Lester Randolph Ford Award
The Lester Randolph Ford Award is an annual mathematics award of the Mathematical Association of America since 1964 . It is named after Lester Randolph Ford senior . It is awarded for outstanding contributions in the American Mathematical Monthly or in Mathematics Magazine . The award is endowed with $ 500. Several prizes are usually awarded each year:
Award winners
Prize winners included:
- David A. Cox 2012
- Graham Everest , Thomas Ward 2012
- Peter Sarnak 2012
- Ravi Vakil 2012
- Marvin Jay Greenberg 2011
- Tom Apostol with Mamikon Mnatsakanian 2010, 2008, 2005
- Richard Palais 2010
- Andrew Granville 2009, 2007
- Thomas Hales 2008
- Jeffrey C. Lagarias 2007, 1986
- Harold P. Boas 2006 (his work Reflections on the Arbelos also received the Chauvenet Prize ), 1978, 1970
- Gilbert Strand 2005
- Judith Grabiner 2010, 2005, 1998, 1984
- Noam Elkies 2004
- Rüdiger Thiele 2004
- Eleanor Robson 2003
- Peter Borwein 2002
- Bernd Sturmfels 1999
- Alan Beardon 1997
- Martin Aigner 1995
- Sheldon Axler 1995
- Fernando Q. Gouvêa 1995
- Israel Little 1995
- Bruce Berndt 1994, 1989
- Joseph Silverman 1994
- Carsten Thomassen (mathematician) 1993
- Donald Knuth 1993, 1975
- Clement WH Lam 1992
- Marcel Berger 1991
- Ronald Graham 1991
- Doron Zeilberger 1990
- Richard K. Guy 1989
- Stuart S. Antman 1987
- Peter Neumann 1987
- Jacob Korevaar 1987 (the essay also received the Chauvenet Prize)
- Michael E. Taylor 1986
- Donald G. Saari 1985
- John Milnor 1984, 1970
- Roger Howe 1984
- Joel Spencer 1984
- Robert Strichartz 1983
- Tony Rothman 1983
- Philip Davis 1982
- R. Arthur Knoebel 1982 (the article also received the Chauvenet Prize)
- Lawrence Zalcman 1981, 1975 (the essay also won the Chauvenet Prize)
- David Gale 1980
- Karel Hrbacek 1980
- Cathleen Synge Morawetz 1980
- Robert Osserman 1980
- Bradley Efron 1979
- Joseph B. Kruskal 1979
- Louis H. Kauffman , Thomas Banchoff 1978
- Neil Sloane 1978 (the essay also won the Chauvenet Prize)
- Shreeram Abhyankar 1977 (the essay also received the Chauvenet Prize)
- Joseph B. Keller 1977, 1976
- Paul Halmos 1977, 1971
- Branko Grünbaum 1976
- James E. Humphreys 1976
- Johannes Nitsche 1975
- Patrick Billingsley 1974
- Garrett Birkhoff 1974
- Martin Davis , 1974
- RJ Wilson 1974
- Jean Dieudonné 1973, 1971
- Samuel Karlin 1973
- Peter Lax 1973 (the article also received the Chauvenet Prize), 1966
- Lynn Arthur Steen 1973, 1974
- Raymond Wilder 1973
- Paul Cohn 1972
- William John Ellison 1972
- Leon Henkin 1972
- Victor Klee 1972
- George Forsythe 1971, 1969
- Olga Taussky-Todd 1971
- Norman Levinson 1970 (the essay also received the Chauvenet Prize)
- Ivan Niven 1970
- Pierre Samuel 1969
- Hassler Whitney 1969
- Daniel Pedoe 1968
- Hans Zassenhaus 1968
- DR Fulkerson 1967
- Mark Kac 1967 (the essay also received the Chauvenet Prize)
- Carl B. Allendoerfer 1966