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The Carl B. Allendoerfer Awards, established in 1976, are given for articles of expository excellence published in Mathematics Magazine. The Awards are named for Carl B. Allendoerfer, a distinguished mathematician at the University of Washington and President of the Mathematical Association of America, 1959-60. This is an award of $500. Up to two of these awards are given annually at the Summer Meeting of the Association.
Khristo N. Boyadzhiev (Ohio Northern University) - "Close Encounters with the Stirling Numbers of the Second Kind" Mathematics Magazine, 85:4 (2012), pp. 252-266.
Adrian Rice (Randolph-Macon College) and Ezra Brown (Virginia Tech) - "Why Ellipses Are Not Elliptic Curves" Mathematics Magazine, 85:3 (2012), pp. 163-176.
P. Mark Kayll (University of Montana) - “Integrals Don't Have Anything to Do with Discrete Math, Do They?”Mathematics Magazine, 84:2 (2011), p. 108-119.
John A. Adam (Old Dominion University) - “Blood Vessel Branching: Beyond the Standard Calculus Problem,"Mathematics Magazine, 84:3 (2011), p. 196-207.
Gene Abrams and Jessica K. Sklar, "The Graph Menagerie: Abstract Algebra and the Mad Veterinarian," Mathematics Magazine, 83:3 (2010), p. 168-179.
Curtis D. Bennett, Blake Mellor, and Patrick D. Shanahan, "Drawing a Triangle on the Thurston Model of Hyperbolic Space," Mathematics Magazine, 83:2 (2010), p. 83-99.
Ezra Brown and Keith Mellinger, "Kirkman's Schoolgirls Wearing Hats and Walking Through Fields of Numbers," Mathematics Magazine, vol. 82, no. 1, 2009, pp. 3-15.
David Speyer and Bernd Sturmfels, "Tropical Mathematics," Mathematics Magazine, vol. 92, no. 3, 2009, pp. 163-173.
Vesna Stojanoska and Orlin Stoytchev,"Touching the Z2 in Three-Dimensional Rotations," Mathematics Magazine, vol. 81, no. 5, December 2008, pp. 345-357.
Jeff Suzuki, "A Brief History of Impossibility" Mathematics Magazine, vol. 81, no. 1, February 2008, pp. 27-38.
Eugene Boman, Richard Brazier and Derek Seiple, "Mom! There's an Asteroid in My Closet!" Mathematics Magazine, vol. 80, no. 2, April 2007, pp. 104-111.
Chris Christensen, "Polish Mathematicians Finding Patterns in Enigma Messages," Mathematics Magazine, vol. 80, no. 4, October 2007, pp. 247-273.
Carl V. Lutzer for "Hammer Juggling, Rotational Instability, and Eigenvalues" Mathematics Magazine, v. 79, no. 4, October 2006, pp. 243-250.
Saul Stahl for "The Evolution of the Normal Distribution" Mathematics Magazine, v. 79, no. 2, April 2006 pp. 96-113.
Robb T. Koether and John K. Osinach, Jr., "Outwitting the Lying Oracle," Mathematics Magazine, vol. 78, May 2005, pp. 98-109.
Jeff Suzuki "The Lost Calculus(1637-1670):Tangency and Optimization Withouts Limits" Mathematics Magazine, vol. 78, December 2005, pp. 339-353.
Roger B. Eggleton and William P. Galvin, "Upper Bounds on the Sum of Principal Divisors of an Integer," Mathematics Magazine, vol. 77, no. 3, June 2004, pp. 190-200.
Charles I. Delman and Gregory Galperin, "A Tale of Three Circles," Mathematics Magazine February 2003, pp.15-32.
Ezra Brown, "The Many Names of (7,3,1)," Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 75, 2002, pp.83-94.
Dan Kalman, "Doubly Recusive Multivariate Automatic Differentiation," Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 75, 2002, pp.187-202.
Mark McKinzie and Curtis Tuckey, "Higher Trigonometry, Hyperreal Numbers, and Euler's Analysis of Infinities," Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 74, No. 5, December 2001, pp.339-368
James N. Brawner, "Dinner, Dancing, and Tennis, Anyone?" Mathematics Magazine, 73 (2000).
Raphael Falk Jones, and Janice L. Pearce, "A Postmodern View of Fractions and the Reciprocals of Fermat Primes," Mathematics Magazine, (2000).
Donald Teets and Karen Whitehead, "The discovery of Ceres: How Gauss became famous," Mathematics Magazine, 72 (1999) 83-91.
Victor Klee and John R. Reay, "Surprising but easily proved geometric decomposition theorem," Mathematics Magazine, 71 (1998)
Donald G. Saari and Fabrice Valognes, "Geometry, voting, and paradoxes," Mathematics Magazine, 71 (1998)
Dan Kalman, Robert Mena, and Shahriar Shahriari, "Variations on an Irrational Theme—Geometry, Dynamics, Algebra," Mathematics Magazine, 70 (1997), 93-104.
Colm Mulcahy, "Plotting and Scheming with Wavelets," Mathematics Magazine, 69 (1996), 323-343.
