Leroy P. Steele Prize
The Leroy P. Steele Prize is awarded from the legacy of Leroy P. Steele by the American Mathematical Society since 1970 in honor of George David Birkhoff , William Fogg Osgood and William Caspar Graustein . From 1970 to 1976 the publication of an outstanding mathematical work received an award. Since 1979, the annually awarded prizes can be assigned to categories that were officially named in 1993:
- Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research
- Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement
- Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition
Prize winner until 1978
| year | Award winners |
|---|---|
| 1970 | Solomon Lefschetz |
| 1971 | James B. Carrell , Jean Dieudonné and Phillip Griffiths |
| 1972 | Edward B. Curtis , William John Ellison , Lawrence E. Payne, and Dana Scott |
| 1973 | not awarded |
| 1974 | not awarded |
| 1975 | Lipman Bers , Martin Davis , H. Blaine Lawson , George Mackey, and Joseph L. Taylor |
| 1976 | not awarded |
| 1977 | not awarded |
| 1978 | not awarded |
Award winner since 1979
literature
- Steele Prizes. In: Everett Pitcher: A History of the Second Fifty Years. American Mathematical Society, 1939-1988. American Mathematical Society, Providence 1988, ISBN 0-8218-0125-2 , pp. 56-62 ( digitized version )