George Pólya Award
The George Pólya Award is a mathematics prize introduced by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) in 1976 and awarded since 1977 for particularly elegant articles that have appeared in the college mathematics journal , also published by the MAA . The award named after George Pólya , which is awarded up to twice a year, is endowed with 1,000 US dollars (as of 2013) .
Award winners
| year | Award winners | items |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Christopher Catone | Bringing Calculus into Discrete Math via the Discrete Derivative Volume 50: 1 (2019), 21-27 |
| Adam Glesser , Matt Rathbun , Isabel Serrano , Bogdan D. Suceavă | Eclectic Illuminism: Applications of Affine Geometry Volume 50: 2 (2019), 82-92 | |
| 2019 | Stanley R. Huddy , Michael A. Jones | The Calculus Behind Generic Drug Equivalence Volume 49: 1 (2018), 2-9 |
| Peter McGrath | Newton's Shell Theorem via Archimedes' Hat Box and Single Variable Calculus Volume 49: 2 (2018), 109-113 | |
| 2018 | Ben Blum-Smith , Samuel Coskey | Fundamental Theorem on Symmetric Polynomials: History's First Whiff of Galois Theory Volume 48: 1 (2017), 18-29 |
| Stephen Kaczkowski | Mathematical Models for Global Mean Sea Level Rise Volume 48: 3 (2017), 162-169 | |
| 2017 | Viktor Blåsjö | How to Find the Logarithm of Any Number Using Nothing But a Piece of String Volume 47: 2 (2016), 95-100 |
| Travis Kowalski | The Sine of a Single Degree Volume 47: 5 (2016), 322-332 | |
| 2016 | Gordon Hamilton , Kiran S. Kedlaya , Henri Picciotto | Square-Sum Pair Partitions Volume 46: 4 (2015), 264–269 |
| Hassan Boualem , Robert Brouzet | To Be (a Circle) or Not To Be Volume 46: 3 (2015), 197-206 | |
| 2015 | David Joyner | The Man Who Found God's Number. Volume 45: 4 (2014), 258-266. |
| Michael Brilleslyper , Lisbeth Schaubroeck | Locating Unimodular Roots. Volume 45: 3 (2014), 162-168. | |
| 2014 | Adam E. Parker | Who Solved the Bernoulli Differential Equation and How Did They Do It? Volume 44: 2 (2013), 89-97. |
| Christiane Rousseau | How Inge Lehmann Discovered the Inner Core of the Earth. Volume 44: 5 (2013), 399-408. | |
| 2013 | Jacob Siehler | The Finite Lamplighter Groups: A Guided Tour. Volume 43: 3 (2012), 203-211. |
| David Applegate , Marc LeBrun , Neil JA Sloane | Carryless Arithmetic Mod 10 Volume 43: 1 (2012), 43-50. | |
| 2012 | TS Michael | Guards, Galleries, Fortresses, and the Octoplex , Volume 42: 3 (2011), 191-200. |
| Leslie A. Cheteyan , Stewart Hengeveld , Michael A. Jones | Chutes and Ladders for the Impatient , Volume 42: 1 (2011), 2-8. | |
| 2011 | Jonathan K. Hodge , Emily Marshall , Geoff Patterson | Gerrymandering and Convexity , Volume 41: 4 (2010), 312-324 |
| John Martin | The Helen of Geometry , Volume 41: 1 (2010), 17-27. | |
| 2010 | Andrew Barker | Evolutionary Stability in the Traveler's Dilemma , Volume 40: 1 (2009), 33-38 |
| Curtis Feist , Ramin Naimi | Topology Explains Why Automobile Sunshades Fold Oddly , Volume 40: 2 (2009), 93-98 | |
| 2009 | Lawrence Brenton | Remainder Wheels and Group Theory , Volume 39, no. 2, March 2008, 129-135 |
