for "Lewis Carroll's Condensation Method for Evaluating Determinants,"
Math Horizons, November 2006, pp. 12-15.
The awarding of prizes for expository writing has long been one of the high points of MathFest. The awards were announced on August 4, 2007. MAA president Joe Gallian presided over the ceremony. (Award recipients whose photos do not appear below were unable to be present.)
The full prize booklet, which includes citations and responses by the winners, can be viewed with Adobe Acrobat Reader.
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Trevor Evans Award for articles published in Math
Horizons
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Adrian Rice and Eve Torrence for "Lewis Carroll's Condensation Method for Evaluating Determinants," Math Horizons, November 2006, pp. 12-15. |
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Robert Bosch
for "Opt Art," Math Horizons, February 2006, pp. 6-9. |
George Pólya Award for articles published in the
College Mathematics Journal
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Richard Jerrard, Joel Schneider, Ralph Smallberg, and John Wetzel
for "Straw in a Box," College Mathematics Journal, v. 37, March 2006, pp. 93-102. Not pictured: Joel Schneider and John Wetzel. |
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Allen Schwenk
for "Distortion of Average Class Size: The Lake Wobegon Effect," College Mathematics Journal, v. 37, September 2006, pp. 293-296. |
Carl B. Allendoerfer Award for articles published in
Mathematics Magazine
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Carl V. Lutzer
for "Hammer Juggling, Rotational Instability, and Eigenvalues," Mathematics Magazine, v. 79, no. 4, October 2006, pp. 243-250. |
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Saul Stahl
for "The Evolution of the Normal Distribution," Mathematics Magazine, v. 79, no. 2, April 2006 pp. 96-113. |
Lester R. Ford Award for articles published in
The American Mathematical Monthly
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Andrew Granville and Greg Martin for "Prime Number Races," The American Mathematical Monthly, v. 113, no.1, January 2006, pp. 1-33. Greg Martin pictured. |
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Jeffrey C. Lagarias for "Wild and Wooley Numbers," The American Mathematical Monthly, v. 113, no.2, February 2006, pp. 97-108. |
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Lluís Bibiloni, Jaume Paradís, and Pelegrí Viader for "On a Series of Golbach and Euler," The American Mathematical Monthly, v. 113, no.3, March 2006, pp. 206-220. |
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Harold P. Boas for "Reflections on the Arbelos," The American Mathematical Monthly, v. 113, no.3, March 2006, pp. 236-249. |
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Michael J. Mossinghoff for "A $1 Problem," The American Mathematical Monthly, v. 113, no.5, May 2006, pp. 385-402. |
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Franklin Mendivil for "Fractals, Graphs, and Fields," The American Mathematical Monthly, v. 110, no.6, June-July 2003, pp. 503-515. |
Henry L. Alder Award for Distinguished Teaching by a
Beginning College or University Mathematics Faculty Member
The Alder Awards honor beginning college or university faculty whose
teaching has been extraordinarily successful and whose work is known to
have had influence beyond their own classrooms. This years winners are:
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| Timothy Chartier Davidson College |
Saytan Devadoss Williams College |
Darren Narayan Rochester Institute of Technology |