Chauvenet Prize

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The Chauvenet Prize (English Chauvenet Prize ) is the highest US award for explanatory representation of mathematical knowledge (Expository Mathematical Writing) and is awarded annually by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). The prize is endowed with $ 1,000 in prize money. It is named in honor of William Chauvenet (a math professor at the US Naval Academy) and has been awarded since 1925, thanks to a donation from Julian Lowell Coolidge (1873–1954), professor and chairman of the mathematics faculty at Harvard and then president the MAA. Much of the award-winning work was published in the American Mathematical Monthly, the journal of the MAA.

Award winners

  • 1925: Gilbert Ames Bliss for Algebraic Functions and Their Divisors. In: Annals of Mathematics. Volume 26, 1924, pp. 95-124.
  • 1929: TH Hildebrandt for The Borel Theorem and Its Generalizations. In: Bulletin American Math. Soc. Volume 32, 1926, pp. 423-474.
  • 1932: Godfrey Harold Hardy for An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers. In: Bulletin American Math. Soc. Volume 35, 1929, pp. 778-818.
  • 1935: Dunham Jackson for The Convergence of Fourier Series. In: American Mathematical Monthly. Volume 41, 1934, pp. 67-84; Series of Orthogonal Polynomials. In: Annals of Mathematics. Volume 34, 1933, pp. 527-545 and Orthogonal Trigonometric Sums. In: Annals of Mathematics. Volume 34, 1933, pp. 799-814.
  • 1938: Gordon Thomas Whyburn for On the Structure of Continua. In: Bulletin American Math. Soc. Volume 42, 1936, pp. 49-73.
  • 1941: Saunders MacLane for Modular Fields. In: American Mathematical Monthly. Volume 47, 1940, pp. 67-84, and for Some Recent Advances in Algebra. In: American Mathematical Monthly. Volume 46, 1939, pp. 3-19.
  • 1944: RH Cameron for Some Introductory Exercises in the Manipulation of Fourier Transforms. In: Nat. Mathematics Magazine. Volume 15, 1941, pp. 331-356.
  • 1947: Paul Halmos for The Foundations of Probability. In: American Mathematical Monthly. Volume 51, 1944, pp. 493-510.
  • 1950: Mark Kac for Random Walk and the Theory of Brownian Motion. In: American Mathematical Monthly. Volume 54, 1947, pp. 369-391.
  • 1953: EJ McShane for Partial Orderings and Moore-Smith Limits. In: American Mathematical Monthly. Vol. 59, 1952, pp. 1-11.
  • 1956: Richard Bruck for Recent Advances in the Foundations of Euclidean Plane Geometry. In: American Mathematical Monthly. Vol. 62, 1955, pp. 2-17.
  • 1960: Cornelius Lanczos for Linear Systems in self-adjoint form. In: American Mathematical Monthly. Volume 65 1958, pp. 665-679.
  • 1963: Philip Davis for Leonhard Euler's Integral: An Historical Profile of the Gamma Function. In: American Mathematical Monthly. Volume 66, 1959, pp. 849-869.
  • 1964: Leon Henkin for Are Logic and Mathematics Identical? In: Science. Volume 138, 1962, pp. 788-794.
  • 1965: Jack K. Hale , Joseph P. LaSalle for Differential Equations: Linearity vs. Nonlinearity. In: SIAM Review. Volume 5, 1963, pp. 249-272.
  • 1967: Guido Weiss for Harmonic Analysis. In: Studies in Real and Complex Analysis. Pp. 124-178, MAA Stud. Math. Vol. 3, Mathematical Association of America, Washington, DC, 1965.
  • 1968: Mark Kac for Can One Hear the Shape of a Drum? In: American Mathematical Monthly. Volume 73, 1966, pp. 1-23.
  • 1970: Shiing-Shen Chern for Curves and Surfaces in Euclidean Space. In: Studies in Global Geometry and Analysis. Pp. 16-56, MAA Stud. Math., Volume 4, Mathematical Association of America, Washington DC, 1967.
  • 1971: Norman Levinson for A Motivated Account of an Elementary Proof of the Prime Number Theorem. In: American Mathematical Monthly. Volume 76, 1969, pp. 225-245.
