The David P. Robbins Prize for papers reporting novel research in algebra, combinatorics, or discrete mathematics is awarded both by the

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

(AMS) and by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). The AMS award recognizes papers with a significant experimental component on a topic which is broadly accessible which provide a simple statement of the problem and clear exposition of the work. Papers eligible for the MAA award are judged on quality of research, clarity of exposition, and accessibility to undergraduates. Both awards consist of $5000 and are awarded once every three years. They are named in the honor of David P. Robbins and were established in 2005 by the members of his family.

Winners (AMS Robbins Prize)

* 2022 : Alin Bostan, Irina Kurkova, and Kilian Raschel for their paper “A human proof of Gessel's lattice path conjecture,” Transactions of the AMS, 369 (2017), 1365-1393. * 2019 : Roger Behrend, Ilse Fischer and Matjaž Konvalinka for their paper “Diagonally and antidiagonally symmetric alternating sign matrices of odd order”, Advances in Mathematics 315:324–365, 2017. * 2016 :

Manuel Kauers Manuel Kauers (born 20 February 1979 in Lahnstein, West Germany) is a German mathematician and computer scientist. He is working on computer algebra and its applications to discrete mathematics. He is currently professor for algebra at Johan ...

Christoph Koutschan Christoph Koutschan is a German mathematician and computer scientist. He is currently with the Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (RICAM) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Education Christoph Koutschan (born 1 ...

and

Doron Zeilberger Doron Zeilberger (דורון ציילברגר, born 2 July 1950 in Haifa, Israel) is an Israeli mathematician, known for his work in combinatorics. Education and career He received his doctorate from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1976, u ...

for their paper "Proof of George Andrews's and David Robbins's q-TSPP conjecture”,

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ''Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America'' (often abbreviated ''PNAS'' or ''PNAS USA'') is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scientific journal. It is the official journal of the National Academy of Sci ...

(PNAS) 108(6) pp. 2196–2199. * 2013 :

Alexander Razborov Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Razborov (russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Разбо́ров; born February 16, 1963), sometimes known as Sasha Razborov, is a Soviet and Russian mathematician and computational theorist. He is ...

for his paper "On the minimal density of triangles in graphs”,

Combinatorics, Probability and Computing ''Combinatorics, Probability and Computing'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal in mathematics published by Cambridge University Press. Its editor-in-chief is Béla Bollobás ( DPMMS and University of Memphis). History The journal was estab ...

17(4):603–618, 2008. * 2010 :

Ileana Streinu Ileana Streinu is a Romanian-American computer scientist and mathematician, the Charles N. Clark Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at Smith College in Massachusetts.

for her paper "Pseudo-triangulations, rigidity and motion planning”,

Discrete & Computational Geometry '' Discrete & Computational Geometry'' is a peer-reviewed mathematics journal published quarterly by Springer. Founded in 1986 by Jacob E. Goodman and Richard M. Pollack, the journal publishes articles on discrete geometry and computational geome ...

34(4):587–635, 2005. * 2007 : Samuel P. Ferguson and

Thomas C. Hales Thomas Callister Hales (born June 4, 1958) is an American mathematician working in the areas of representation theory, discrete geometry, and formal verification. In representation theory he is known for his work on the Langlands program and the p ...

for their paper "A proof of the

Kepler conjecture The Kepler conjecture, named after the 17th-century mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler, is a mathematical theorem about sphere packing in three-dimensional Euclidean space. It states that no arrangement of equally sized spheres filling s ...

Annals of Mathematics The ''Annals of Mathematics'' is a mathematical journal published every two months by Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study. History The journal was established as ''The Analyst'' in 1874 and with Joel E. Hendricks as the ...

, 162:1065–1185, 2005.

Winners (MAA Robbins Prize)

* 2020 :

Aubrey de Grey Aubrey David Nicholas Jasper de Grey (; born 20 April 1963) is an English author and biomedical gerontologist. He is the author of ''The Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging'' (1999) and co-author of ''Ending Aging'' (2007). He is known ...

for his paper "The chromatic number of the plane is at least 5",

Geombinatorics Alexander Soifer is a Russian-born American mathematician and mathematics author. His works include over 400 articles and 13 books. Soifer obtained his Ph.D. in 1973 and has been a professor of mathematics at the University of Colorado since 19 ...

, 28:18-31, 2018. * 2017 :

Robert Hough Robert Hough is a Canadian author. Hough graduated from Queen's University at Kingston in 1985. Following a career as a free-lance magazine journalist, Hough published his first novel titled ''The Final Confession of Mabel Stark'', in 2001. Pu ...

for his paper "Solution of the minimum modulus problem for covering systems",

, 181:361-382, 2015. * 2014 : Frederick V. Henle and James M. Henle for their paper "Squaring the plane”, The American Mathematical Monthly, 115:3–12, 2008. * 2011 :

Mike Paterson Michael Stewart Paterson, is a British computer scientist, who was the director of the Centre for Discrete Mathematics and its Applications (DIMAP) at the University of Warwick until 2007, and chair of the department of computer science in 2005 ...

Yuval Peres Yuval Peres ( he, יובל פרס; born 5 October 1963) is a mathematician known for his research in probability theory, ergodic theory, mathematical analysis, theoretical computer science, and in particular for topics such as fractals and Hausd ...

, Mikkel Thorup,

Peter Winkler Peter Mann Winkler is a research mathematician, author of more than 125 research papers in mathematics and patent holder in a broad range of applications, ranging from cryptography to marine navigation.Information listed oPeter Winkler's homepag ...

, and

Uri Zwick Uri Zwick is an Israeli computer scientist and mathematician known for his work on graph algorithms, in particular on distances in graphs and on the color-coding technique for subgraph isomorphism. With Howard Karloff, he is the namesake of the ...

for their paper
"Overhang”
The American Mathematical Monthly, 116:19–44, 2009, an
"Maximum Overhang”
The American Mathematical Monthly, 116:763–787 2009. * 2008 :

Neil Sloane __NOTOC__ Neil James Alexander Sloane (born October 10, 1939) is a British-American mathematician. His major contributions are in the fields of combinatorics, error-correcting codes, and sphere packing. Sloane is best known for being the creator a ...

for "The on-line encyclopedia of integer sequences”,

Notices of the American Mathematical Society ''Notices of the American Mathematical Society'' is the membership journal of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), published monthly except for the combined June/July issue. The first volume appeared in 1953. Each issue of the magazine since ...

, 50:912–915, 2003.

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Winners (AMS Robbins Prize)

Winners (MAA Robbins Prize)

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