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Chauvenet Prize

Index Chauvenet Prize

The Chauvenet Prize is the highest award for mathematical expository writing. [1]

65 relations: Alan Edelman, Andrew Granville, Barry Mazur, Bjorn Poonen, Carl D. Olds, Carl Pomerance, Carolyn S. Gordon, Cornelius Lanczos, David H. Bailey, David Webb (mathematician), Dennis DeTurck, Don Zagier, Donald G. Saari, Dunham Jackson, Edward Burger, Edward J. McShane, François Trèves, G. H. Hardy, Günter M. Ziegler, Gilbert Ames Bliss, Gilbert Strang, Gordon Thomas Whyburn, Guido Weiss, Harold P. Boas, Heinz Bauer, Jack K. Hale, Jacob Korevaar, James H. Wilkinson, Joan Birman, John Stillwell, Jonathan Borwein, Joseph P. LaSalle, Julian Coolidge, Kenneth I. Gross, Kenneth Millett, Lawrence Zalcman, Leon Henkin, Mark Kac, Martin Davis, Mathematical Association of America, Mathematics, Michael Rosen (mathematician), Neil Sloane, Norman Levinson, Paul Halmos, Peter Borwein, Peter Lax, Philip J. Davis, R. H. Bruck, Ravi Vakil, ..., Reuben Hersh, Rhetorical modes, Robert Ghrist, Robert Horton Cameron, Saunders Mac Lane, Shiing-Shen Chern, Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar, Stan Wagon, Stephen Smale, Steven G. Krantz, Theophil Henry Hildebrandt, Thomas Callister Hales, Thomas W. Hawkins Jr., W. B. R. Lickorish, William Chauvenet. Expand index (15 more) »

Alan Edelman

Alan Stuart Edelman (born June 1963) is an American mathematician and computer scientist.

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Andrew Granville

Andrew James Granville (born 7 September 1962) is a British mathematician, working in the field of number theory.

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Barry Mazur

Barry Charles Mazur (born December 19, 1937) is an American mathematician and a Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University.

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Bjorn Poonen

Bjorn Mikhail Poonen is a mathematician, four-time Putnam Competition winner and currently the Claude Shannon Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Carl D. Olds

Carl Douglas Olds (11 May 1912 – 11 November 1979) was a New Zealand-born American mathematician specializing in number theory.

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Carl Pomerance

Carl Bernard Pomerance (born 1944 in Joplin, Missouri) is an American number theorist.

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Carolyn S. Gordon

Carolyn S. Gordon is a mathematician and professor of mathematics at Dartmouth College since 1992.

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Cornelius Lanczos

Cornelius (Cornel) Lanczos (Lánczos Kornél,, born as Kornél Lőwy, until 1906: Löwy (Lőwy) Kornél) was a Jewish Hungarian mathematician and physicist, who was born on February 2, 1893, and died on June 25, 1974.

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David H. Bailey

David Harold Bailey (born 1948) is a mathematician and computer scientist.

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David Webb (mathematician)

David Webb is an American mathematician known for his work on hearing the shape of a drum.

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Dennis DeTurck

Dennis M. DeTurck (born July 15, 1954) is an American mathematician known for his work in partial differential equations and Riemannian geometry, in particular contributions to the theory of the Ricci flow and the prescribed Ricci curvature problem.

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Don Zagier

Don Bernard Zagier (born 29 June 1951) is an American mathematician whose main area of work is number theory.

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Donald G. Saari

Donald Gene Saari (born March 1940) is an American mathematician, the Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Economics and director of the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, Irvine.

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Dunham Jackson

Dunham Jackson (July 24, 1888 in Bridgewater, Massachusetts – November 6, 1946) was a mathematician who worked within approximation theory, notably with trigonometrical and orthogonal polynomials.

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Edward Burger

Edward Bruce Burger (born December 10, 1964)Grondahl, Paul.

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Edward J. McShane

Edward James McShane (May 10, 1904 – June 1, 1989) was an American mathematician noted for his advancements of the calculus of variations, integration theory, stochastic calculus, and exterior ballistics.

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François Trèves

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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.

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Günter M. Ziegler

Günter Matthias Ziegler (born 19 May 1963) is a German mathematician.

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Gilbert Ames Bliss

Gilbert Ames Bliss, (9 May 1876 – 8 May 1951), was an American mathematician, known for his work on the calculus of variations.

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Gilbert Strang

William Gilbert Strang (born November 27, 1934), usually known as simply Gilbert Strang or Gil Strang, is an American mathematician, with contributions to finite element theory, the calculus of variations, wavelet analysis and linear algebra.

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Gordon Thomas Whyburn

Gordon Thomas Whyburn (7 January 1904 Lewisville, Texas – 8 September 1969 Charlottesville, Virginia) was an American mathematician who worked on topology.

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Guido Weiss

Guido L. Weiss (born 29 December 1928 in Trieste) is an American mathematician, working in analysis, especially Fourier analysis and harmonic analysis.

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Harold P. Boas

Harold P. Boas (born June 26, 1954) is an American mathematician.

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Heinz Bauer

Heinz Bauer (31 January 1928 – 15 August 2002) was a German mathematician.

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Jack K. Hale

Jack Kenneth Hale (born 3 October 1928 in Carbon Glow, Kentucky; died 9 December 2009 in Atlanta, Georgia) was an American mathematician working primarily in the field of dynamical systems and functional differential equations.

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Jacob Korevaar

Jacob "Jaap" Korevaar (born 25 January 1923, Lange Ruige Weide) is a Dutch mathematician.

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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.

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Joan Birman

Joan Sylvia Lyttle Birman (born May 30, 1927 in New York CityLarry Riddle. "", Biographies of Women Mathematicians, at Agnes Scott College) is an American mathematician, specializing in braid theory and knot theory.