  • 1972: François Treves for On Local Solvability of Linear Partial Differential Equations. In: Bulletin American Math. Soc. Volume 76, 1970, pp. 552-571.
  • 1973: CD Olds for The Simple Continued Fraction Expansion of e. In: American Mathematical Monthly. Volume 77, 1970, pp. 968-974.
  • 1974 Peter Lax for The Formation and Decay of Shock Waves. In: American Mathematical Monthly. Volume 79, 1972, pp. 227-241.
  • 1975: Martin Davis , Reuben Hersh for Hilbert's 10th Problem. In: Scientific American. Volume 229, May 1973, pp. 84-91.
  • 1976: Lawrence Zalcman for Real Proofs of Complex Theorems (and vice versa). In: American Mathematical Monthly. Volume 81, 1974, pp. 115-137.
  • 1977: W. Gilbert Strang for Piecewise Polynomials and the Finite Element Method. In: Bulletin American Math. Soc. Volume 79, 1973, pp. 1128-1137.
  • 1978: Shreeram Abhyankar for Historical Ramblings in Algebraic Geometry and Related Algebra. In: American Mathematical Monthly. Volume 83, 1976, pp. 409-448.
  • 1979: Neil Sloane for Error-Correcting Codes and Invariant Theory: New Applications of a Nineteenth-Century Technique. In: American Mathematical Monthly. Volume 84, 1977, pp. 82-107.
  • 1980: Heinz Bauer for Approximation and Abstract Boundaries. In: American Mathematical Monthly. Volume 85, 1978, pp. 632-647.
  • 1981: Kenneth I. Gross for On the Evolution of Noncommutative Harmonic Analysis. In: American Mathematical Monthly. Volume 85, 1978, pp. 525-548.
  • 1982: no prize awarded
  • 1983: no prize awarded
  • 1984: R. Arthur Knoebel for Exponentials Reiterated. In: American Mathematical Monthly. Volume 88, 1981, pp. 235-252
  • 1985: Carl Pomerance for Recent Developments in Primality Testing. In: Mathematical Intelligencer. Volume 3, 1981, pp. 97-105.
  • 1986: George Miel for Of Calculations Past and Present: The Archimedean Algorithm. In: American Mathematical Monthly. Volume 90, 1983, pp. 17-35.
  • 1987: James H. Wilkinson for The Perfidious Polynomial. In: Studies in Numerical Analysis. Pp. 1-28, MAA Stud. Math. 1984.
  • 1988: Steve Smale for On the Efficiency of Algorithms in Analysis. In: Bulletin American Math. Soc. (NS). Volume 13, 1985, pp. 87-121.
  • 1989: Jacob Korevaar for Ludwig Bieberbach's Conjecture and Its Proof by Louis de Branges . In: American Mathematical Monthly. Volume 93, 1986, pp. 505-514.
  • 1990: David Allen Hoffman for The Computer-Aided Discovery of New Embedded Minimal Surfaces. In: Mathematical Intelligencer. Volume 9, 1987, pp. 8-21
  • 1991: WB Raymond Lickorish , Kenneth C. Millett for The New Polynomial Invariants of Knots and Links. In: Mathematics Magazine. Volume 61, 1988, pp. 2-23.
  • 1992: Steven G. Krantz for What is Several Complex Variables? In: American Mathematical Monthly. Volume 94, 1987, pp. 236-256.
  • 1993: David Harold Bailey , Jonathan Borwein , Peter Borwein für Ramanujan, Modular Equations, and Approximations to Pi, or, How to Compute One Billion Digits of Pi. In: American Mathematical Monthly. Volume 96, 1989, pp. 201-219.
  • 1994: Barry Mazur for Number Theory as Gadfly. In: American Mathematical Monthly. Volume 98, 1991, pp. 593-610.
  • 1995: Donald G. Saari for A Visit to the Newtonian N-body Problem Via Elementary Complex Variables. In: American Mathematical Monthly. Volume 97, 1990, pp. 105-119.
  • 1996: Joan Birman for New Points of View in Knot Theory. In: Bulletin American Math. Soc. (NS). Volume 28, 1993, pp. 253-287.
  • 1997: Thomas W. Hawkins for The birth of Lie's theory of groups. In: Mathematical Intelligencer. Volume 16, 1994, pp. 6-17.
  • 1998: Alan Edelman , Eric Kostlan for How many zeros of a random polynomial are real? In: Bulletin American Math. Soc. (NS). Volume 32, 1995, pp. 1-37.
