Chauvenet Prize

The Chauvenet Prize is an annual award given by the Mathematical Association of America in recognition of an outstanding expository article on a mathematical topic. It consists of a prize of $1,000 and a certificate.

The Chauvenet Prize was the first award established by the Mathematical Association of America. The prize is named in honor of William Chauvenet and was established through a gift from J. L. Coolidge in 1925. A gift from MAA president Walter B. Ford in 1928 allowed the award to be given every three years instead of the originally planned 5 years.

Winners

 * 1925 G. A. Bliss
 * 1929 T. H. Hildebrandt
 * 1932 G. H. Hardy
 * 1935 Dunham Jackson
 * 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 & Joseph P. LaSalle
 * 1967 Guido Weiss
 * 1968 Mark Kac
 * 1970 Shiing Shen Chern
 * 1971 Norman Levinson
 * 1972 Jean Francois Treves
 * 1973 Carl D. Olds
 * 1974 Peter D. Lax
 * 1975 Martin Davis and Reuben Hersh
 * 1976 Lawrence Zalcman
 * 1977 W. Gilbert Strang
 * 1978 Shreeram S. Abhyankar
 * 1979 Neil J. A. Sloane
 * 1980 Heinz Bauer
 * 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
 * 1988 Steve Smale
 * 1989 Jacob Korevaar
 * 1990 David Allen Hoffman
 * 1991 W. B. Raymond Lickorish and Kenneth C. Millett
 * 1992 Steven G. Krantz
 * 1993 David H. Bailey, Jonathan M. Borwein and Peter B. Borwein
 * 1994 Barry Mazur
 * 1995 Donald G. Saari
 * 1996 Joan Birman
 * 1997 Tom Hawkins
 * 1998 Alan Edelman and Eric Kostlan
 * 1999 Michael I. Rosen
 * 2000 Don Zagier
 * 2001 Carolyn S. Gordon and David L. Webb
 * 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
 * 2008 Andrew Granville
 * 2009 Harold P. Boas
 * 2010 Brian J. McCartin
 * 2011 Bjorn Poonen
 * 2012 Dennis DeTurck, Herman Gluck, Daniel Pomerleano & David Shea Vela-Vick
 * 2013 Robert Ghrist
 * 2014 Ravi Vakil
 * 2015 Dana Mackenzie
 * 2016 Susan Marshall & Donald R. Smith
 * 2017 Mark Schilling
 * 2018 Daniel J. Velleman
 * 2019 Tom Leinster
 * 2020 Vladimir Pozdnyakov, J. Michael Steele
 * 2021 Travis Kowalski
 * 2022 William Dunham, Ezra Brown & Matthew Crawford
 * 2023 Kimmo Eriksson, Jonas Eliasson
 * 2024 Jeffrey Whitmer

Source: Mathematical Association of America