The Paul R. Halmos – Lester R. Ford Award (formerly known as the Lester R. Ford Award) is a $1,000 prize given annually by the

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for authors of articles of expository excellence published in ''

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'' or '' Mathematics Magazine''.Paul R. Halmos – Lester R. Ford Awards
on the website of the Mathematical Association of America. It is awarded to at most four authors each year. The prize was established in 1964 as the Lester R. Ford Award to honor the contributions of mathematician and former MAA president Lester R. Ford. In 2012 the award was renamed the Paul R. Halmos – Lester R. Ford Award to honor the contributions of former ''The American Mathematical Monthly'' editor

Paul R. Halmos Paul Richard Halmos ( hu, Halmos Pál; March 3, 1916 – October 2, 2006) was a Hungarian-born American mathematician and statistician who made fundamental advances in the areas of mathematical logic, probability theory, statistics, operator ...

and the support of the Halmos family for the awards. Halmos himself received the award in 1971 and 1977.

Recipients

The recipients of the Paul R. Halmos – Lester R. Ford Award are: * 2022: William Dunham * 2022: Jan E. Holly * 2022: Dominic Klyve and Erik R. Tou * 2022: David Lowry-Duda and Miles H. Wheeler * 2021: J. H. Conway, M. S. Paterson, and Moscow (U.S.S.R.) * 2021: Brian S. Thomson * 2021: Zhaodong Cai, Matthew Faust, A. J. Hildebrand, Junxian Li, and Yuan Zhang * 2021: Ben Blum-Smith and Japheth Wood * 2020: Daniel Ullman and Daniel Velleman * 2020: Colin Adams,

Allison Henrich Allison Henrich (born 1980) is an American mathematician specializing in knot theory and also interested in undergraduate-level mathematics research mentorship. She is a professor of mathematics at Seattle University. Education and career Henrich ...

, Kate Kearney, and Nicholas Scoville * 2020:

John B. Little John B. Little may refer to: * John B. Little (radiobiologist), American radiobiologist * John B. Little (mathematician), American mathematician and historian of mathematics {{hndis ...

* 2020: Balázs Gerencsér and Viktor Harangi * 2019: Adrian Rice * 2019: Jonathan Borwein and Robert M. Corless * 2019: Andrew Granville * 2019: Kenneth S. Williams * 2018: Paul E. Becker, Martin Derka, Sheridan Houghten and Jennifer Ulrich * 2018:

Maria Deijfen Maria Deijfen (born 1975) is a Swedish mathematician known for her research on random graphs and stochastic processes on graphs, including the Reed–Frost model of epidemics. She is a professor of mathematics at Stockholm University. Educatio ...

, Alexander E. Holroyd and James B. Martin * 2018: Francis E. Su * 2018: Michael Barnsley and Andrew Vince * 2017: Deborah Kent and David Muraki * 2017: Adrien Kassel and David B. Wilson * 2017:

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 ...

* 2017:

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 ...

* 2016: Zhiqin Lu and Julie Rowlett * 2016: Manya Raman-Sundström * 2016: Kenneth S. Williams * 2016: Alex Chin, Gary Gordon, Kellie MacPhee, and Charles Vincent * 2015: Mario Ponce and Patricio Santibanez * 2015: Erwan Brugallé and Kristin Shaw * 2015: Daniel Velleman * 2015:

and Louis H Kauffman * 2014: Will Traves * 2014: Susan H. Marshall and Alexander R. Perlis * 2014: Jacques Lévy Véhel and Franklin Mendivil * 2014: Tadashi Tokieda * 2013: Robert T. Jantzen and Klaus Volpert * 2013: Lionel Levine and

Katherine E. Stange Katherine E. Stange is a Canadian-American mathematician and an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is a number theorist specializing in topics in arithmetic geometry. Education and career Stange earned h ...

* 2013:

Dimitris Koukoulopoulos Dimitris Koukoulopoulos (born 1984) is a Greek mathematician working in analytic number theory. He is a professor at the University of Montreal. In 2019, in joint work with James Maynard, he proved the Duffin-Schaeffer conjecture. He was an in ...

and Johann Thiel * 2013: Dan Kalman and Mark McKinzie The recipients of the Lester R. Ford Award are: * 2012: David A. Cox * 2012:

Graham Everest Graham Robert Everest (14 December 1957 in Southwick, West Sussex – 30 July 2010) was a British mathematician working on arithmetic dynamics and Recurrence relation, recursive equations in number theory. Life Everest studied at Bedford College ...

and Tom Ward * 2012: Peter Sarnak * 2012: Ravi Vakil * 2011: Aaron Abrams and

Skip Garibaldi Skip Garibaldi is an American mathematician doing research on algebraic groups and especially exceptional groups. Biography Garibaldi dropped out of high school to attend Purdue University, where he earned B.S. degrees in mathematics and in co ...

