George Pólya Prize Explained
The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) has three prizes named after George Pólya: the George Pólya Prize for Mathematical Exposition,[1] established in 2013; the George Pólya Prize in Applied Combinatorics,[2] established in 1969, and first awarded in 1971; and the George Pólya Prize in Mathematics,[3] established in 1992, to complement the exposition and applied combinatorics prizes.
Frank Harary and William T. Tutte donated money to establish the original 1969 prize in combinatorics.[4] Currently, funding for the three SIAM prizes is provided by the estate of Stella Pólya, the wife of George Pólya.
Combinatorics Winners
- 1971 Ronald L. Graham, Klaus Leeb, B. L. Rothschild, A. W. Hales, and R. I. Jewett
- 1975 Richard P. Stanley, Endre Szemerédi, and Richard M. Wilson
- 1979 László Lovász
- 1983 Anders Björner and Paul Seymour
- 1987 Andrew Yao
- 1992 Gil Kalai and Saharon Shelah
- 1994 Gregory Chudnovsky and Harry Kesten
- 1996 Jeff Kahn and David Reimer
- 1998 Percy Deift, Xin Zhou, and Peter Sarnak
- 2000 Noga Alon
- 2002 Craig Tracy and Harold Widom
- 2004 Neil Robertson and Paul Seymour
- 2006 Gregory F. Lawler, Oded Schramm, Wendelin Werner
- 2012 Vojtěch Rödl and Mathias Schacht
- 2014 Adam Marcus, Daniel Spielman and Nikhil Srivastava
- 2016 Jozsef Balogh, Robert Morris, and Wojciech Samotij, David Saxton and Andrew Thomason
- 2018 No Award Given
- 2021 Assefaw Gebremedhin, Fredrik Manne, Alex Pothen
- 2022 Antti Kupiainen, Rémi Rhodes, Vincent Vargas
(List of winners from Pólya Prize page at SIAM website.)
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: George Pólya Prize for Mathematical Exposition . SIAM . 2017-05-26 . 2022-09-22.
- Web site: George Pólya Prize in Applied Combinatorics . SIAM . 2017-05-26 . 2022-09-22.
- Web site: George Pólya Prize in Mathematics . SIAM . 2017-05-26 . 2022-09-22.
- Book: Alexanderson, Gerald L. . The Random Walks of George Pólya . Mathematical Association of America . [Washington, DC] . 2000 . 0-88385-528-3 . 43814484 .
