The Beckenbach Book Prize, formerly known as the Mathematical Association of America Book Prize, is awarded to authors of distinguished, innovative books that have been published by the
Mathematical Association of America (MAA).
The prize, named in honor of
Edwin F. Beckenbach, was established in 1983 and first awarded in 1985. The award is $2500 for the honored author and is awarded on an irregular basis. In January 1985
Charles Robert Hadlock
Charles Robert Hadlock (born April 19, 1947, in Brooklyn, (biographical information from preface to Ph.D. thesis) New York City) is an American applied mathematician, professor emeritus of mathematical sciences, and consultant in risk analysis. In ...
was awarded the MAA Book Prize, which later in 1985 became the Beckenbach Book Prize.
Recipients
The recipients of the Beckenbach Book Prize and their books are:
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* 1985: Charles Robert Hadlock, ''Field Theory and Its Classical Problems''
* 1986: Edward W. Packel, '']The Mathematics of Games and Gambling
''The Mathematics of Games and Gambling'' is a book on probability theory and its application to games of chance. It was written by Edward Packel, and published in 1981 by the Mathematical Association of America as volume 28 of their New Mathemati ...
''
* 1989: Thomas M. Thompson, ''From Error-Correcting Codes through Sphere Packings to Simple Groups''
* 1994: Steven G. Krantz, ''Complex Analysis: The Geometric Viewpoint''
* 1996: Constance Reid
Constance Bowman Reid (January 3, 1918 – October 14, 2010)
was the author of several biographies of mathematicians and popular books about mathematics. She received several awards for mathematical exposition. She was not a mathematician ...
, ''The Search for E.T. Bell, Also Known as John Taine''
* 1998: Sandor Szabo and Sherman K. Stein, '' Algebra and Tiling: Homomorphisms in the Service of Geometry''
* 1999: David M. Bressoud, ''Proofs and Confirmations: The Story of the Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture''
* 2002: Joseph Kirtland, ''Identification Numbers and Check Digits Schemes''
* 2004: James Tanton, ''Solve This: Math Activities for Students and Clubs''
* 2006: Arthur Benjamin
Arthur Leslie Benjamin (18 September 1893 in Sydney – 10 April 1960 in London) was an Australian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher. He is best known as the composer of ''Jamaican Rumba'' (1938) and of the '' Storm Clouds Cantata'', fea ...
and Jennifer Quinn
Jennifer J. Quinn is an American mathematician specializing in combinatorics, and professor of mathematics at the University of Washington Tacoma. She sits on the board of governors of the Mathematical Association of America, and is serving as ...
, '' Proofs That Really Count: the Art of Combinatorial Proof''
* 2007: William P. Berlinghoff and Fernando Q. Gouvêa, ''Math through the Ages: A Gentle History for Teachers and Others''
* 2008: William Dunham, ''Euler: The Master of Us All''
* 2012: Dan Kalman, ''Uncommon Mathematical Excursions: Polynomia and Related Realms''
* 2012: Nathan Carter, ''Visual Group Theory''
* 2014: Judith Grabiner
Judith Victor Grabiner (born October 12, 1938) is an American mathematician and historian of mathematics, who is Flora Sanborn Pitzer Professor Emerita of Mathematics at Pitzer College, one of the Claremont Colleges. Her main interest is in math ...
, ''A Historian Looks Back: The Calculus as Algebra and Selected Writings''
* 2015: Seth Braver, ''Lobachevski Illuminated''
* 2017: Tim Chartier, ''When Life is Linear: From Computer Graphics to Bracketology''
* 2018: Roland van der Veen and Jan van de Craats, ''The Riemann Hypothesis: A Million Dollar Problem''
See also
* Euler Book Prize
* List of mathematics awards
This list of mathematics awards contains articles about notable awards for mathematics. The list is organized by the region and country of the organization that sponsors the award, but awards may be open to mathematicians from around the world. Som ...
References
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Awards of the Mathematical Association of America