* 2011: Alexander Borisov, Mark Dickinson, and Stuart Hastings * 2011: James T. Smith * 2011: Mark Conger and Jason Howald * 2011: Marvin Jay Greenberg * 2010: Bob Palais, Richard Palais, and Stephen Rodi * 2010: Jerzy Kocik and Andrzej Solecki * 2010: Judith Grabiner * 2010: Mike Paterson and Uri Zwick * 2010: Tom M. Apostol and

Mamikon A. Mnatsakanian Mamikon A. Mnatsakanian (1942-2021) ( hy, Մամիկոն Մնացականյան) was an Armenian physicist. In 1959, he discovered a new proof of the Pythagorean theorem. He received a Ph.D. in physics in 1969 from Yerevan State University, where ...

* 2009: Andrew Bashelor, Amy Ksir, and Will Traves * 2009: Andrew Granville * 2009: Dan Kalman * 2009: Michel Balinski * 2008: Andrew Cohen and Tanya Leise * 2008: David Auckly * 2008: Katherine Socha * 2008: Thomas C. Hales * 2008: Tom M. Apostol and

* 2007: Andrew Granville and Greg Martin * 2007:

* 2007: Jeffrey C. Lagarias * 2007: Lluís Bibiloni, Jaume Paradís, and Pelegrí Viader * 2007: Michael J. Mossinghoff * 2006: Edward B. Burger * 2006: Ibetsam Bajunaid, Joel M. Cohen, Flavia Colonna, and David Singman * 2006: Karl Dilcher and Kenneth B. Stolarsky * 2006: Viktor Blåsjö * 2006: William Dunham * 2005: Alan Edelman and Gilbert Strang * 2005: Henry Cohn * 2005: Judith Grabiner * 2005: Steven Finch and John Wetzel * 2005:

Tom Apostol Tom Mike Apostol (August 20, 1923 – May 8, 2016) was an American analytic number theorist and professor at the California Institute of Technology, best known as the author of widely used mathematical textbooks. Life and career Apostol was bor ...

and

Mamikon Mnatsakanian Mamikon A. Mnatsakanian (1942-2021) ( hy, Մամիկոն Մնացականյան) was an Armenian physicist. In 1959, he discovered a new proof of the Pythagorean theorem. He received a Ph.D. in physics in 1969 from Yerevan State University, where ...

* 2004: Charles Livingston * 2004: Noam Elkies * 2004: R. Michael Range * 2004: Ruediger Thiele * 2003:

Eleanor Robson Eleanor Robson, (born 1969) is a British Assyriologist and academic. She is Professor of Ancient Middle Eastern History at University College London. She is a former chair of the British Institute for the Study of Iraq and a Quondam fellow of A ...

* 2003: Leonard Gillman * 2003: Sam Northshield * 2003: Sergio B. Volchan * 2003: Warren P. Johnson * 2002: David Lindsay Roberts * 2002: Dirk Huylebrouck * 2002: Greg Martin * 2002: Peter Borwein & Loki Jorgenson * 2001: E.R. Scheinerman * 2001: Keith Kendig * 2000: P.J. McKenna * 2000:

Vilmos Totik Vilmos Totik (Mosonmagyaróvár, March 8, 1954) is a Hungarian mathematician, working in classical analysis, harmonic analysis, orthogonal polynomials, approximation theory, potential theory. He is a professor of the University of Szeged. Since 19 ...

* 2000: William Terrell * 1999: Bernd Sturmfels * 1999: Jerry L. Kazdan * 1999: Yoav Benyamini * 1998: Bruce Pourciau * 1998: Judith V. Grabiner * 1998: S. C. Coutinho * 1997: Alan F. Beardon * 1997: John Brillhart and Patrick Morton * 1997:

Robert G. Bartle Robert Gardner Bartle (November 20, 1927 – September 18, 2003) was an American mathematician specializing in real analysis. He is known for writing the popular textbooks ''The Elements of Real Analysis'' (1964), ''The Elements of Integration'' ...

* 1996: John Oprea * 1996: Martin Aigner * 1996:

Sheldon Axler Sheldon Jay Axler (born November 6, 1949, Philadelphia) is an American mathematician and textbook author. He is a professor of mathematics and the Dean of the College of Science and Engineering at San Francisco State University. He graduated fr ...

* 1995: Fernando Q. Gouvea * 1995: Israel Kleiner * 1995: Jonathan L. King * 1995: N. Movshovitz-Hadar * 1995: Robert Gray * 1995:

William C. Waterhouse William Charles Waterhouse (December 31, 1941 – June 26, 2016) was an American mathematician. He was a professor emeritus of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University.

