__NOTOC__ The Albert Leon Whiteman Memorial Prize is awarded 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, ...

for notable exposition and exceptional scholarship in the

history of mathematics The history of mathematics deals with the origin of discoveries in mathematics and the mathematical methods and notation of the past. Before the modern age and the worldwide spread of knowledge, written examples of new mathematical developments ...

. The prize was endowed in 1998 with funds provided by Sally Whiteman in memory of her late husband Albert Leon Whiteman. Originally it was awarded every 4 years with the first prized handed out in 2001. Since 2009 the prize is awarded every 3 years and carries a prize money of $5000.

Past recipients

*2001 Thomas Hawkins *2005

Harold M. Edwards Harold Mortimer Edwards, Jr. (August 6, 1936 – November 10, 2020) was an American mathematician working in number theory, abstract algebra, algebra, and the history and philosophy of mathematics. He was one of the co-founding editors, with Bru ...

*2009

Jeremy Gray Jeremy John Gray (born 25 April 1947) is an English mathematician primarily interested in the history of mathematics. Biography Gray studied mathematics at Oxford University from 1966 to 1969, and then at Warwick University, obtaining his Ph.D ...

*2012

Joseph Dauben Joseph Warren Dauben (born 29 December 1944, Santa Monica) is a Herbert H. Lehman Distinguished Professor of History at the CUNY Graduate Center, Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He obtained his PhD from Harvard University. H ...

*2015

Umberto Bottazzini Umberto Bottazzini (born 1947 in Viadana, Lombardy) is an Italian historian of mathematics, writing on the history of mathematics and the foundations of mathematics. Biography Bottazzini graduated in 1973 with the ''Laurea'' degree from the Univer ...

*2018

Karen Parshall Karen Hunger Parshall (born 1955, Virginia; ''née'' Karen Virginia Hunger) is an American historian of mathematics. She is the Commonwealth Professor of History and Mathematics at the University of Virginia with a joint appointment in the Corcora ...

*2021

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 mathema ...

Laureate 2021
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References

External links

''Albert Leon Whiteman Memorial Prize''
on the website of the

{{DEFAULTSORT:Whiteman Memorial Prize Awards of the American Mathematical Society Triennial events History of mathematics Awards established in 2001 American history awards 2001 establishments in the United States

Past recipients

See also

References

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