| Greg N. Frederickson | Designing a Table Both Swinging and Stable , Volume 39, No. 4, September 2008, 258-266 | |
| 2008 | Roland Minton , Timothy J. Pennings | Do Dogs Know Bifurcations? , Volume 38, no. 5, November 2007, 356-361 |
| Andrew J. Simpson | Pursuit Curves for the Man in the Moone , vol. 38, no. 5, November 2007, 330-338 | |
| 2007 | Richard Jerrard , Joel Schneider , Ralph Smallberg , John Wetzel | Straw in a Box , Volume 37, March 2006, 93-102 |
| Allen pan | Distortion of Average Class Size: The Lake Wobegon Effect , Volume 37, September 2006, 293-296 | |
| 2006 | Ezra Brown | Phoebe floats! , March 2005, 114-122 |
| James Sandefur | A Geometric Series from Tennis , May 2005, 224-226 | |
| 2005 | Brian Hopkins , Robin J. Wilson | The Truth About Königsberg , May 2004, page 198 |
| Stephen M. Walk | Mind Your ∃s and ∀s (Nov 2004, 362) | |
| 2004 | Greg N. Frederickson | A New Wrinkle on an Old Folding Problem , September, 2003, vol. 34 (4) pp. 258-263 |
| 2003 | David L. Finn | Can a Bicycle Create a Unicycle Track? , Volume 33 (2002), 283-292 |
| Dan Kalman | An Undetermined Linear System for GPS , Volume 33 (2002), 384-390 | |
| 2002 | Timothy G. Freeman | Conformality, the Exponential Function, and World Map Projections , Volume 32, Nov. 2001, 334-342 |
| 2001 | Ezra A. Brown | Three Fermat Trails to Elliptic Curves , Volume 31, No. 3, (2000), 162-172 |
| Chip Ross , Jody M. Sorensen | Will the Real Bifurcation Diagram Please Stand Up! , Volume 31, No. 1, (2000), 2-14 | |
| 2000 | Ezra Brown | Square roots from 1; 24, 51, 10 to Dan Shanks , Volume 30 (1999), 82-95 |
| Martin Gardner | The asymmetric propeller , Vol. 30 (1999), 18-22 | |
| 1999 | Aaron Klebanoff , John Rickert | Studying the Cantor Dust at the Edge of the Feigenbaum Diagrams, Taco , Volume 29 (1998), 189-198 |
| David Bleecker , Lawrence J. Wallen | The World's Biggest Taco , Vol. 29 (1998), 2-17 | |
| 1998 | Kevin G. Kirby | Of Memories, Neurons, and Rank-One Corrections , Vol. 28 (1997), 2-19 |
| Aimee Johnson , Kathleen Madden | Putting the Pieces Together: Understanding Robinson's Nonperiodic Tilings , Volume 28 (1998), 172-181 | |
| 1997 | Chris Christensen | Newton's Method for Resolving Affected Equations , Volume 27 (1996), 330-340 |
| Leon Harkleroad | How Mathematicians Know What Computers Can't Do , Volume 27 (1996), 37-42 | |
| 1996 | John H. Ewing | Can We See the Mandelbrot Set? (1995) 26: 90-99 |
| James G. Simmonds | A New Look at an Old Function, e , Volume 26 (1995), 6-10 | |
| 1995 | Anthony P. Ferzola | Euler and Differentials , Vol. 25 (1994), 102-111 |
| Paulo Ribenboim | Prime Number Records , Volume 25 (1994), 280-290 | |
| 1994 | Charles W. Groetsch | Inverse Problems and Torricelli's Law , Volume 24 (1993), 210-217 |
| Dan Kalman | Six Ways to Sum a Series (1993) 24: 402-421 | |
| 1993 | LH Lange , JW Miller | A Random Ladder Game: Permutations, Eigenvalues, and Convergence of Markov Chains , Vol. 23 (1992), 373-385 |
| DN MacKenzie | Triquetras and Porisms , Vol. 23 (1992), 118-131 | |
| 1992 | William Dunham | Euler and the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra , Volume 22 (1991), 282-293 |
| Howard Eves | Two Surprising Theorems on Cavalieri Congruence , Volume 22 (1991), 118-124 | |
