The Carl B. Allendoerfer Award is presented annually by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) for "expository excellence published in Mathematics Magazine."[1] it is named after mathematician Carl B. Allendoerfer who was president of the MAA 1959–60.[2]
Recipients of the Carl B. Allendoerfer Award have included:[3] [4]
| Recipient | Year | Article | |
|---|---|---|---|
| David Hunter and Chisondi Warioba | 2022 | Segregation Surfaces | |
| Beth Malmskog and Kathryn Haymaker | 2020 | What (Quilting) Circles Can Be Squared? | |
| William Dunham | 2019 | The Early (and Peculiar) History of the Möbius Function | |
| Jordan Bell and Viktor Blåsjö | 2019 | Pietro Mengoli’s 1650 Proof that the Harmonic Series Diverges | |
| Fumiko Futamura and Robert Lehr | 2018 | A New Perspective on Finding the Viewpoint | |
| Brian Conrey, James Gabbard, Katie Grant, Andrew Liu, and Kent Morrison | 2017 | Intransitive Dice | |
| Vladimir Pozdnyakov and J. Michael Steele | 2017 | Buses, Bullies, and Bijections | |
| Julia Barnes, Clinton Curry, Elizabeth Russell, and Lisbeth Schaubroeck | 2016 | Emerging Julia Sets | |
| Irl Bivens and Ben Klein | 2016 | The Median Value of a Continuous Function | |
| Daniel Heath | 2015 | Straightedge and Compass Constructions in Spherical Geometry | |
| 2015 | The Sorting Hat Goes to College | ||
| Sally Cockburn and Joshua Lesperance | 2014 | Deranged Socks | |
| Susan Marshall and Donald Smith | 2014 | Feedback, Control, and Distribution of Prime Numbers | |
| Khristo N. Boyadzhiev | 2013 | Close Encounters with the Stirling Numbers of the Second Kind | |
| Adrian Rice and Ezra A. Brown | 2013 | Why Ellipses Are Not Elliptic Curves | |
| P. Mark Kayll | 2012 | Integrals Don't Have Anything to Do with Discrete Math, Do They? | |
| John A. Adam | 2012 | Blood Vessel Branching: Beyond the Standard Calculus Problem | |
| Curtis D. Bennett, Blake Mellor, and Patrick Shanahan | 2011 | Drawing a Triangle on the Thurston Model of Hyperbolic Space | |
| Gene Abrams and Jessica Sklar | 2011 | The Graph Menagerie: Abstract Algebra and the Mad Veterinarian | |
| David Speyer and Bernd Sturmfels | 2010 | Tropical Mathematics | |
| Ezra Brown and Keith Mellinger | 2010 | Kirkman's Schoolgirls Wearing Hats and Walking Through Fields of Numbers | |
| Jeff Suzuki | 2009 | A Brief History of Impossibility | |
| Vesna Stojanoska and Orlin Stoytchev | 2009 | Touching the Z2 in Three-Dimensional Rotations | |
| Chris Christensen | 2009 | Polish Mathematicians Finding Patterns in Enigma Messages | |
| Eugene Boman, Richard Brazier, and Derek Seiple | 2008 | Mom! There's an Astroid in My Closet | |
| Saul Stahl | 2008 | The Evolution of the Normal Distribution | |
| Carl V. Lutzer | 2007 | Hammer Juggling, Rotational Instability, and Eigenvalues | |
| Jeff Suzuki | 2006 | The Lost Calculus (1637-1670): Tangency and Optimization without Limits | |
| Robb T. Koether and John K. Osinach, Jr. | 2006 | Outwitting the Lying Oracle | |
| Roger B. Eggleton and William P. Galvin | 2005 | Upper Bounds on the Sum of Principal Divisors of an Integer | |
| Charles I. Delman and Gregory Galperin | 2004 | A Tale of Three Circles | |
| Ezra Brown | 2003 | The Many Names of (7,3,1) | |
| Dan Kalman | 2003 | Doubly Recursive Multivariate Automatic Differentiation | |
| Mark McKinzie and Curtis Tuckey | 2002 | Higher Trigonometry, Hyperreal Numbers, and Euler's Analysis of Infinities | |
| James N. Brawner | 2001 | Dinner, Dancing, and Tennis, Anyone? | |
