Kenneth O. May Prize
The Kenneth O. May Prize is a prize awarded to historians of mathematics by the International Commission on the History of Mathematics (ICHM, “for outstanding contributions to the history of mathematics”). It has been awarded every four years since 1989 (generally at the ICHM congresses) and is named after Kenneth O. May , the founder of the ICHM. The prize is associated with a bronze medal.
Award winners
- 1989 Dirk Struik , Adolf Juschkewitsch
- 1993 Christoph Scriba , Hans Wußing
- 1997 René Taton
- 2001 Ubiratàn D'Ambrósio , Lam Lay Yong
- 2005 Henk Bos
- 2009 Ivor Grattan-Guinness , Radha Charan Gupta
- 2013 Menso Folkerts , Jens Høyrup
- 2017 Eberhard Knobloch , Roshdi Rashed
Web links
- ICHM: Kenneth O. May Prize in the History of Mathematics on mathunion.org
Individual evidence
- ^ Kenneth O. May Prize in the History of Mathematics. International Mathematical Union , accessed on October 12, 2019 : "for outstanding contributions to the history of mathematics"
- ↑ International Congress of History of Science and Technology