| 1991 | William B. Gearhart , Harris S. Shultz | The Function Sin x / x , Vol. 21 (1990), 90-99 |
| Mark F. Schilling | The Longest Run of Heads , Volume 21 (1990), 196-207 | |
| 1990 | Israel little one | Evolution of the Function Concept: A Brief Survey , Volume 20 (1989), 282-300 |
| D. Neidinger | Automatic Differentiation & APL , Volume 20 (1989), 238-251 | |
| 1989 | Beverly L. Brechner , John C. Mayer | Antoine's Necklace - or How to Keep a Necklace from Falling Apart , Volume 19 (1988), 306-320 |
| Edward Rozema | Why Should We Pivot in Gaussian Elimination? 19: 63-72 (1988) | |
| 1988 | Dennis M. Luciano , Gordon D. Pritchett | Cryptology: From Caesar Ciphers to Public-Key Cryptosystems , Volume 18 (1987), 2-17 |
| V. Frederick Rickey | Isaac Newton: Man, Myth, and Mathematics , Volume 18, (1987), 362-389 | |
| 1987 | Irl C. Bivens | What a Tangent Line Is When It Isn't a Limit , Volume 17 (1986), 133-143 |
| Constance Reid | The Autobiography of Julia Robinson , Volume 17 (1986), 2-21 | |
| 1986 | Philip J. Davis | What do I know? A Study of Mathematical Self-Awareness , Volume 16 (1985), 22-41 |
| 1985 | Anthony Barcellos | The Fractal Geometry of Mandelbrot , Volume 15 (1984), 98-114 |
| Kay Dundas | To Build a Better Box , 15: 30-36 (1984) | |
| 1984 | Ruma Falk , Maya Bar-Hillel | Probabilistic Dependence Between Events , Volume 14 (1983), 240-247 |
| Richard J. Trudeau | How Big is a Point? (1983) 14: 295-300 | |
| 1983 | Paul R. Halmos | The Thrills of Abstraction , Volume 13 (1982), 243-251 |
| Douglas R. Hofstadter | Analogies and Metaphors to Explain Gó's Theorem , Volume 13 (1982), 98-114 | |
| Warren Page , VN Murty | Nearness Relations Among Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion, Part 1 , Volume 13 (1982), 315-327 | |
| 1982 | John A. Mitchem | On the History and Solution of the Four-Color Map Problem , Vol. 12 (1981), 108-116 |
| Peter L. Renz | Mathematical Proof: What It Is and What It Ought to Be , Vol. 12 (1981), 83-103 | |
| 1981 | Gulbank D. Chakerian | Circles and Spheres , Vol. 11 (1980), 26-41 |
| Robert G. Dean , Ennis D. McCune , William D. Clark | Calculators to Motivate Infinite Composition of Functions , Volume 11 (1980), 189-195 | |
| 1980 | Robert Nelson | Pictures, Probability, and Paradox , Vol. 10, 182-190 (1979) |
| Hugh F. Ouellette and Gordon Bennett | The Discovery of a Generalization: An Example in Problem Solving , Volume 10 (1979), 100-106 | |
| 1979 | Richard L. Francis | A Note on Angle Construction , Volume 9 (1978), 75-80 |
| Richard Plagge | Fraction without quotients: Arithmetic of Repeating Decimals , Volume 9 (1978), 11-15 | |
| 1978 | Allen H. Holmes , Walter Sanders , John W. LeDuc | Statistical Inference for the General Education Student - It Can Be Done , Volume 8 (1977), pages 223-230 |
| Freida Zames | Surface Area and the Cylinder Area Paradox , Volume 8 (1977), 207-211 | |
| 1977 | Anneli Lax | Linear Algebra, A Potent Tool , Volume 7 (1976), 3-15 |
| Julian Weissglass | Small Groups: An Alternative to the Lecture Method , Volume 7 (1976), 15-20 |
See also
Web links
- George Pólya Awards at the MAA