The Chauvenet Prize is an annual award given by the

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in recognition of an outstanding expository article on a mathematical topic. It consists of a prize of $1,000 and a certificate. The Chauvenet Prize was the first award established by the Mathematical Association of America. The prize is named in honor of William Chauvenet and was established through a gift from

J. L. Coolidge Julian Lowell Coolidge (September 28, 1873 – March 5, 1954) was an American mathematician, historian, a professor and chairman of the Harvard University Mathematics Department. Biography Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, he graduated from Harv ...

in 1925. A gift from MAA president Walter B. Ford in 1928 allowed the award to be given every three years instead of the originally planned 5 years.

Winners

*1925 G. A. Bliss *1929 T. H. Hildebrandt *1932

G. H. Hardy Godfrey Harold Hardy (7 February 1877 – 1 December 1947) was an English mathematician, known for his achievements in number theory and mathematical analysis. In biology, he is known for the Hardy–Weinberg principle, a basic principle of pop ...

*1935 Dunham Jackson *1938 G. T. Whyburn *1941

Saunders Mac Lane Saunders Mac Lane (August 4, 1909 – April 14, 2005), born Leslie Saunders MacLane, was an American mathematician who co-founded category theory with Samuel Eilenberg. Early life and education Mac Lane was born in Norwich, Connecticut, near w ...

*1944 R. H. Cameron *1947

Paul Halmos Paul Richard Halmos (; 3 March 1916 – 2 October 2006) was a Kingdom of Hungary, Hungarian-born United States, American mathematician and probabilist who made fundamental advances in the areas of mathematical logic, probability theory, operat ...

*1950

Mark Kac Mark Kac ( ; Polish: ''Marek Kac''; August 3, 1914 – October 26, 1984) was a Polish-American mathematician. His main interest was probability theory. His question, " Can one hear the shape of a drum?" set off research into spectral theory, th ...

*1953 E. J. McShane *1956 Richard H. Bruck *1960

Cornelius Lanczos __NOTOC__ Cornelius (Cornel) Lanczos (, ; born as Kornél Lőwy, until 1906: ''Löwy (Lőwy) Kornél''; February 2, 1893 – June 25, 1974) was a Hungarian-Jewish, Hungarian-American and later Hungarian-Irish mathematician and physicist. Accordi ...

*1963

Philip J. Davis Philip J. Davis (January 2, 1923 – March 14, 2018) was an American academic Applied mathematics, applied mathematician. Biography Davis was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He was known for his work in numerical analysis and approximation theor ...

*1964

Leon Henkin Leon Albert Henkin (April 19, 1921, Brooklyn, New York – November 1, 2006, Oakland, California) was an American logician, whose works played a strong role in the development of logic, particularly in the Type theory, theory of types. He was an ...

*1965 Jack K. Hale & Joseph P. LaSalle *1967 Guido Weiss *1968

*1970 Shiing Shen Chern *1971

Norman Levinson Norman Levinson (August 11, 1912 in Lynn, Massachusetts – October 10, 1975 in Boston) was an American mathematician. Some of his major contributions were in the study of Fourier transforms, complex analysis, non-linear differential equations, ...

*1972 Jean Francois Treves *1973 Carl D. Olds *1974 Peter D. Lax *1975 Martin Davis and

Reuben Hersh Reuben Hersh (December 9, 1927 – January 3, 2020) was an American mathematician and academic, best known for his writings on the nature, practice, and social impact of mathematics. Although he was generally known as Reuben Hersh, late in life h ...

*1976 Lawrence Zalcman *1977 W. Gilbert Strang *1978 Shreeram S. Abhyankar *1979 Neil J. A. Sloane *1980

Heinz Bauer Heinz Bauer (31 January 1928 – 15 August 2002) was a German mathematician. Bauer studied at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and received his PhD there in 1953 under the supervision of Otto Haupt and finished his habilitation in 1956, b ...

*1981 Kenneth I. Gross *1982 No award given. *1983 No award given. *1984 R. Arthur Knoebel *1985

Carl Pomerance Carl Bernard Pomerance (born 1944 in Joplin, Missouri) is an American number theorist. He attended college at Brown University and later received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1972 with a dissertation proving that any odd perfect number ...

