The Levi L. Conant Prize is a mathematics prize of the American Mathematical Society, which has been awarded since 2000 for outstanding expository papers published in the '' Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society'' or the '' Notices of the American Mathematical Society'' in the past five years. The award is worth $1,000 and is awarded annually. The award is named after

Levi L. Conant Levi Leonard Conant (March 3, 1857, Littleton, Massachusetts – October 11, 1916, Worcester, Massachusetts) was an American mathematician specializing in trigonometry. Education and career He attended Phillips Academy, Andover and Dartmouth C ...

(1857–1916), a professor at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, known as the author of anthropological mathematics book "The number concept" (1896). He left the AMS $10,000 for the foundation of the award bearing his name.

Winners

Source
American Mathematical Society
* 2023: Joshua Greene for * 2022: for * 2021: Dan Margalit for the article "The Mathematics of Joan Birman," ''Notices of the AMS,'' 66 (2019), 341-353 * 2020:

Amie Wilkinson Amie Wilkinson (born 1968) is an American mathematician and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago. Her research topics include smooth dynamical systems, ergodic theory, chaos theory, and semisimple Lie groups. Wilkinson, in collab ...

for the article "What are Lyapunov exponents, and why are they interesting?", ''Bulletin of the AMS,'' Volume 54, January 2017, Pages 79–105 * 2019: Alex Wright for * 2018: Henry Cohn for
AMS Prize announcements
* 2017: David H. Bailey,

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

Andrew Mattingly 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 derive ...

and

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for * 2016:

Daniel Rothman Daniel H. Rothman is an American geophysicist and Professor of Geophysics in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Having made significant contributions to statistical ph ...

for * 2015: Jeffrey Lagarias and

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for * 2014:

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for * 2013:

John C. Baez John Carlos Baez (; born June 12, 1961) is an American mathematical physics, mathematical physicist and a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) in Riverside, California, Riverside, California. He has worked o ...

and

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, for * 2012: Persi Diaconis for * 2011:

David Vogan David Alexander Vogan, Jr. (born September 8, 1954) is a mathematician at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who works on unitary representations of simple Lie groups. While studying at the University of Chicago, he became a Putnam Fellow ...

for * 2010: Bryna Kra for * 2009: John Morgan for * 2008:

J. Brian Conrey John Brian Conrey (23 June 1955) is an American mathematician and the executive director of the American Institute of Mathematics. His research interests are in number theory, specifically analysis of L-functions and the Riemann zeta function. ...

for and

Shlomo Hoory Shlomo (, Polish: Szlomo, Szlama, Szlamek, Szloma), meaning "peaceable", is a common Hebrew male given name. The following individuals are often referred to only by the name Shlomo: * Solomon, king of ancient Israel, according to various religio ...

Nathan Linial Nathan (Nati) Linial (born 1953 in Haifa, Israel) is an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist, a professor in the Rachel and Selim Benin School of Computer Science and Engineering at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and an ISI highly c ...

, Avi Wigderson for * 2007: Jeffrey Weeks for * 2006:

Ronald Solomon Ronald "Ron“ Mark Solomon (b. 15 December 1948Mathematicians who classified finite groups

for * 2005:

Allen Knutson Allen Ivar Knutson is an American mathematician who is a professor of mathematics at Cornell University. Education Knutson completed his undergraduate studies at the California Institute of Technology and received a Ph.D. from the Massachusett ...

Terence Tao Terence Chi-Shen Tao (; born 17 July 1975) is an Australian-American mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he holds the James and Carol Collins chair. His research includes ...

for * 2004: Noam Elkies for "Lattices, Linear Codes, and Invariants." ''Notices of the AMS'', Vol. 47, 2000, Part 1: No. 10, pg. 1238–45; Part 2: No. 11, pg. 1382–91. * 2003:

Nicholas Katz Nicholas Michael Katz (born December 7, 1943) is an American mathematician, working in arithmetic geometry, particularly on ''p''-adic methods, monodromy and moduli problems, and number theory. He is currently a professor of Mathematics at P ...

, Peter Sarnak for * 2002: Elliott Lieb and

Jakob Yngvason Jakob Yngvason (born 23 November 1945) is an Icelandic/Austrian physicist and emeritus professor of mathematical physics at the University of Vienna. He has made important contributions to local quantum field theory, thermodynamics, and the quant ...

for * 2001: Carl Pomerance for {{cite journal , title=A Tale of Two Sieves , journal=Notices of the AMS , volume=43 , issue=12 , year=1996 , pages=1473–1485

References

The original article was a translation of the corresponding German article.
The prize website
Awards of the American Mathematical Society

Winners

See also

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