Writing and Teaching Awards Handed Out at MathFest 2009

August 12, 2009

The Mathematical Association of America was pleased to recognize the following people with awards at MathFest 2009 in Portland, Ore. Each of the awards below is a testament to its recipient’s hard work and mathematical knowledge. Awardees join a distinguished list of mathematical teachers and expositors who have been previously honored.

View the MathFest 2009 Prizes and Awards Booklet (pdf)

Carl B. Allendoerfer Awards

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.

Trevor Evans Awards

Richard A. Guyer
“Radiology Paging a Good Mathematician: Why Math Can Contribute More to Medicine Than You Might Think”
Math Horizons, April 2008, pp. 5–9.

Randy K. Schwartz
“The Birth of the Meter”
Math Horizons, September 2008, pp. 14-17, 31.

Lester R. Ford Awards

Michel Balinski
“Fair Majority Voting (or How to Eliminate Gerrymandering)”
The American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 115, no. 2, February 2008, pp. 97–113.

Andrew Bashelor, Amy Ksir, and Will Traves
“Enumerative Algebraic Geometry of Conics”
The American Mathematical Monthly, vol.115, no. 8, October 2008, pp. 701–728.

Andrew Granville
“Prime Number Patterns”
The American Mathematical Monthly, vol.115, no. 4, April 2008, pp. 279–296.

Dan Kalman
“An Elementary Proof of Marden’s Theorem”
The American Mathematical Monthly, vol.115, no. 4, April 2008, pp. 330–338.

Mehrdad Khosravi and Michael D. Taylor
“The Wedge Product and Analytic Geometry”
The American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 115, no. 7, August/September 2008, pp. 623–644.