The Mathematical Association of America's Yueh-Gin Gung and Dr. Charles Y. Hu Distinguished Service to Mathematics Award

The Gung and Hu Award for Distinguished Service to Mathematics, first presented in 1990, consists of a cash prize of $5000, a citation, and the recognition of the American mathematical community. As the endowed successor to the Association's Award for Distinguished Service to Mathematics, first presented in 1962, this award is intended to be the most prestigious award for service offered by the Association. It honors distinguished contributions to mathematics and mathematical education-in one particular aspect or many, and in a short period or over a career. The initial endowment was contributed by husband and wife Dr. Charles Y. Hu and Yueh-Gin Gung. It is worth noting that Dr. Hu and Yueh-Gin Gung were not mathematicians, but rather a professor of geography at the University of Maryland and a librarian at the University of Chicago, respectively. They contributed generously to our discipline because, as they wrote, "We always have high regard and great respect for the intellectual agility and high quality of mind of mathematicians and consider mathematics as the most vital field of study in the technological age we are living in."”

List of Recipients

2013
William A. Hawkins
University of the District of Columbia

2012
John Ewing
Math for America

2011
Joseph Gallian
University of Minnesota Duluth

2010
Kenneth A. Ross
University of Oregon

2009
Robert Megginson
University of Michigan

2008
Lida Barrett
University of Tennessee

2007
Lee Lorch
York University in Toronto

2006
Hyman Bass
University of Michigan

2005
Gerald L. Alexanderson
Santa Clara University

2004
T. Christine Stevens
Saint Louis University

2003
Clarence F. Stephens
SUNY at Potsdam

2001
Manuel P. Berriozabal
University of Texas at San Antonio

2000
Paul R. Halmos
Santa Clara University

1999
Leonard Gillman
University of Texas at Austin

1998
Alice T. Schafer
Wellesley College

1997
Deborah Tepper Haimo
University of California at San Diego

1996
Andrew Gleason
Harvard University

1995
Anneli Lax
New York University

1994
J. Sutherland Frame
Michigan State University

1993
Henry O. Pollak
Columbia University

1992
Lynn A. Steen
St. Olaf College

1991
Shirley Hill
University of Missouri-Kansas City

1990
Leon Henkin
University of California- Berkeley

1989
Ivan Niven
University of Oregon

1988
Murray S. Klamkin
University of Alberta

1987
Gail S. Young
Ossining, NY

1986
Arnold E. Ross
Ohio State University

1985
Everett Pitcher
Lehigh University

1984
(no award given)

1983
> Edwin F. Beckenbach (posthumously)
University of California- Los Angeles

1982
Thornton C. Fry
Carmel, CA

1981
Ralph P. Boas
Northwestern University

1980
Henry L. Alder
University of California-Davis

1979
Otto Neugebauer
Brown University

1978
Richard D. Anderson
Louisiana State University

1977
Victor Klee
University of Washington

1976
Leon W. Cohen
University of Maryland

1975
Saunders Mac Lane
University of Chicago

1974
RH Bing
University of Texas-Austin

1973
R.L. Wilder
University of Michigan

1972
Carl B. Allendoerfer
University of Washington

1971
Burton W. Jones
University of Colorado

1970
G. Baley Price
University of Kansas

1969
Edward G. Begle
Stanford University

1968
A.W. Tucker
Princeton University

1967
W.L. Duren
University of Virginia

1966
Harry M. Gehman
State University of New York at Buffalo

1965
Richard Courant
New York University

1964
E.J. McShane
University of Virginia

1963
George Pólya
Stanford University

1962
Mina S. Rees
Hunter College-City University of New York