Euler Book Prize

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The Euler Book Prize is a Mathematical Association of America award for popular science or general-audience mathematics books. It is named after Leonhard Euler and has been awarded since the 300th year of his death in 2007. The prize was donated by Paul Halmos and his wife Virginia. The book must not be older than five years and must be published in English. The award is endowed with 2000 dollars.

Award winners

  • 2007 John Derbyshire , Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics , National Academy Press 2003
  • 2008 Benjamin H. Yandell , The Honors Class. Hilbert's Problems and their solvers , AK Peters 2002
  • 2009 Siobhan Roberts , King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the man who saved geometry , Walker and Company, New York 2006
  • 2010 David S. Richeson , Euler's Gem: The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology , Princeton University Press, 2008.
  • 2011 Timothy Gowers , (Editor and Co-Author) The Princeton Companion to Mathematics , Princeton University Press 2008
  • 2012 Daina Taimina , Crocheting Adventures with hyperbolic planes , AK Peters 2009 (illustrated book with knitting patterns for the hyperbolic plane, foreword by William Thurston )
  • 2013 Persi Diaconis , Ronald Graham , Magical Mathematics. The mathematical ideas that animate great magic tricks , Princeton University Press 2011
  • 2014 Steven Strogatz , The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity , Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, 2012
  • 2015 Edward Frenkel , Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality , Basic Books, 2013
  • 2016 Jordan Ellenberg , How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking , The Penguin Press, 2014
  • 2017 Ian Stewart , In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World , Basic Books, New York, 2012
  • 2018 Matt Parker , Things to make and do in the fourth dimension , Penguin 2015.
  • 2019 Cathy O'Neil , Weapons of Math Destruction , Crown 2016
  • 2020 Tim Chartier , Math Bytes: Google Bombs, Chocolate-Covered Pi, and Other Cool Bits in Computing , Princeton University Press (2014)

Web links

  1. JMM Prizebook 2019
  2. JMM Prizebook 2020