* 1994: Bruce C. Berndt * 1994: Dan Velleman * 1994: Edgar R. Lorch * 1994: Istvan Szalkai * 1994:

Joseph H. Silverman Joseph Hillel Silverman (born March 27, 1955, New York City) is a professor of mathematics at Brown University working in arithmetic geometry, arithmetic dynamics, and cryptography. Biography Joseph Silverman received an Sc.B. from Brown Unive ...

* 1994: Leonard Gillman * 1994: Reuben Hersh * 1994: S. Bhargava * 1993: Carsten Thomassen * 1993: Donald E. Knuth * 1992: Clement W.H. Lam * 1991: Edward Scheinerman * 1991:

Frances Yao Frances Foong Chu Yao () is a Chinese-born American mathematician and theoretical computer scientist. She is currently a Chair Professor at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS) of Tsinghua University. She was Chair Prof ...

* 1991: Joyce Justicz * 1991: Marcel Y. Berger * 1991: Peter Winkler * 1991:

Ronald L. Graham Ronald Lewis Graham (October 31, 1935July 6, 2020) was an American mathematician credited by the American Mathematical Society as "one of the principal architects of the rapid development worldwide of discrete mathematics in recent years". H ...

* 1990: Chee K. Yap * 1990: Doron Zeilberger * 1990: Jacob Goodman * 1990: Janos Pach * 1989: Bruce C. Berndt * 1989: Gert Almkvist * 1989: Richard Guy * 1988: James Epperson * 1988: Stan Wagon * 1987: David Yost * 1987: Howard Hiller * 1987: Jacob Korevaar * 1987: Joan Cleary * 1987: Peter Neumann * 1987: Sidney Morris * 1987:

Stuart S. Antman Stuart Sheldon Antman is an American mathematician. He is Distinguished University Research Professor at the University of Maryland.

* 1986: Jeffrey Lagarias * 1986: Michael Taylor * 1985: Donald G. Saari * 1985: John B. Urenko * 1985: John D. Dixon * 1984: Joel Spencer * 1984:

John W. Milnor John Willard Milnor (born February 20, 1931) is an American mathematician known for his work in differential topology, algebraic K-theory and low-dimensional holomorphic dynamical systems. Milnor is a distinguished professor at Stony Brook Univ ...

* 1984: Judith Grabiner * 1984: Roger E. Howe * 1984:

William C. Waterhouse William Charles Waterhouse (December 31, 1941 – June 26, 2016) was an American mathematician. He was a professor emeritus of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University.

* 1983: Robert F. Brown * 1983: Robert S. Strichartz * 1983: Tony Rothman * 1982: Philip J. Davis * 1982: R. Arthur Knoebel * 1981: Alan H. Schoenfeld * 1981: Bruce H. Pourciau * 1981: Edward R. Swart * 1981: Lawrence A. Zalcman * 1981: R. Creighton Buck * 1980: Cathleen S. Morawetz * 1980: David Gale * 1980: Desmond P. Fearnley-Sander * 1980: Karel Hrbacek * 1980: Robert Osserman * 1979: Bradley Efron * 1979: Joseph B. Kruskal * 1979: Kenneth I. Gross * 1979: Lawrence A. Shepp * 1979: Ned Glick * 1978:

Louis H. Kauffman Louis Hirsch Kauffman (born February 3, 1945) is an American mathematician, topologist, and professor of mathematics in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is known for the ...

* 1978: Neil J.A. Sloane * 1978:

Ralph P. Boas Ralph Philip Boas Jr. (August 8, 1912 – July 25, 1992) was a mathematician, teacher, and journal editor. He wrote over 200 papers, mainly in the fields of real and complex analysis.. Biography He was born in Walla Walla, Washington, the son ...

* 1978: Thomas F. Banchoff * 1977: Daihachiro Sato * 1977: Donald S. Passman * 1977:

Douglas Wiens Douglas Paul Wiens is a Canadian statistician; he is a professor in the Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at the University of Alberta. Wiens earned a B.Sc. in mathematics (1972), two master's degrees in mathematical logic (1974 ...

* 1977: Hideo Wada * 1977: J.H. Ewing * 1977: James P. Jones * 1977: Joseph B. Keller * 1977:

* 1977: S.H. Moolgavkar * 1977: Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar * 1977: William H. Gustafson * 1977: William H. Wheeler * 1977: William P. Ziemer * 1976: Branko Grunbaum * 1976: David W. McLaughlin * 1976: Edward A. Bender * 1976: H.P. Young * 1976:

James E. Humphreys James Edward Humphreys (December 10, 1939 – August 27, 2020) was an American mathematician, who worked in algebraic groups, Lie groups, and Lie algebras and applications of these mathematical structures. He is known as the author of several m ...

