The Mathematical Association of America's
Carl B. Allendoerfer Award

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.

List of Recipients

2007
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.

2006
Robb T. Koether and John K. Osinach, Jr. for "Outwitting the Lying Oracle" Mathematics Magazine, vol. 78, May 2005, pp. 98-109.

Jeff Suzuki for "The Lost Calculus(1637-1670):Tangency and Optimization Withouts Limits" Mathematics Magazine, vol. 78, December 2005, pp. 339-353

2005
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.

2004
Charles I. Delman and Gregory Galperin “A Tale of Three Circles” Mathematics Magazine February 2003, pp.15-32.

2003
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.

2002
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

2001
James N. Brawner, Dinner, Dancing, and Tennis, Anyone? Math. Mag. 73 (2000)
Raphael Falk Jones, and Janice L. Pearce, A Postmodern View of Fractions and the Reciprocals of Fermat Primes, Math. Mag. 73 (2000)

2000
Donald Teets and Karen Whitehead, The discovery of Ceres: How Gauss became famous, Math. Mag. 72 (1999) 83-91.

1999
Victor Klee and John R. Reay, Surprising but easily proved geometric decomposition theorem, Math. Mag. 71 (1998)
Donald G. Saari and Fabrice Valognes, Geometry, voting, and paradoxes, Math. Mag. 71 (1998)

1998
Dan Kalman, Robert Mena, and Shahriar Shahriari, Variations on an Irrational Theme--Geometry, Dynamics, Algebra, Math. Mag. 70 (1997), 93-104.

1997
Colm Mulcahy, Plotting and Scheming with Wavelets, Math. Mag. 69 (1996), 323-343.
Lin Tan, Groups of Rational Points on the Unit Circle, Math. Mag. 69 (1996), 163-171.

1996
Judith Grabiner, Descartes and Problem-Solving, Math. Mag. 68 (1995), 83-97.
Daniel J. Velleman and Gregory S. Call, Permutations and Combination Locks, Math. Mag. 68 (1995), 243-253

1995
Lee Badger, Lazzarini's Lucky Approximation of pi, Math. Mag. 67 (1994), 83-91.
Tristan Needham, The Geometry of Harmonic Functions, Math. Mag. 67 (1994), 92-108.

1994
Joan Hutchinson, Coloring Ordinary Maps, Maps of Empires, and Maps of the Moon, Math. Mag. 66 (1993), 211-226.

1993
Xun-cheng Huang, From Intermediate Value Theorem to Chaos, Math. Mag. 65 (1992), 91-103.

1992
Israel Kleiner, Rigor and Proof in Mathematics: An Historical Perspective, Math. Mag. 64 (1991), 291-314.
Gulbank D. Chakerian and David E. Logothetti, Cube Slices, Pictorial Triangulations, and Probability, Math. Mag. 64 (1991), 219-241.

1991
Ranjan Roy, The Discovery of the Series Formula for a by Leibniz, Gregory and Nilakantha, Math. Mag. 63 (1990), 291-306.

1990
Thomas Archibald, Connectivity and Smoke-Rings: Green's Second Identity in Its First Fifty Years, Math. Mag. 62 (1989), 219-232.
Fan K. Chung, Martin Gardner and Ronald L. Graham, Steiner Trees on a Checkerboard, Math. Mag. 62 (1989), 83-96.

1989
W.B. Raymond Lickorish and Kenneth C. Millett, The New Polynomial Invariants of Knots and Links, Math. Mag. 61 (1988), 3-23.
Judith V. Grabiner, The Centrality of Mathematics in the History of Western Thought, Math. Mag. 61 (1988), 220-230.

1988
Bart Braden, Pólya's Geometric Picture of Complex Contour Integrals, Math. Mag. 60, (1987), 321-327.
Steven Galovich, Products of Sines and Cosines, Math. Mag. 60, (1987), 105-113.

1987
Israel Kleiner, The Evolution of Group Theory: A Brief Survey, Math. Mag. 59 (1986), 195-215.
Paul Zorn, The Bieberbach Conjecture, Math. Mag. 59 (1986), 131-148.

1986
Bart Braden, The Design of an Oscillating Sprinkler, Math. Mag. 58 (1985), 29-38.
Saul Stahl, The Other Map Coloring Theorem, Math. Mag. 58 (1985), 131-145.

1985
Frederick S. Gass, Constructive Ordinal Notation Systems, Math. Mag. 57 (1984), 131-141.
Philip D. Straffin, Jr. and Bernard Grofman, Parliamentary Coalitions: A Tour of Models, Math. Mag. 57 (1984), 259-274.

1984
Judith V. Grabiner, The Changing Concept of Change: The Derivative from Fermat to Weierstrass, Math. Mag. 56 (1983), 195-206.

1983
Donald O. Koehler, Mathematics and Literature, Math. Mag. 55 (1982), 81-95.
Clifford H. Wagner, A Generic Approach to Iterative Methods, Math. Mag. 55 (1982), 259-273.

1982
J. Ian Richards, Continued Fractions without Tears, Math. Mag. 54 (1981), 163-171.
Marjorie Senechal, Which Tetrahedra Fill Space?, Math. Mag. 54 (1981), 227-243.

1981
Stephen B. Maurer, The King Chicken Theorems, Math. Mag. 53 (1980), 67-80.
Donald E. Sanderson, Advanced Plane Topology from an Elementary Standpoint, Math. Mag. 53 (1980), 81-89.

1980
Victor L. Klee, Jr., Some Unsolved Problems in Plane Geometry, Math. Mag. 52 (1979), 131-145.
Ernst Snapper, The Three Crises in Mathematics: Logicism, Intuitionism, and Formalism, Math. Mag. 52 (1979), 207-216.

1979
Bruce C. Berndt, Ramanujan's Notebooks, Math. Mag. 51 (1978), 147-164.
Doris W. Schattschneider, Tiling the Plane with Congruent Pentagons, Math. Mag. 51 (1978), 29-44.

1978
Geoffrey C. Shephard and Branko Grünbaum, Tiling by Regular Polygons, Math. Mag. 50 (1977), 227-247.
David A. Smith, Human Population Growth: Stability or Explosion?, Math. Mag. 50 (1977), 186-197.

1977
Joseph A. Gallian, The Search for Finite Simple Groups, Math. Mag. 49 (1976), 163-180.
B.L. van der Waerden, Hamilton's Discovery of Quaternions, Math. Mag. 49 (1976), 227-234.