Lin Tan, "Groups of Rational Points on the Unit Circle," Mathematics Magazine, 69 (1996), 163-171.
Judith Grabiner, "Descartes and Problem-Solving," Mathematics Magazine, 68 (1995), 83-97.
Daniel J. Velleman and Gregory S. Call, "Permutations and Combination Locks," Mathematics Magazine, 68 (1995), 243-253.
Lee Badger, "Lazzarini's Lucky Approximation of Pi," Mathematics Magazine, 67 (1994), 83-91.
Tristan Needham, "The Geometry of Harmonic Functions," Mathematics Magazine, 67 (1994), 92-108.
Joan Hutchinson, "Coloring Ordinary Maps, Maps of Empires, and Maps of the Moon," Mathematics Magazine, 66 (1993), 211-226.
Xun-cheng Huang, "From Intermediate Value Theorem to Chaos," Mathematics Magazine, 65 (1992), 91-103.
Israel Kleiner, "Rigor and Proof in Mathematics: An Historical Perspective," Mathematics Magazine, 64 (1991), 291-314.
Gulbank D. Chakerian and David E. Logothetti, "Cube Slices, Pictorial Triangulations, and Probability," Mathematics Magazine, 64 (1991), 219-241.
Ranjan Roy, "The Discovery of the Series Formula for a by Leibniz, Gregory and Nilakantha," Mathematics Magazine, 63 (1990), 291-306.
Thomas Archibald, "Connectivity and Smoke-Rings: Green's Second Identity in Its First Fifty Years," Mathematics Magazine, 62 (1989), 219-232.
Fan K. Chung, Martin Gardner and Ronald L. Graham, "Steiner Trees on a Checkerboard," Mathematics Magazine, 62 (1989), 83-96.
W.B. Raymond Lickorish and Kenneth C. Millett, "The New Polynomial Invariants of Knots and Links," Mathematics Magazine, 61 (1988), 3-23.
Judith V. Grabiner, "The Centrality of Mathematics in the History of Western Thought," Mathematics Magazine, 61 (1988), 220-230.
Bart Braden, "Pólya's Geometric Picture of Complex Contour Integrals," Mathematics Magazine, 60, (1987), 321-327.
Steven Galovich, "Products of Sines and Cosines," Mathematics Magazine, 60, (1987), 105-113.
Israel Kleiner, "The Evolution of Group Theory: A Brief Survey," Mathematics Magazine, 59 (1986), 195-215.
Paul Zorn, "The Bieberbach Conjecture," Mathematics Magazine, 59 (1986), 131-148.
Bart Braden, "The Design of an Oscillating Sprinkler," Mathematics Magazine, 58 (1985), 29-38.
Saul Stahl, "The Other Map Coloring Theorem," Mathematics Magazine, 58 (1985), 131-145.
Frederick S. Gass, "Constructive Ordinal Notation Systems," Mathematics Magazine, 57 (1984), 131-141.
Philip D. Straffin, Jr. and Bernard Grofman, "Parliamentary Coalitions: A Tour of Models," Mathematics Magazine, 57 (1984), 259-274.
Judith V. Grabiner, "The Changing Concept of Change: The Derivative from Fermat to Weierstrass," Mathematics Magazine, 56 (1983), 195-206.
Donald O. Koehler, "Mathematics and Literature," Mathematics Magazine, 55 (1982), 81-95.
Clifford H. Wagner, "A Generic Approach to Iterative Methods," Mathematics Magazine, 55 (1982), 259-273.
J. Ian Richards, "Continued Fractions without Tears," Mathematics Magazine, 54 (1981), 163-171.
Marjorie Senechal, "Which Tetrahedra Fill Space?," Mathematics Magazine, 54 (1981), 227-243.
Stephen B. Maurer, "The King Chicken Theorems," Mathematics Magazine, 53 (1980), 67-80.
Donald E. Sanderson, "Advanced Plane Topology from an Elementary Standpoint," Mathematics Magazine, 53 (1980), 81-89.
Victor L. Klee, Jr., "Some Unsolved Problems in Plane Geometry," Mathematics Magazine, 52 (1979), 131-145.
Ernst Snapper, "The Three Crises in Mathematics: Logicism, Intuitionism, and Formalism," Mathematics Magazine, 52 (1979), 207-216.
Bruce C. Berndt, "Ramanujan's Notebooks," Mathematics Magazine, 51 (1978), 147-164.
Doris W. Schattschneider, "Tiling the Plane with Congruent Pentagons," Mathematics Magazine, 51 (1978), 29-44.
Geoffrey C. Shephard and Branko Grünbaum, "Tiling by Regular Polygons," Mathematics Magazine, 50 (1977), 227-247.
David A. Smith, "Human Population Growth: Stability or Explosion?," Mathematics Magazine, 50 (1977), 186-197.
Joseph A. Gallian, "The Search for Finite Simple Groups," Mathematics Magazine, 49 (1976), 163-180.
B.L. van der Waerden, "Hamilton's Discovery of Quaternions," Mathematics Magazine, 49 (1976), 227-234.