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John Stillwell

John Colin Stillwell (born 1942) is an Australian mathematician on the faculties of the University of San Francisco and Monash University.

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Jonathan Borwein

Jonathan Michael Borwein (20 May 1951 – 2 August 2016) was a Scottish mathematician who held an appointment as Laureate Professor of mathematics at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

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Joseph P. LaSalle

Joseph Pierre (Joe) LaSalle (born 28 May 1916 in State College, Pennsylvania; died 7 July 1983 in Little Compton, Rhode Island) was an American mathematician specialising in dynamical systems and responsible for important contributions to stability theory, such as LaSalle's invariance principle which bears his name.

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Julian Coolidge

Julian Lowell Coolidge (September 28, 1873 – March 5, 1954) was an American mathematician and a professor and chairman of the Harvard University Mathematics Department.

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Kenneth I. Gross

Kenneth Irwin Gross (14 October 1938 – 10 September 2017) was an American mathematician.

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Kenneth Millett

Kenneth C. Millett (born 1941) is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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Lawrence Zalcman

Lawrence Allen Zalcman is professor emeritus of Mathematics at Bar-Ilan University.

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Leon Henkin

Leon Albert Henkin (April 19, 1921, Brooklyn, New York – November 1, 2006, Oakland, California), Oroville Mercury-Register, November 24, 2006.

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Mark Kac

Mark Kac (Polish: Marek Kac; August 3, 1914 – October 26, 1984) was a Polish American mathematician.

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Martin Davis

Martin David Davis (born March 8, 1928) is an American mathematician, known for his work on Hilbert's tenth problem.

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Mathematical Association of America

The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) is a professional society that focuses on mathematics accessible at the undergraduate level.

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Mathematics

Mathematics (from Greek μάθημα máthēma, "knowledge, study, learning") is the study of such topics as quantity, structure, space, and change.

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Michael Rosen (mathematician)

Michael Ira Rosen (born 7 March 1938 in Brooklyn) is an American mathematician who works on algebraic number theory, arithmetic theory of function fields, and arithmetic algebraic geometry.

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Neil Sloane

Neil James Alexander Sloane (born October 10, 1939) is a British-American mathematician.

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Norman Levinson

Norman Levinson (August 11, 1912 in Lynn, Massachusetts – October 10, 1975 in Boston) was an American mathematician.

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Paul Halmos

Paul Richard Halmos (Halmos Pál; March 3, 1916 – October 2, 2006) was a Hungarian-Jewish-born American mathematician who made fundamental advances in the areas of mathematical logic, probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis (in particular, Hilbert spaces).

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Peter Borwein

Peter Benjamin Borwein (born St. Andrews, Scotland, May 10, 1953) is a Canadian mathematician and a professor at Simon Fraser University.

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Peter Lax

Peter David Lax (born 1 May 1926) is a Hungarian-born American mathematician working in the areas of pure and applied mathematics.

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Philip J. Davis

Philip J. Davis (January 2, 1923 – March 13, 2018) was an American academic applied mathematician.

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R. H. Bruck

Richard Hubert Bruck (December 26, 1914 – 1991) was an American mathematician best known for his work in the field of algebra, especially in its relation to projective geometry and combinatorics.

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Ravi Vakil

Ravi D. Vakil (born February 22, 1970) is a Canadian-American mathematician working in algebraic geometry.

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Reuben Hersh

Reuben Hersh (born 1927) is an American mathematician and academic, best known for his writings on the nature, practice, and social impact of mathematics.

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Rhetorical modes

Rhetorical modes (also known as modes of discourse) describe the variety, conventions, and purposes of the major kinds of language-based communication, particularly writing and speaking.

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Robert Ghrist

Robert W. Ghrist (born 1969) is an American mathematician, known for his work on topological methods in applied mathematics.

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Robert Horton Cameron

Robert Horton Cameron (1908 – 1989, Minnesota) was an American mathematician, who worked on analysis and probability theory.

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Saunders Mac Lane

Saunders Mac Lane (4 August 1909 – 14 April 2005) was an American mathematician who co-founded category theory with Samuel Eilenberg.

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Shiing-Shen Chern

Shiing-Shen Chern (October 26, 1911 – December 3, 2004) was a Chinese-American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to differential geometry and topology.

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Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar

Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar (22 July 1930 – 2 November 2012) was an Indian American mathematician known for his contributions to algebraic geometry.

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Stan Wagon

Stanley Wagon is a Canadian-American mathematician, a professor of mathematics at Macalester College in Minnesota.

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Stephen Smale

Stephen Smale (born July 15, 1930) is an American mathematician from Flint, Michigan.

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Steven G. Krantz

Steven George Krantz (born February 3, 1951) is an American scholar, mathematician, and writer.

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Theophil Henry Hildebrandt

Theophil Henry Hildebrandt (24 July 1888 – 9 October 1980) was an American mathematician who did research on functional analysis and integration theory.

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Thomas Callister Hales

Thomas Callister Hales (born June 4, 1958) is an American mathematician working in the areas of representation theory, discrete geometry, and formal verification.

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Thomas W. Hawkins Jr.

Thomas W. Hawkins Jr. (born 10 January 1938 in Flushing, New York) is an American historian of mathematics.

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W. B. R. Lickorish

William Bernard Raymond Lickorish (born 19 February 1938) is a mathematician.

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William Chauvenet

William Chauvenet (24 May 1820 in Milford, Pennsylvania – 13 December 1870 in St. Paul, Minnesota) was a professor of mathematics, astronomy, navigation, and surveying who was instrumental in the establishment of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, and later the second chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauvenet_Prize

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