The Carl B. Allendoerfer Award is presented annually by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) for "expository excellence published in Mathematics Magazine."[1] it is named after mathematician Carl B. Allendoerfer who was president of the MAA 1959–60.[2]
Recipients
editRecipients of the Carl B. Allendoerfer Award have included:[3][4]
| Recipient | Year | Article |
|---|---|---|
| David Hunter and Chisondi Warioba | 2022 | Segregation Surfaces |
| Beth Malmskog and Kathryn Haymaker | 2020 | What (Quilting) Circles Can Be Squared? |
| William Dunham | 2019 | The Early (and Peculiar) History of the Möbius Function |
| Jordan Bell and Viktor Blåsjö | 2019 | Pietro Mengoli’s 1650 Proof that the Harmonic Series Diverges |
| Fumiko Futamura and Robert Lehr | 2018 | A New Perspective on Finding the Viewpoint |
| Brian Conrey, James Gabbard, Katie Grant, Andrew Liu, and Kent Morrison | 2017 | Intransitive Dice |
| Vladimir Pozdnyakov and J. Michael Steele | 2017 | Buses, Bullies, and Bijections |
| Julia Barnes, Clinton Curry, Elizabeth Russell, and Lisbeth Schaubroeck | 2016 | Emerging Julia Sets |
| Irl Bivens and Ben Klein | 2016 | The Median Value of a Continuous Function |
| Daniel Heath | 2015 | Straightedge and Compass Constructions in Spherical Geometry |
| Andrew Beveridge and Stan Wagon | 2015 | The Sorting Hat Goes to College |
| Sally Cockburn and Joshua Lesperance | 2014 | Deranged Socks |
| Susan Marshall and Donald Smith | 2014 | Feedback, Control, and Distribution of Prime Numbers |
| Khristo N. Boyadzhiev | 2013 | Close Encounters with the Stirling Numbers of the Second Kind |
| Adrian Rice and Ezra A. Brown | 2013 | Why Ellipses Are Not Elliptic Curves |
| P. Mark Kayll | 2012 | Integrals Don't Have Anything to Do with Discrete Math, Do They? |
| John A. Adam | 2012 | Blood Vessel Branching: Beyond the Standard Calculus Problem |
| Curtis D. Bennett, Blake Mellor, and Patrick Shanahan | 2011 | Drawing a Triangle on the Thurston Model of Hyperbolic Space |
| Gene Abrams and Jessica Sklar | 2011 | The Graph Menagerie: Abstract Algebra and the Mad Veterinarian |
| David Speyer and Bernd Sturmfels | 2010 | Tropical Mathematics |
| Ezra Brown and Keith Mellinger | 2010 | Kirkman's Schoolgirls Wearing Hats and Walking Through Fields of Numbers |
| Jeff Suzuki | 2009 | A Brief History of Impossibility |
| Vesna Stojanoska and Orlin Stoytchev | 2009 | Touching the Z2 in Three-Dimensional Rotations |
| Chris Christensen | 2009 | Polish Mathematicians Finding Patterns in Enigma Messages |
| Eugene Boman, Richard Brazier, and Derek Seiple | 2008 | Mom! There's an Astroid in My Closet! |
| Saul Stahl | 2008 | The Evolution of the Normal Distribution |
| Carl V. Lutzer | 2007 | Hammer Juggling, Rotational Instability, and Eigenvalues |
| Jeff Suzuki | 2006 | The Lost Calculus (1637-1670): Tangency and Optimization without Limits |
| Robb T. Koether and John K. Osinach, Jr. | 2006 | Outwitting the Lying Oracle |
| Roger B. Eggleton and William P. Galvin | 2005 | Upper Bounds on the Sum of Principal Divisors of an Integer |
| Charles I. Delman and Gregory Galperin | 2004 | A Tale of Three Circles |
| Ezra Brown | 2003 | The Many Names of (7,3,1) |
| Dan Kalman | 2003 | Doubly Recursive Multivariate Automatic Differentiation |
| Mark McKinzie and Curtis Tuckey | 2002 | Higher Trigonometry, Hyperreal Numbers, and Euler's Analysis of Infinities |
| James N. Brawner | 2001 | Dinner, Dancing, and Tennis, Anyone? |
| Raphael Falk Jones and Janice L. Pearce | 2001 | A Postmodern View of Fractions and the Reciprocals of Fermat Primes |
| Donald Teets and Karen Whitehead | 2000 | The Discovery of Ceres: How Gauss Became Famous |
| Donald G. Saari and Fabrice Valognes | 1999 | Geometry, Voting, and Paradoxes |