  • 1999: Michael Rosen for Niels Hendrik Abel and equations of the fifth degree. In: American Mathematical Monthly. Volume 102, 1995, pp. 495-505.
  • 2000: Don Zagier for Newman's short proof of the prime number theorem. In: American Mathematical Monthly. Volume 104, 1997, pp. 705-708.
  • 2001: Carolyn S. Gordon , David L. Webb for You can't hear the shape of a drum. In: American Scientist. Volume 84, 1996, pp. 46-55.
  • 2002: Ellen Gethner , Stan Wagon , Brian Wick for A Stroll through the Gaussian Primes. In: American Mathematical Monthly. Volume 105, 1998, pp. 327-337.
  • 2003: Thomas Hales for Cannonballs and Honeycombs. In: Notices of the AMS, April 2000. Volume 47, pp. 440-449.
  • 2004: Edward B. Burger for Diophantine Olympics and World Champions: Polynomials and Primes Down Under. In: The American Mathematical Monthly. November 2000, pp. 822-829.
  • 2005: John Stillwell for The Story of the 120-Cell. In: Notices of the AMS. January 2001, pp. 17-24.
  • 2006: Florian Pfender , Günter M. Ziegler for Kissing Numbers, Sphere Packings, and Some Unexpected Proofs. In: Notices of the AMS. September 2004, pp. 873-883.
  • 2007: Andrew J. Simoson , for The Gravity of Hades. In: Mathematics Magazine. Volume 75, December 2002, pp. 335-350.
  • 2008: Andrew Granville , for It is easy to determine whether a given integer is prime. In: Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. Volume 42, 2005, pp. 3-38.
  • 2009: Harold P. Boas : Reflections on the Arbelos. In: American Mathematical Monthly. Volume 113, 2006, pp. 236-249.
  • 2010: Brian J. McCartin : e: The Master of All. In: The Mathematical Intelligencer. Volume 28, 2006, No. 2, pp. 10-21.
  • 2011: Bjorn Poonen : Undecidability in Number Theory. In: Notices Amer. Math. Soc. Volume 55, 2008, No. 3, pp. 344-350.
  • 2012: Dennis DeTurck , Herman Gluck , Daniel Pomerleano , David Shea Vela-Vick : The Four Vertex Theorem and Its Converse. In: Notices of the American Mathematical Society. Volume 54, 2007, No. 2, pp. 192-207
  • 2013: Robert Ghrist : Barcodes: The Persistent Topology of Data. In: The Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. Volume 45, 2008.
  • 2014: Ravi Vakil : The Mathematics of Doodling. In: The American Mathematical Monthly. Volume 118, 2011, No. 2, pp. 116-129.
  • 2015: Dana Mackenzie : A Tisket, a Tasket, an Apollonian Gasket. In: American Scientist. Volume 98, 2010, No. 1, pp. 10-14. <
  • 2016: Susan Marshall , Donald R. Smith : Feedback, Control, and the Distribution of Prime Numbers. In: Mathematics Magazine. Volume 86, No. 3, June 2013.
  • 2017: Mark Schilling : The surprising predictability of long runs. In: Mathematics Magazine. Volume 85 (2012), 141-149.
  • 2018: Daniel Velleman : The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra: A Visual Approach. In: The Mathematical Intelligencer. Volume 87 (2015).
  • 2019: Tom Leinster : Rethinking Set Theory. In: The American Mathematical Monthly. 121 (2014), no. 5, 403-415.
  • 2020: Vladimir Pozdnyakov , J. Michael Steele : Buses, Bullies, and Bijections. In: Mathematics Magazine. Volume 89 (2016), no. 3, 167-176.

literature

  • James Abbott (Ed.): The Chauvenet Papers. 2 volumes. MAA 1978 (print of the work up to the reference date)

Web links

  • The Chauvenet Prize on the MAA website
  • Almost all articles are available as PDF at MathDL or linked: mathdl.maa.org
  • Articles in the Bulletin of the AMS (by Smale, Granville, Treves, Hardy, Birman, Strang, Edelman, Whyburn, Hildebrandt): ams.org

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ams.org (PDF)
  2. ↑ ams.org (PDF)
  3. ↑ ams.org (PDF)
  4. ↑ ams.org (PDF)
  5. ↑ JMM Prizebook 2019
  6. ↑ JMM Prizebook 2020