Kenneth O. May Prize and Medal in

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 ...

is an award of the

International Commission on the History of Mathematics The International Commission on the History of Mathematics was established in 1971 to promote the study of history of mathematics. Kenneth O. May provided its initial impetus. In 1974, its official journal Historia Mathematica began publishing. Eve ...

(ICHM) "for the encouragement and promotion of the history of mathematics internationally". It was established in 1989 and is named in honor of

Kenneth O. May Kenneth O. May (July 8, 1915, in Portland, Oregon – December 1977, in Toronto) was an American mathematician and historian of mathematics, who developed May's theorem. May was a prime mover behind the International Commission on the History of ...

, the founder of ICHM. Since then, the award is given every four years, at the ICHM congress.

Kenneth O. May Prize winners

Source: (1989-2005
A Brief History of the Kenneth O. May Prize
*2017:

Eberhard Knobloch Eberhard Knobloch (born 6 November 1943, in Görlitz) is a German historian of science and mathematics. Career From 1962 to 1967 Knobloch studied classics and mathematics at the University of Berlin and the Technical University of Berlin, a ...

and

Roshdi Rashed Roshdi Rashed (Arabic: رشدي راشد), born in Cairo in 1936, is a mathematician, philosopher and historian of science, whose work focuses largely on mathematics and physics of the medieval Arab world. His work explores and illuminates the unr ...

*2013: Menso Folkerts and

Jens Høyrup Jens Egede Høyrup, born 1943 in Copenhagen, is a Danish historian of mathematics, specializing in pre-modern and early modern mathematics, ancient Mesopotamian mathematics in particular. He is especially known for his interpretation of what has ...

*2009:

Ivor Grattan-Guinness Ivor Owen Grattan-Guinness (23 June 1941 – 12 December 2014) was a historian of mathematics and logic. Life Grattan-Guinness was born in Bakewell, England; his father was a mathematics teacher and educational administrator. He gained his bac ...

and

Radha Charan Gupta Radha Charan Gupta (born 1935 in GursaraiJhansi, in present-day Uttar Pradesh) is an Indian historian of mathematics. Early life of Radha Charan Gupta Gupta graduated from the University of Lucknow, where he made his bachelor's degree in 1955 ...

BLC Newsletter August 2009
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Henk J. M. Bos Hendrik Jan Maarten "Henk" Bos (born 17 July 1940, Enschede) is a Dutch historian of mathematics. Career Hendrik was a student of Hans Freudenthal and Jerome Ravetz at Utrecht University and in 1973 wrote a thesis "Differentials, higher order di ...

*2001:

Ubiratàn D'Ambrosio Ubiratan D'Ambrosio (December 8, 1932 – May 12, 2021) was a Brazilian mathematics educator and historian of mathematics. Life D'Ambrosio was born in São Paulo, and earned his doctorate from the University of São Paulo in 1963. He retired as ...

and

Lam Lay Yong Lam Lay Yong (maiden name Oon Lay Yong, ; born 1936) is a retired Professor of Mathematics. Academic career From 1988 to 1996 she was Professor at the Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore (NUS). She graduated from the Un ...

*1997:

René Taton René Taton (4 April 1915 – 9 August 2004) was a French author, historian of science The history of science covers the development of science from ancient times to the present. It encompasses all three major branches of science: natura ...

*1993:

Christoph Scriba Christoph J. Scriba (6 October 1929 – 26 July 2013) was a German historian of mathematics. Life and work Scriba was born in Darmstadt and studied at ''Justus-Liebig-University Giessen''. He read James Gregory's early writings on the calcu ...

and

Hans Wussing Hans-Ludwig Wußing (October 15, 1927 in Waldheim – April 26, 2011 in Leipzig) was a German historian of mathematics and science. Life Wussing graduated from high school, and from 1947 to 52 studied mathematics and physics at the Universit ...

*1989:

Dirk Struik Dirk Jan Struik (September 30, 1894 – October 21, 2000) was a Dutch-born American (since 1934) mathematician, historian of mathematics and Marxian theoretician who spent most of his life in the U.S. Life Dirk Jan Struik was born in 1 ...

and

Adolph P. Yushkevich Adolph-Andrei Pavlovich Yushkevich (russian: Адо́льф-Андре́й Па́влович Юшке́вич; 15 July 1906 – 17 July 1993) was a Soviet historian of mathematics, leading expert in medieval mathematics of the East and the work ...

References

A Brief History of the Kenneth O. May Prize in the History of Mathematics

{{DEFAULTSORT:May Prize Mathematics awards History of science awards Awards established in 1989

Kenneth O. May Prize winners

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