Euler Medal
Encyclopedia
The Euler Medal, named after the 18th century mathematician Leonhard Euler
, is an honor awarded annually by the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications
(Canada) to a member with a distinguished lifetime contribution to combinatorial
research who are still active in research.
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler was a pioneering Swiss mathematician and physicist. He made important discoveries in fields as diverse as infinitesimal calculus and graph theory. He also introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, particularly for mathematical analysis, such as the notion...
, is an honor awarded annually by the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications
Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications
The Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications is an international scientific organization. It was formed in 1990 and is based in Winnipeg, Canada.-Aim and membership:...
(Canada) to a member with a distinguished lifetime contribution to combinatorial
Combinatorics
Combinatorics is a branch of mathematics concerning the study of finite or countable discrete structures. Aspects of combinatorics include counting the structures of a given kind and size , deciding when certain criteria can be met, and constructing and analyzing objects meeting the criteria ,...
research who are still active in research.
Laureates
- 2008: Gabor Korchmaros
- 2007: Stephen Milne (USA), Heiko HarborthHeiko HarborthHeiko Harborth is Professor of Mathematics at Braunschweig University of Technology, 1975–present, and author of more than 188 mathematical publications...
(Germany) - 2006: Clement W.H. Lam (Canada), Nick Wormald (Canada)
- 2005: Ralph FaudreeRalph FaudreeRalph Jasper Faudree is a mathematician, a professor of mathematics and the provost of the University of Memphis.Faudree was born in Durant, Oklahoma. He did his undergraduate studies at Oklahoma Baptist University, graduating in 1961, and received his Ph.D. in 1964 from Purdue University under...
(U.S.), Aviezri FraenkelAviezri FraenkelAviezri Siegmund Fraenkel is an Israeli mathematician, who has made notable contributions to combinatorial game theory. He was born in Munichon June 7, 1929, but his family moved to Switzerland soon after. In 1939 his family moved once more to Jerusalem....
(Israel) - 2004: Doron ZeilbergerDoron ZeilbergerDoron Zeilberger is an Israeli mathematician, known for his work in combinatorics.He is a Board of Governors Professor of Mathematics at Rutgers University...
(U.S.), Zhu Lie (China) - 2003: Peter CameronPeter Cameron (mathematician)Peter Jephson Cameron is an Australian mathematician who works ingroup theory, combinatorics, coding theory, and model theory. He is currently Professor of Mathematics at Queen Mary, University of London....
(UK), Charles ColbournCharles ColbournCharles Joseph Colbourn is a Canadian computer scientist and mathematician, whose research concerns graph algorithms, combinatorial designs, and their applications...
(U.S.) - 2002: Herbert WilfHerbert WilfHerbert Saul Wilf is a mathematician, specializing in combinatorics and graph theory. He was the Thomas A. Scott Professor of Mathematics in Combinatorial Analysis and Computing at the University of Pennsylvania. He has written numerous books and research papers...
(U.S.) - 2001: Spyros Magliveras (U.S.)
- 2000: Richard A. BrualdiRichard A. BrualdiR. A. Brualdi is a professor emeritus of combinatorial mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He received the Euler medal from the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications in 2000. He received his Ph.D. from Syracuse University in 1964, his advisor was Herbert John Ryser....
(U.S.), Horst SachsHorst SachsHorst Sachs is a German mathematician, an expert in graph theory, a recipient of the Euler Medal .He earned the degree of Doctor of Science from the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg in 1958...
(Germany) - 1999: D.K. Ray-Chaudhuri (U.S.)
- 1998: Peter HammerPeter HammerPeter L. Hammer was an American mathematician native to Romania. He contributed to the fields of operations research and applied discrete mathematics through the study of pseudo-Boolean functions and their connections to graph theory and data mining.- Biography :Peter Ladislaw Hammer was born in...
(U.S.), Anthony Hilton (UK) - 1997: no award
- 1996: Jack van LintJack van LintJacobus Hendricus van Lint was a Dutch mathematician, professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology, of which he was rector magnificus from 1991 till 1996....
(Holland) - 1995: Hanfried LenzHanfried LenzHanfried Lenz is German mathematician, who is mainly known for his work in geometry and combinatorics.Hanfried Lenz is the eldest son of Fritz Lenz an influential German geneticist, who is associated with Eugenics and hence also with the Nazi racial policies during the Third Reich...
(Germany) - 1994: Joseph A. Thas (Belgium)
- 1993: Claude BergeClaude BergeClaude Berge was a French mathematician, recognized as one of the modern founders of combinatorics and graph theory. He is particularly remembered for his famous conjectures on perfect graphs and for Berge's lemma, which states that a matching M in a graph G is maximum if and only if there is in...
(France), Ronald GrahamRonald GrahamRonald Lewis Graham is a mathematician credited by the American Mathematical Society as being "one of the principal architects of the rapid development worldwide of discrete mathematics in recent years"...
(U.S.)