2012 MAA Awards Recipients Announced

August 5, 2012
MAA MathFest 2012

The Mathematical Association of America has selected the 2012 recipients for the following awards:

Carl B. Allendoerfer Award

  • 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.

    • Trevor Evans Award

    Nathan Carter (Bentley University) and Dan Kalman (American University) - “Harvey Plotter and the Circle of Irrationality,” Math Horizons, vol. 19:2 (2011), p. 10-13.

    Lester R. Ford Award

  • David A. Cox (Amherst College) - “Why Eisenstein Proved the Eisenstein Criterion and Why Schönemann Discovered It First,”  American Mathematical Monthly, 118:1 (2011), p. 3-21.
  • Graham Everest and Thomas Ward (University of East Anglia) - “A Repulsion Motif in Diophantine Equations,"  American Mathematical Monthly, 118:7 (2011), p. 584-598.
  • Peter Sarnak (Princeton University) - “Integral Apollonian Packings," American Mathematical Monthly, 118:4 (2011), p. 291-306.
  • Ravi Vakil (Stanford University) - "The Mathematics of Doodling," American Mathematical Monthly, 118:2 (2011), p. 116-129.

    • George Pólya Award

  • T.S. Michael (U.S. Naval Academy) - "Guards, Galleries, Fortresses, and the Octoplex," College Mathematics Journal, v. 42:3 (2011), p. 191-200.
  • Leslie A. Cheteyan (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center), Stewart Hengeveld (Blue Cross Blue Shield), and Michael A. Jones (Associate Editor at Mathematical Reviews) - Chutes and Ladders for the Impatient," College Mathematics Journal, v. 42:1 (2011), p. 2-8.

    • Selden Prize for Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education

    Lara Alcock (Loughborough University)

    Henry L. Alder Awards

  • Kathryn Leonard (California State University Channel Islands)
  • Susan Martonosi (Harvey Mudd College)
  • Michael Posner (Villanova University)

    • William Lowell Putnam Competition and Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize

    USA Mathematical Olympiad

    Mary P. Dolciani Award

    William G. McCallum (University of Arizona)

    Awards were presented during the MAA Prize Session on Friday, August 3, 2012, at the 2012 MAA MathFest in Madison, Wisconsin.