The Levi L. Conant Prize is a mathematics prize of the

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, which has been awarded since 2000 for outstanding expository papers published in the ''

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'' or the ''

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'' in the past five years. The award is worth $1,000 and is awarded annually. The award is named after Levi L. Conant (1857–1916), a professor at the

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, 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 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 Alexander Wright (born May 17, 1975) is a German former professional wrestler and professional wrestling promoter. He wrestled professionally in Germany and Japan before signing with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in 1994. He remained a pro ...

for * 2018:

Henry Cohn Henry Cohn is an American mathematician. He is a principal researcher at Microsoft Research and an adjunct professor at MIT. In collaboration with Abhinav Kumar, Stephen D. Miller, Danylo Radchenko, and Maryna Viazovska, he solved the sphere pa ...

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 and Glenn Wightwick for * 2016: Daniel Rothman for * 2015:

Jeffrey Lagarias Jeffrey Clark Lagarias (born November 16, 1949 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States) is a mathematician and professor at the University of Michigan. Education While in high school in 1966, Lagarias studied astronomy at the Summer Science ...

and Zong Chuanming for * 2014: Alex Kontorovich for * 2013: John C. Baez and John Huerta, for * 2012:

Persi Diaconis Persi Warren Diaconis (; born January 31, 1945) is an American mathematician of Greek descent and former professional magician. He is the Mary V. Sunseri Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at Stanford University. He is particularly know ...

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 Bryna Rebekah Kra (born 1966) is an American mathematician and Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor at Northwestern University who is on the board of trustees of the American Mathematical Society and was elected the president of American Mathematical So ...

for * 2009: John Morgan for * 2008: J. Brian Conrey for and Shlomo Hoory, Nathan Linial,

Avi Wigderson Avi Wigderson ( he, אבי ויגדרזון; born 9 September 1956) is an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist. He is the Herbert H. Maass Professor in the school of mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jerse ...

for * 2007: Jeffrey Weeks for * 2006:

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

for * 2005: Allen Knutson, Terence Tao for * 2004:

Noam Elkies Noam David Elkies (born August 25, 1966) is a professor of mathematics at Harvard University. At the age of 26, he became the youngest professor to receive tenure at Harvard. He is also a pianist, chess national master and a chess composer. Ear ...

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,

Peter Sarnak Peter Clive Sarnak (born 18 December 1953) is a South African-born mathematician with dual South-African and American nationalities. Sarnak has been a member of the permanent faculty of the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced St ...

for * 2002:

Elliott Lieb Elliott Hershel Lieb (born July 31, 1932) is an American mathematical physicist and professor of mathematics and physics at Princeton University who specializes in statistical mechanics, condensed matter theory, and functional analysis. Lieb i ...

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 Carl Bernard Pomerance (born 1944 in Joplin, Missouri) is an American number theorist. He attended college at Brown University and later received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1972 with a dissertation proving that any odd perfect number ...

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

References