Levi L. Conant Prize

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The Levi L. Conant Prize is an American Mathematical Society mathematics award that has been awarded since 2000 for outstanding explanatory mathematical work in the journals of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society and the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society . It is endowed with $ 1,000 and is awarded annually.

He is named after Levi L. Conant (1857-1916), a professor at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute , known as the author of the mathematics-anthropological book "The number concept" (1896). He left the AMS $ 10,000, which it used to fund the award named after him.

Award winners

  • 2001: Carl Pomerance for A Tale of Two Sieves. Notices of the AMS Vol. 43, No. 12, 1996, pp. 1473-1485
  • 2002: Elliott Lieb and Jakob Yngvason for A Guide to Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Notices of the AMS, Vol. 45, 1998, No. 5, pp. 571-581.
  • 2003: Nicholas Katz , Peter Sarnak for Zeroes of zeta functions and symmetry. Bulletin of the AMS, Vol. 36, 1999, pp. 1-26
  • 2004: Noam Elkies for Lattices, Linear Codes, and Invariants. Notices of the AMS, Vol. 47, 2000, Part 1: No. 10, pp. 1238-45; Part 2: No. 11, pp. 1382-91.
  • 2005: Allen Knutson , Terence Tao for Honeycombs and Sums of Hermitian Matrices. Notices of the AMS, Vol. 48, 2001, pp. 175-186
  • 2006: Ronald Solomon for A Brief History of the Classification of the Finite Simple Groups. Bulletin of the AMS, Vol. 38, 2001, No. 3, pp. 315-352.
  • 2007: Jeffrey Weeks for The Poincare Dodecahedral Space and the Mystery of the Missing Fluctuations. Notices of the AMS, Vol. 51, 2004, No. 6, pp. 610-619.
  • 2008: J. Brian Conrey for The Riemann Hypothesis. Notices of the AMS, Vol. 50, 2003, No. 3, pp. 341-353; and Shlomo Hoory , Nathan Linial , Avi Wigderson for Expander graphs and their applications. Bulletin of the AMS, Vol. 43, 2006, No. 4, pp. 439-561.
  • 2009: John Morgan for Recent Progress on the Poincaré Conjecture and the Classification of 3-Manifolds. Bulletin of the AMS, Vol. 42, 2005, pp. 57-78.
  • 2010: Bryna Kra for The Green-Tao Theorem on arithmetic progressions in the primes: an ergodic point of view. Bulletin AMS, Vol. 43, 2006, pp. 3-23
  • 2011: David Vogan for The Character Table for E8 , Notices of the AMS, Vol. 54, 2007, pp. 1122–1134
  • 2012: Persi Diaconis for The Markov chain Monte Carlo revolution , Bulletin AMS, Vol. 46, 2009, pp. 179–205
  • 2013: John Baez and John Huerta for The algebra of grand unified theories , Bulletin AMS, Vol. 47, 2010 pp. 483–552
  • 2014: Alex Kontorovich for From Apollonius to Zaremba: Local-global phenomena in thin orbits , Bulletin AMS, Vol. 50, 2013, pp. 187–228
  • 2015: Jeffrey Lagarias and Chuanming Zong for Mysteries in Packing Regular Tetrahedra , Notices of the AMS, Volume 59, 2012, pp. 1540–1549
  • 2016: Daniel Rothman for Earth's Carbon Cycle: A Mathematical Perspective , Bulletin of the AMS, Volume 52, 2015, pp. 86-102
  • 2017: David Harold Bailey , Jonathan Borwein , Andrew Mattingly and Glenn Wightwick for The Computation of Previously Inaccessible Digits of π2 and Catalan's Constant , Notices of the AMS, August 2013
  • 2018: Henry Cohn for his article A Conceptual Breakthrough in Sphere Packing, Notices of the AMS, February 2017
  • 2019: Alex Wright for his article From rational billiards to dynamics on moduli spaces, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, Volume Vol. 53, pp. 41–56
  • 2020: Amie Wilkinson for her article What are Lyapunov exponents, and why are they interesting? Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, Volume 54, pp. 79-105

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