attended college at Brown University and later received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1972 with a dissertation proving that any odd perfect number has at least 7 distinct prime factors. He immediately joined the faculty at the...- 1986 George Miel
- 1987 James H. Wilkinson
James H. WilkinsonJames Hardy Wilkinson was a prominent figure in the field of numerical analysis, a field at the boundary of applied mathematics and computer science particularly useful to physics and engineering.-Early life:...- 1988 Steve Smale
- 1989 Jacob Korevaar
- 1990 David Allen Hoffman
- 1991 W. B. Raymond Lickorish and Kenneth C. Millett
- 1992 Steven G. Krantz
Steven G. KrantzSteven G. Krantz is an American mathematician of Hungarian,Austrian, French, and Sicilian descent who teaches at Washington University in St. Louis. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society for the period...- 1993 David H. Bailey
David H. BaileyDavid Harold Bailey is a mathematician and computer scientist. He received his B.S. in mathematics from Brigham Young University in 1972 and his Ph.D. in mathematics from Stanford University in 1976...- 1994 Barry Mazur
Barry Mazur-Life:Born in New York City, Mazur attended the Bronx High School of Science and MIT, although he did not graduate from the latter on account of failing a then-present ROTC requirement. Regardless, he was accepted for graduate school and received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1959,...- 1995 Donald G. Saari
Donald G. SaariDonald Gene Saari is the Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Economics and director of the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences at the University of California Irvine...- 1996 Joan Birman
Joan BirmanJoan Sylvia Lyttle Birman is an American mathematician, specializing in braid theory and knot theory. Her book Braids, Links, and Mapping Class Groups has become a standard introduction, with many of today's researchers having learned the subject through it...- 1997 Tom Hawkins
- 1998 Alan Edelman and Eric Kostlan
- 1999 Michael I. Rosen
- 2000 Don Zagier
Don ZagierDon Bernard Zagier is an American mathematician whose main area of work is number theory. He is currently one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany, and a professor at the Collège de France in Paris, France.He was born in Heidelberg, Germany...- 2001 Carolyn S. Gordon
Carolyn S. GordonCarolyn S. Gordon is a mathematician and professor of mathematics at Dartmouth College since 1992. She received her Bachelor of Science degree from the Purdue University, then studied at the Washington University, earning her Doctor of Philosophy in mathematics in 1979. Her doctoral advisor was...
and David L. Webb- 2002 Ellen Gethner, Stan Wagon, and Brian Wick
- 2003 Thomas C. Hales
- 2004 Edward B. Burger
- 2005 John Stillwell
John StillwellJohn Stillwell is an Australian mathematician on the faculties of the University of San Francisco and Monash University.He was born in Melbourne, Australia and lived there until he went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for his doctorate. He received his PhD from MIT in 1970, working...- 2006 Florian Pfender & Günter M. Ziegler
Günter M. ZieglerGünter M. Ziegler is a German mathematician. Ziegler is known for his research in discrete mathematics and geometry, and particularly on the combinatorics of polytopes.- Biography :...- 2007 Andrew J. Simoson
- 2008 Andrew Granville
Andrew GranvilleAndrew James Granville is a British mathematician, working in the field of number theory.He has been a faculty member at the Université de Montréal since 2002. Before moving to Montreal he was a mathematics professor at University of Georgia from 1991 until 2002...- 2009 Harold P. Boas
Harold P. BoasHarold P. Boas is an American mathematician.He received his A.B. and S.M. degrees in applied mathematics from Harvard University in 1976 and his Ph.D. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980 under the direction of Norberto Kerzman. He was a J. F...- 2010 Brian J. McCartin
- 2011 Bjorn Poonen
Bjorn PoonenBjorn Mikhail Poonen is a mathematician, four-time Putnam Competition winner and currently the Claude Shannon Professor of Mathematics at MIT.His research is primarily in number theory and algebraic geometry, but he has occasionally published in other subjects such as probability and computer...
External links
- Chauvenet Prize at MAA Awards
- Chauvenet Prizes at MathDL, including winning articles