| Raphael Falk Jones and Janice L. Pearce | 2001 | A Postmodern View of Fractions and the Reciprocals of Fermat Primes | |
| Donald Teets and Karen Whitehead | 2000 | The Discovery of Ceres: How Gauss Became Famous | |
| Donald G. Saari and Fabrice Valognes | 1999 | Geometry, Voting, and Paradoxes | |
| Victor Klee and John R. Reay | 1999 | A Surprising but Easily Proved Geometric Decomposition Theorem | |
| Dan Kalman, Robert Mena, and Shahriar Shahriari | 1998 | Variations on an Irrational Theme-Geometry, Dynamics, Algebra | |
| Lin Tan | 1997 | The Group of Rational Points on the Unit Circle | |
| Colm Mulcahy | 1997 | Plotting and Scheming with Wavelets | |
| Daniel J. Velleman and Gregory S. Call | 1996 | Permutations and Combination Locks | |
| Judith Grabiner | 1996 | Descartes and Problem-Solving | |
| Tristan Needham | 1995 | The Geometry of Harmonic Functions | |
| Lee Badgett | 1995 | Lazzarini's Lucky Approximation of pi | |
| Joan P. Hutchinson | 1994 | Coloring Ordinary Maps, Maps of Empires, and Maps of the Moon | |
| Xun-Cheng Huang | 1993 | From Intermediate Value Theorem to Chaos | |
| David Logothetti | 1992 | Cube Slices, Pictorial Triangles, and Probability | |
| Israel Kleiner | 1992 | Rigor and Proof in Mathematics: A Historical Perspective | |
| Gulbank D. Chakerian | 1992 | Cube Slices, Pictorial Triangles, and Probability | |
| Ranjan Roy | 1991 | The Discovery of the Series Formula for π by Leibniz, Gregory, and Nilakantha | |
| Ronald L. Graham | 1990 | ||
| Martin Gardner | 1990 | ||
| Fan Chung | 1990 | Steiner Trees on a Checkerboard | |
| Thomas Archibald | 1990 | Connectivity and Smoke-Rings: Green's Second Identity in Its First Fifty Years | |
| Kenneth C. Millett | 1989 | ||
| W.B. Raymond Lickorish | 1989 | The New Polynomial Invariants of Knots and Links | |
| Judith Grabiner | 1989 | The Centrality of Mathematics in the History of Western Thought | |
| Steven Galovich | 1988 | Products of Sines and Cosines | |
| Bart Braden | 1988 | Pólya's Geometric Picture of Complex Contour Integrals | |
| Paul Zorn | 1987 | The Bieberbach Conjecture | |
| Israel Kleiner | 1987 | The Evolution of Group Theory: A Brief Survey | |
| Saul Stahl | 1986 | The Other Map Coloring Theorem | |
| Bart Braden | 1986 | Design of an Oscillating Sprinkler | |
| Philip D. Straffin, Jr. | 1985 | Parliamentary Coalitions: A Tour of Models | |
| Bernard Grofman | 1985 | ||
| Frederick S. Gass | 1985 | Constructive Ordinal Notation Systems | |
| Judith Grabiner | 1984 | The Changing Concept of Change: The Derivative from Fermat to Weierstrass | |
| Clifford Wagner | 1983 | A Generic Approach to Iterative Methods | |
| Donald Koehler | 1983 | Mathematics and Literature | |
| Marjorie Senechal | 1982 | Which Tetrahedra Fill Space? | |
| J. Ian Richards | 1982 | Continued Fractions without Tears | |
| Donald E. Sanderson | 1981 | Advanced Plane Topology from an Elementary Standpoint | |
| Stephen B. Maurer | 1981 | The King Chicken Theorems | |
| Ernst Snapper | 1980 | The Three Crises in Mathematics: Logicism, Intuitionism, and Formalism | |
| Victor Klee | 1980 | Some Unsolved Problems in Plane Geometry | |
| Doris Schattschneider | 1979 | Tiling the Plane with Congruent Pentagons | |
| Bruce C. Berndt | 1979 | Ramanujan's Notebooks | |
| David A. Smith | 1978 | Human Population Growth: Stability or Explosion? | |
| Geoffrey C. Shephard | 1978 | Tilings by Regular Polygons | |
| Branko Grünbaum | 1978 | ||
| B.L. van der Waerden | 1977 | Hamilton's Discovery of Quaternions | |
| Joseph A. Gallian | 1977 | The Search for Finite Simple Groups |