| Victor Klee and John R. Reay | 1999 | A Surprising but Easily Proved Geometric Decomposition Theorem |
| Dan Kalman, Robert Mena, and Shahriar Shahriari | 1998 | Variations on an Irrational Theme-Geometry, Dynamics, Algebra |
| Lin Tan | 1997 | The Group of Rational Points on the Unit Circle |
| Colm Mulcahy | 1997 | Plotting and Scheming with Wavelets |
| Daniel J. Velleman and Gregory S. Call | 1996 | Permutations and Combination Locks |
| Judith Grabiner | 1996 | Descartes and Problem-Solving |
| Tristan Needham | 1995 | The Geometry of Harmonic Functions |
| Lee Badgett | 1995 | Lazzarini's Lucky Approximation of pi |
| Joan P. Hutchinson | 1994 | Coloring Ordinary Maps, Maps of Empires, and Maps of the Moon |
| Xun-Cheng Huang | 1993 | From Intermediate Value Theorem to Chaos |
| David Logothetti | 1992 | Cube Slices, Pictorial Triangles, and Probability |
| Israel Kleiner | 1992 | Rigor and Proof in Mathematics: A Historical Perspective |
| Gulbank D. Chakerian | 1992 | Cube Slices, Pictorial Triangles, and Probability |
| Ranjan Roy | 1991 | The Discovery of the Series Formula for π by Leibniz, Gregory, and Nilakantha |
| Ronald L. Graham | 1990 | |
| Martin Gardner | 1990 | |
| Fan Chung | 1990 | Steiner Trees on a Checkerboard |
| Thomas Archibald | 1990 | Connectivity and Smoke-Rings: Green's Second Identity in Its First Fifty Years |
| Kenneth C. Millett | 1989 | |
| W.B. Raymond Lickorish | 1989 | The New Polynomial Invariants of Knots and Links |
| Judith Grabiner | 1989 | The Centrality of Mathematics in the History of Western Thought |
| Steven Galovich | 1988 | Products of Sines and Cosines |
| Bart Braden | 1988 | Pólya's Geometric Picture of Complex Contour Integrals |
| Paul Zorn | 1987 | The Bieberbach Conjecture |
| Israel Kleiner | 1987 | The Evolution of Group Theory: A Brief Survey |
| Saul Stahl | 1986 | The Other Map Coloring Theorem |
| Bart Braden | 1986 | Design of an Oscillating Sprinkler |
| Philip D. Straffin, Jr. | 1985 | Parliamentary Coalitions: A Tour of Models |
| Bernard Grofman | 1985 | |
| Frederick S. Gass | 1985 | Constructive Ordinal Notation Systems |
| Judith Grabiner | 1984 | The Changing Concept of Change: The Derivative from Fermat to Weierstrass |
| Clifford Wagner | 1983 | A Generic Approach to Iterative Methods |
| Donald Koehler | 1983 | Mathematics and Literature |
| Marjorie Senechal | 1982 | Which Tetrahedra Fill Space? |
| J. Ian Richards | 1982 | Continued Fractions without Tears |
| Donald E. Sanderson | 1981 | Advanced Plane Topology from an Elementary Standpoint |
| Stephen B. Maurer | 1981 | The King Chicken Theorems |
| Ernst Snapper | 1980 | The Three Crises in Mathematics: Logicism, Intuitionism, and Formalism |
| Victor Klee | 1980 | Some Unsolved Problems in Plane Geometry |
| Doris Schattschneider | 1979 | Tiling the Plane with Congruent Pentagons |
| Bruce C. Berndt | 1979 | Ramanujan's Notebooks |
| David A. Smith | 1978 | Human Population Growth: Stability or Explosion? |
| Geoffrey C. Shephard | 1978 | Tilings by Regular Polygons |
| Branko Grünbaum | 1978 | |
| B.L. van der Waerden | 1977 | Hamilton's Discovery of Quaternions |
| Joseph A. Gallian | 1977 | The Search for Finite Simple Groups |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Allendoerfer Award, MAA, retrieved 2014-04-30.
- ^ Carl Barnett Allendoerfer, 1959-1960 MAA President, MAA, retrieved 2014-04-30.
- ^ "Carl B. Allendoerfer Awards | Mathematical Association of America". www.maa.org. Retrieved 2016-08-04.
- ^ Jaguszewski, Janice M. (1997). Recognizing excellence in the mathematical sciences : an international compilation of awards, prizes, and recipients. Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press. ISBN 0-7623-0235-6. OCLC 37513025.