*1986 George Miel *1987

James H. Wilkinson James Hardy Wilkinson FRS (27 September 1919 – 5 October 1986) was a prominent figure in the field of numerical analysis, a field at the boundary of applied mathematics and computer science particularly useful to physics and engineering. Ed ...

*1988

Steve Smale Stephen Smale (born July 15, 1930) is an American mathematician, known for his research in topology, dynamical systems and mathematical economics. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1966 and spent more than three decades on the mathematics faculty ...

*1989 Jacob Korevaar *1990

David Allen Hoffman David Allen Hoffman is an American mathematician whose research concerns differential geometry. He is an adjunct professor at Stanford University. In 1985, together with William Meeks, he proved that Costa's surface was embedded. He is a fello ...

*1991 W. B. Raymond Lickorish and Kenneth C. Millett *1992 Steven G. Krantz *1993 David H. Bailey, Jonathan M. Borwein and Peter B. Borwein *1994

Barry Mazur Barry Charles Mazur (; born December 19, 1937) is an American mathematician and the Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University. His contributions to mathematics include his contributions to Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in ...

*1995 Donald G. Saari *1996 Joan Birman *1997 Tom Hawkins *1998

Alan Edelman Alan Stuart Edelman (born June 1963) is an American mathematician and computer scientist. He is a professor of applied mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Principal Investigator at the MIT Computer Science and Ar ...

and Eric Kostlan *1999 Michael I. Rosen *2000

Don Zagier Don Bernard Zagier (born 29 June 1951) is an American-German mathematician whose main area of work is number theory. He is currently one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany. He was a professor at the ''Co ...

*2001 Carolyn S. Gordon and David L. Webb *2002 Ellen Gethner, Stan Wagon, and Brian Wick *2003 Thomas C. Hales *2004 Edward B. Burger *2005

John Stillwell John Colin Stillwell (born 1942) is an Australian mathematician on the faculties of the University of San Francisco and Monash University. Biography He was born in Melbourne, Australia and lived there until he went to the Massachusetts Instit ...

*2006 Florian Pfender & Günter M. Ziegler *2007 Andrew J. Simoson *2008

Andrew Granville Andrew James Granville (born 7 September 1962) is a British mathematician, working in the field of number theory. Education Granville received his Bachelor of Arts (Honours) (1983) and his Certificate of Advanced Studies (Distinction) (1984) ...

*2009

Harold P. Boas Harold P. Boas (born June 26, 1954) is an Americans, American mathematician, professor emeritus of Texas A&M University, where he was ''Professor and Presidential Professor for Teaching Excellence'' in the department of mathematics. Life Boas wa ...

*2010 Brian J. McCartin *2011

Bjorn Poonen Bjorn Mikhail Poonen (born July 27, 1968, in Boston, Massachusetts) is a mathematician, four-time Putnam Competition winner, and a Distinguished Professor in Science in the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ...

*2012 Dennis DeTurck, Herman Gluck,

Daniel Pomerleano Daniel commonly refers to: * Daniel (given name), a masculine given name and a surname * List of people named Daniel * List of people with surname Daniel * Daniel (biblical figure) * Book of Daniel, a biblical apocalypse, "an account of the acti ...

& David Shea Vela-Vick *2013 Robert Ghrist *2014

Ravi Vakil Ravi D. Vakil (born February 22, 1970) is a Canadian-American mathematician working in algebraic geometry. He is the current president of the American Mathematical Society. Education and career Vakil attended high school at Martingrove Collegiat ...

*2015 Dana Mackenzie *2016 Susan Marshall & Donald R. Smith *2017 Mark Schilling *2018 Daniel J. Velleman *2019 Tom Leinster *2020 Vladimir Pozdnyakov, J. Michael Steele *2021 Travis Kowalski * 2022 William Dunham,

Ezra Brown Ezra Abraham "Bud" Brown (born January 22, 1944, in Reading, Pennsylvania) is an American mathematician active in combinatorics, algebraic number theory, elliptic curves, graph theory, expository mathematics and cryptography. He spent most of his ...

& Matthew Crawford * 2023 Kimmo Eriksson, Jonas Eliasson * 2024 Jeffrey WhitmerLaureate 2024
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{{Chauvenet Prize recipients Awards established in 1925 Awards of the Mathematical Association of America

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