The Chauvenet Prize is the highest award for mathematical expository writing. It consists of a prize of $1,000 and a certificate, and is awarded yearly by the

Mathematical Association of America The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) is a professional society that focuses on mathematics accessible at the undergraduate level. Members include university, college, and high school teachers; graduate and undergraduate students; pure a ...

in recognition of an outstanding expository article on a mathematical topic. The prize is named in honor of William Chauvenet and was established through a gift from

J. L. Coolidge Julian Lowell Coolidge (September 28, 1873 – March 5, 1954) was an American mathematician, historian and a professor and chairman of the Harvard University Mathematics Department. Biography Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, he graduated from Ha ...

in 1925. The Chauvenet Prize was the first award established by the Mathematical Association of America. A gift from MAA president Walter B. Ford in 1928 allowed the award to be given every 3 years instead of the originally planned 5 years.

Winners

*1925

G. A. Bliss Gilbert Ames Bliss, (9 May 1876 – 8 May 1951), was an American mathematician, known for his work on the calculus of variations. Life Bliss grew up in a Chicago family that eventually became affluent; in 1907, his father became president of the ...

*1929

T. H. Hildebrandt T is the twentieth letter of the Latin alphabet. (For the same letterform in the Cyrillic and Greek alphabets, see Te and Tau respectively). T may also refer to: Codes and units * T, Tera- as in one trillion * T, the symbol for "True" in ...

*1932 G. H. Hardy *1935

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. He is known for Jackson's inequality. He ...

*1938 G. T. Whyburn *1941 Saunders Mac Lane *1944 R. H. Cameron *1947 Paul Halmos *1950 Mark Kac *1953 E. J. McShane *1956 Richard H. Bruck *1960 Cornelius Lanczos *1963 Philip J. Davis *1964 Leon Henkin *1965

Jack K. Hale Jack Kenneth Hale (3 October 1928 – 9 December 2009) was an American mathematician working primarily in the field of dynamical systems and functional differential equations. Biography Jack Hale defended his Ph.D. thesis "On the Asymptotic Beha ...

Joseph P. LaSalle Joseph Pierre 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 theo ...

*1967 Guido Weiss *1968 Mark Kac *1970

Shiing Shen Chern Shiing-Shen Chern (; , ; October 28, 1911 – December 3, 2004) was a Chinese-American mathematician and poet. He made fundamental contributions to differential geometry and topology. He has been called the "father of modern differential geome ...

*1971 Norman Levinson *1972

Jean Francois Treves Jean may refer to: People * Jean (female given name) * Jean (male given name) * Jean (surname) Fictional characters * Jean Grey, a Marvel Comics character * Jean Valjean, fictional character in novel ''Les Misérables'' and its adaptations * Jean ...

*1973

Carl D. Olds Carl Douglas Olds (11 May 1912 – 11 November 1979) was a New Zealand-born American mathematician specializing in number theory. Biography Carl Olds was born in 1912 in Wanganui, New Zealand. He was an undergraduate student at Stanford Universi ...

*1974 Peter D. Lax *1975

Martin Davis Martin Davis may refer to: * Martin Davis (Australian footballer) (born 1936), Australian rules footballer * Martin Davis (Jamaican footballer) (born 1996), Jamaican footballer * Martin Davis (mathematician) Martin David Davis (March 8, 1928 � ...

and Reuben Hersh *1976

Lawrence Zalcman Lawrence Allen Zalcman (June 9, 1943 – May 31, 2022) was professor emeritus of Mathematics at Bar-Ilan University. His research concerns Complex analysis and potential theory, and their relations with approximation theory, harmonic analysis, in ...

*1977 W. Gilbert Strang *1978 Shreeram S. Abhyankar *1979

Neil J. A. Sloane __NOTOC__ Neil James Alexander Sloane (born October 10, 1939) is a British-American mathematician. His major contributions are in the fields of combinatorics, error-correcting codes, and sphere packing. Sloane is best known for being the creator a ...

*1980

Heinz Bauer Heinz Bauer (31 January 1928 – 15 August 2002) was a German mathematician. Bauer studied at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and received his PhD there in 1953 under the supervision of Otto Haupt and finished his habilitation in 1956, b ...

*1981 Kenneth I. Gross *1982 No award given. *1983 No award given. *1984 R. Arthur Knoebel *1985 Carl Pomerance *1986 George Miel *1987

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. Edu ...

*1988

Steve Smale Stephen Smale (born July 15, 1930) is an American mathematician, known for his research in topology, dynamical systems and mathematical economics. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1966 and spent more than three decades on the mathematics facul ...

*1989 Jacob Korevaar *1990

David Allen Hoffman David Allen Hoffman is an American mathematician whose research concerns differential geometry. He is an adjunct professor at Stanford University. In 1985, together with William Meeks, he proved that Costa's surface was embedded. He is a fellow ...

