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 was established in 1983 and first awarded in 1985. The award is $2500 for the honored author and is awarded on an irregular basis.

Recipients

The recipients of the Beckenbach Book Prize and their books are: * 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 Mathemat ...

'' * 1989: Thomas M. Thompson, ''From Error-Correcting Codes through Sphere Packings to Simple Groups'' * 1994:

Steven G. Krantz Steven George Krantz (born February 3, 1951) is an American scholar, mathematician, and writer. He has authored more than 350 research papers and published more than 150 books. Additionally, Krantz has edited journals such as the ''Notices of th ...

, ''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 but ...

, ''The Search for E.T. Bell, Also Known as John Taine'' * 1998: Sandor Szabo and

Sherman K. Stein Sherman Kopald Stein (born August 11, 1926) is an American mathematician and an author of mathematics textbooks. He is a professor emeritus at the University of California, Davis. His writings have won the Paul R. Halmos – Lester R. Ford Award, L ...

, '' Algebra and Tiling: Homomorphisms in the Service of Geometry'' * 1999:

David M. Bressoud David Marius Bressoud (born March 27, 1950 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) is an American mathematician who works in number theory, combinatorics, and special functions. As of 2019 he is DeWitt Wallace Professor of Mathematics at Macalester College, ...

, ''Proofs and Confirmations: The Story of the Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture'' * 2002: Joseph Kirtland, ''Identification Numbers and Check Digits Schemes'' * 2004:

James Tanton James Stuart Tanton (born August 1, 1966) is a mathematician and math educator. He is a winner of the Kidder Faculty Prize for his teaching at The St. Mark’s Math Institute, scholar at the Mathematical Association of America, author of over ten ...

, ''Solve This: Math Activities for Students and Clubs'' * 2006: Arthur Benjamin 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 Fernando Quadros Gouvêa is a Brazilian number theorist and historian of mathematics who won the Lester R. Ford Award of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) in 1995 for his exposition of Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. He also w ...

, ''Math through the Ages: A Gentle History for Teachers and Others'' * 2008: William Dunham, ''Euler: The Master of Us All'' * 2012:

Dan Kalman Daniel "Dan" Simon Kalman (born March 21, 1952 in Oakland, California) is an American mathematician and winner of nine awards for expository writing in mathematics. (Several article titles have links to online pdf's.) Education and career After ...

, ''Uncommon Mathematical Excursions: Polynomia and Related Realm'' * 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 mathema ...

, ''A Historian Looks Back: The Calculus as Algebra and Selected Writings'' * 2015: Seth Braver, ''Lobachevski Illuminated'' * 2017:

Tim Chartier Timothy P. Chartier (born 1969) is Joseph R. Morton Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at Davidson College, known for his expertise in sports analytics and bracketology, for his popular mathematics books, and for the "mime-matics" show ...

, ''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'' * 2021: Nathan Carter, ''Introduction to the Mathematics of Computer Graphics''

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