Levi L. Conant Prize Explained

The Levi L. Conant Prize is a mathematics prize of the American Mathematical Society, which has been awarded since 2001 for outstanding expository papers published in the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society or the Notices of the American Mathematical Society in the past five years. The award is worth $1,000 and is awarded annually.

The award is named after Levi L. Conant (1857–1916), a professor at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, known as the author of anthropological mathematics book "The number concept" (1896). He left the AMS $10,000 for the foundation of the award bearing his name in 2000.

Winners

Source: American Mathematical Society

• 2024: Jennifer Hom for her article "Getting a handle on the Conway knot," Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 59 (2021), 19–29
• 2023: Joshua Greene for Heegaard Floer homology . Notices of the AMS . 68 . 2021 . 1 . 19–33 . 10.1090/noti2194 . Greene . Joshua . free .
• 2022: for Five Stages of Accepting Constructive Mathematics . Bulletin of the AMS . 54 . 2017 . 3 . 481–498 . 10.1090/bull/1556 . Bauer . Andrej . free .
• 2021: Dan Margalit for the article "The Mathematics of Joan Birman," Notices of the AMS, 66 (2019), 341–353
• 2020: Amie Wilkinson for the article "What are Lyapunov exponents, and why are they interesting?", Bulletin of the AMS, Volume 54, January 2017, Pages 79–105
• 2019: Alex Wright for From rational billiards to dynamics on moduli spaces . Bulletin of the AMS . 53 . 2016 . 41–56 .
• 2018: Henry Cohn for A Conceptual Breakthrough in Sphere Packing . Notices of the AMS . 64 . 2017 . 2 . 102–15 . 10.1090/noti1474 . Cohn . Henry . free .
• 2017: David H. Bailey, Jonathan Borwein, Andrew Mattingly, and Glenn Wightwick for The Computation of Previously Inaccessible Digits of π2 and Catalan's Constant . Notices of the AMS . 2013 .
• 2016: Daniel Rothman for Earth's Carbon Cycle: A Mathematical Perspective . Bulletin of the AMS . 52 . 2015 . 86–102 .
• 2015: Jeffrey Lagarias and Zong Chuanming for Mysteries in Packing Regular Tetrahedra . Notices of the AMS . 59 . 11 . 2012 . 1540–1549 .
• 2014: Alex Kontorovich for From Apollonius to Zaremba: Local-global phenomena in thin orbits . Bulletin of the AMS . 50 . 2013 . 187–228 . 10.1090/S0273-0979-2013-01402-2 . 15496675 . Kontorovich . Alex . 2 . free .
• 2013: John C. Baez and John Huerta, for The algebra of grand unified theories . . 47 . 2010 . 3 . 483–552 . 10.1090/S0273-0979-10-01294-2 . 0904.1556 . Baez . John . Huerta . John . 2941843 .
• 2012: Persi Diaconis for The Markov chain Monte Carlo revolution . Bulletin of the AMS . 46 . 2009 . 179–205 .
• 2011: David Vogan for The Character Table for E8 . Notices of the AMS . 54 . 2007 . 1122–1134 .
• 2010: Bryna Kra for The Green–Tao Theorem on arithmetic progressions in the primes: an ergodic point of view . Bulletin of the AMS . 43 . 2006 . 3–23 .
• 2009: John Morgan for Recent Progress on the Poincaré Conjecture and the Classification of 3-Manifolds . Bulletin of the AMS . 42 . 2005 . 57–78 .
• 2008: J. Brian Conrey for The Riemann Hypothesis . Notices of the AMS . 50 . 2003 . 3 . 341–353 . . and Shlomo Hoory, Nathan Linial, Avi Wigderson for Expander graphs and their applications . Bulletin of the AMS . 43 . 2006 . 4 . 439–561 . 10.1090/S0273-0979-06-01126-8 . Hoory . Shlomo . Linial . Nathan . Wigderson . Avi . free .
• 2007: Jeffrey Weeks for The Poincare Dodecahedral Space and the Mystery of the Missing Fluctuations . Notices of the AMS . 51 . 2004 . 6 . 610–619 .
• 2006: Ronald Solomon for A Brief History of the Classification of the Finite Simple Groups . Bulletin of the AMS . 38 . 2001 . 3 . 315–352 . 10.1090/S0273-0979-01-00909-0 . Solomon . Ronald . free .
• 2005: Allen Knutson, Terence Tao for Honeycombs and Sums of Hermitian Matrices . Notices of the AMS . 48 . 2001 . 175–186 .
• 2004: Noam Elkies for "Lattices, Linear Codes, and Invariants." Notices of the AMS, Vol. 47, 2000, Part 1: No. 10, pg. 1238–45; Part 2: No. 11, pg. 1382–91.
• 2003: Nicholas Katz, Peter Sarnak for Zeroes of zeta functions and symmetry . Bulletin of the AMS . 36 . 1999 . 1–26 . 10.1090/S0273-0979-99-00766-1 . Katz . Nicholas . Sarnak . Peter . free .
• 2002: Elliott Lieb and Jakob Yngvason for A Guide to Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics . Notices of the AMS . 45 . 1998 . 5 . 571–581 .
• 2001: Carl Pomerance for A Tale of Two Sieves . Notices of the AMS . 43 . 12 . 1996 . 1473–1485 .

See also

• List of mathematics awards

References

The original article was a translation of the corresponding German article.

• The prize website