*1991

W. B. Raymond Lickorish William Bernard Raymond Lickorish (born 19 February 1938) is a mathematician. He is emeritus professor of geometric topology in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge, and also an emeritus fellow ...

and Kenneth C. Millett *1992 Steven G. Krantz *1993 David H. Bailey,

Jonathan M. 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. He was a close associate of David H. Bailey, and they ...

and

Peter B. Borwein Peter Benjamin Borwein (born St. Andrews, Scotland, May 10, 1953 – 23 August 2020) was a Canadian mathematician and a professor at Simon Fraser University. He is known as a co-author of the paper which presented the Bailey–Borwein– ...

*1994

Barry Mazur Barry Charles Mazur (; born December 19, 1937) is an American mathematician and the Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University. His contributions to mathematics include his contributions to Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in ...

*1995

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

*1996 Joan Birman *1997 Tom Hawkins *1998 Alan Edelman and Eric Kostlan *1999 Michael I. Rosen *2000 Don Zagier *2001

Carolyn S. Gordon Carolyn S. Gordon (born 1950) is a mathematician and Benjamin Cheney Professor of Mathematics at Dartmouth College. She is most well known for giving a negative answer to the question "Can you hear the shape of a drum?" in her work with David Webb ...

and

David L. Webb David Webb is an American mathematician known for his work on hearing the shape of a drum. Webb attended Cornell University, where he received his PhD in 1983 under the supervision of Kenneth Stephen Brown. He is currently a professor of mathema ...

*2002 Ellen Gethner, Stan Wagon, and Brian Wick *2003 Thomas C. Hales *2004 Edward B. Burger *2005 John Stillwell *2006 Florian Pfender & Günter M. Ziegler *2007

Andrew J. Simoson Andrew is the English form of a given name common in many countries. In the 1990s, it was among the top ten most popular names given to boys in English-speaking countries. "Andrew" is frequently shortened to "Andy" or "Drew". The word is derived ...

*2008 Andrew Granville *2009

Harold P. Boas Harold P. Boas (born June 26, 1954) is an American mathematician. Life Boas was born in Evanston, Illinois, United States. He is the son of two noted mathematicians, Ralph P. Boas, Jr and Mary L. Boas. Education He received his A.B. and S.M. de ...

*2010

Brian J. McCartin Brian (sometimes spelled Bryan in English) is a male given name of Irish and Breton origin, as well as a surname of Occitan origin. It is common in the English-speaking world. It is possible that the name is derived from an Old Celtic word meani ...

*2011 Bjorn Poonen *2012

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 ...

Herman Gluck Herman may refer to: People * Herman (name), list of people with this name * Saint Herman (disambiguation) * Peter Noone (born 1947), known by the mononym Herman Places in the United States * Herman, Arkansas * Herman, Michigan * Herman, Minnes ...

, Daniel Pomerleano & David Shea Vela-Vick *2013

Robert Ghrist Robert W. Ghrist (born 1969) is an American mathematician, known for his work on topological methods in applied mathematics. Life and Work Ghrist received his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Toledo in 1991, and ...

*2014 Ravi Vakil *2015

Dana Mackenzie Dana may refer to: People Given name * Dana (given name) Surname * Dana (surname) * Dana family of Cambridge, Massachusetts ** James Dwight Dana (1813–1895), scientist, zoological author abbreviation Dana Nickname or stage name * D ...

*2016 Susan Marshall &

Donald R. Smith Donald R. Smith (November 13, 1926 – February 4, 1982) was an American politician. Smith graduated from York High School in Elmhurst, Illinois and then joined the United States Navy in 1944 during World War II and served until 1946. He went ...

*2017 Mark Schilling *2018

Daniel J. Velleman Daniel is a masculine given name and a surname of Hebrew origin. It means "God is my judge"Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 68. (cf. Gabriel—"God is my strength"), ...

*2019 Tom Leinster *2020 Vladimir Pozdnyakov,

J. Michael Steele John Michael Steele is C.F. Koo Professor of Statistics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and he was previously affiliated with Stanford University, Columbia University and Princeton University. Steele was elected the 2009 p ...

*2021

Travis Kowalski Travis may refer to: People and fictional characters * Travis (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Travis (surname), a list of people Places in the United States * Travis, Staten Island, a neighborhood * Travis Air Force Base ...

* 2022 William Dunham,

Ezra Brown Ezra Abraham "Bud" Brown (born January 22, 1944, in Reading, Pennsylvania) is an American mathematician active in combinatorics, algebraic number theory, elliptic curves, graph theory, expository mathematics and cryptography. He spent most of his ...

& Matthew Crawford Source: Mathematical Association of America

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{{Chauvenet Prize recipients Awards established in 1925 Awards of the Mathematical Association of America

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