* 1976: Jay R. Goldman * 1976: Joseph B. Keller * 1976: Justin J. Price * 1976: Michel L. Balinski * 1975: Donald E. Knuth * 1975: J. Callahan * 1975: Johannes C.C. Nitsche * 1975: Lawrence A. Zalcman * 1975: R. Ayoub * 1975: Sherman K. Stein * 1974: Garrett Birkhoff * 1974: I.J. Schoenberg * 1974: Lynn Arthur Steen * 1974: Martin D. Davis * 1974: Patrick Billingsley * 1974: R.J. Wilson * 1973: Jean A. Dieudonne * 1973: Lynn Arthur Steen * 1973: Peter D. Lax * 1973: Raymond L. Wilder * 1973: Samuel Karlin * 1973:

Thomas L. Saaty Thomas L. Saaty (July 18, 1926 – August 14, 2017) was a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, where he taught in the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business. He is the inventor, architect, and primary theoreticia ...

* 1972: Frederick Cunningham, Jr. * 1972: Gulbank D. Chakerian * 1972: Leon Henkin * 1972: Lester H. Lange * 1972: Paul M. Cohn * 1972: Victor Klee * 1972:

William J. Ellison William John Ellison (1943 - 16 March 2022) was a British mathematician who worked on number theory. Ellison studied at the University of Cambridge, where he earned his bachelor's degree and then, after spending the academic year 1969/70 at the ...

* 1971: Eric Langford * 1971:

George Forsythe George Elmer Forsythe (January 8, 1917 – April 9, 1972) was an American computer scientist and numerical analyst who founded and led Stanford University's Computer Science Department. Forsythe is often credited with coining the term "computer ...

* 1971: Jean A. Dieudonne * 1971: Olga Taussky * 1971:

* 1971: Peter V. O'Neil * 1970: Henry L. Alder * 1970: Ivan Niven * 1970:

* 1970: Norman Levinson * 1970:

* 1970: William A. Coppel * 1969:

Albert Wilansky Albert "Tommy" Wilansky (13 September 1921, St Johns, Newfoundland – 3 July 2017, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) was a Canadian-American mathematician, known for introducing Smith numbers. Biography Wilansky was educated as an undergraduate at Dalhousi ...

* 1969:

Harley Flanders Harley M. Flanders (September 13, 1925 – July 26, 2013) was an American mathematician, known for several textbooks and contributions to his fields: algebra and algebraic number theory, linear algebra, electrical networks, scientific computing. ...

* 1969: Hassler Whitney * 1969: Marcel F. Neuts * 1969: Pierre Samuel * 1968: Daniel Pedoe * 1968: Frederick Cunningham, Jr. * 1968: Hans J. Zassenhaus * 1968: Keith L. Phillips * 1968: Margaret Maxfield and F. V. Waugh * 1968: W.F. Newns * 1967: D.R. Fulkerson * 1967: M.Z. Nashed * 1967: Mark Kac * 1967: Paul B. Yale * 1967:

Wai-Kai Chen Wai-Kai Chen (; born December 23, 1936, in Nanjing) is a Chinese-American professor emeritus of electrical engineering and computer science. Biography Wai-Kai Chen's youth was troubled by the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–1945 followed by the civil ...

* 1966:

Carl B. Allendoerfer Carl Barnett Allendoerfer (April 4, 1911 – September 29, 1974) was an American mathematician in the mid-twentieth century, known for his work in topology and mathematics education. Background Allendoerfer was born in Kansas City, the son o ...

* 1966: Henryk Minc * 1966:

Marvin Marcus Marvin David Marcus (July 31, 1927, Albuquerque, New Mexico – February 20, 2016, Santa Barbara, California) was an American mathematician, known as a leading expert on linear and multilinear algebra. Education and career From 1944 to 1946, Ma ...

* 1966: Peter D. Lax * 1965: Elmer Tolsted * 1965: Hartley Rogers, Jr. * 1965: Louis Brand * 1965:

R. Duncan Luce Robert Duncan Luce (May 16, 1925 – August 11, 2012) was an American mathematician and social scientist, and one of the most preeminent figures in the field of mathematical psychology. At the end of his life, he held the position of Distingu ...

* 1965: R.H. Bing * 1965: Robert G. Kuller

References

External links

Paul R. Halmos - Lester R. Ford Awards
on the website of the Mathematical Association of America. Includes a list of past recipients. {{DEFAULTSORT:Paul R. Halmos - Lester R. Ford Award Awards of the Mathematical Association of America

Recipients

See also

References

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