Paul R. Halmos – Lester R. Ford Award Explained
The Paul R. Halmos – Lester R. Ford Award (formerly known as the Lester R. Ford Award) is a $1,000 prize given annually by the Mathematical Association of America for authors of articles of expository excellence published in The American Mathematical Monthly or Mathematics Magazine.[1] It is awarded to at most four authors each year.[1] The prize was established in 1964 as the Lester R. Ford Award to honor the contributions of mathematician and former MAA president Lester R. Ford.[1] In 2012 the award was renamed the Paul R. Halmos – Lester R. Ford Award to honor the contributions of former The American Mathematical Monthly editor Paul R. Halmos and the support of the Halmos family for the awards.[1] Halmos himself received the award in 1971 and 1977.
Recipients
The recipients of the Paul R. Halmos – Lester R. Ford Award are:
- 2022: William Dunham
- 2022: Jan E. Holly
- 2022: Dominic Klyve and Erik R. Tou
- 2022: David Lowry-Duda and Miles H. Wheeler
- 2021: J. H. Conway, M. S. Paterson, and Moscow (U.S.S.R.)
- 2021: Brian S. Thomson
- 2021: Zhaodong Cai, Matthew Faust, A. J. Hildebrand, Junxian Li, and Yuan Zhang
- 2021: Ben Blum-Smith and Japheth Wood
- 2020: Daniel Ullman and Daniel Velleman
- 2020: Colin Adams, Allison Henrich, Kate Kearney, and Nicholas Scoville
- 2020: John B. Little
- 2020: Balázs Gerencsér and Viktor Harangi
- 2019: Adrian Rice
- 2019: Jonathan Borwein and Robert M. Corless
- 2019: Andrew Granville
- 2019: Kenneth S. Williams
- 2018: Paul E. Becker, Martin Derka, Sheridan Houghten and Jennifer Ulrich
- 2018: Maria Deijfen, Alexander E. Holroyd and James B. Martin
- 2018: Francis E. Su
- 2018: Michael Barnsley and Andrew Vince
- 2017: Deborah Kent and David Muraki
- 2017: Adrien Kassel and David B. Wilson
- 2017: Lawrence Zalcman
- 2017: Harold P. Boas
- 2016: Zhiqin Lu and Julie Rowlett
- 2016: Manya Raman-Sundström
- 2016: Kenneth S. Williams
- 2016: Alex Chin, Gary Gordon, Kellie MacPhee, and Charles Vincent
- 2015: Mario Ponce and Patricio Santibanez
- 2015: Erwan Brugallé and Kristin Shaw
- 2015: Daniel Velleman
- 2015: Allison Henrich and Louis H Kauffman
- 2014: Will Traves
- 2014: Susan H. Marshall and Alexander R. Perlis
- 2014: Jacques Lévy Véhel and Franklin Mendivil
- 2014: Tadashi Tokieda
- 2013: Robert T. Jantzen and Klaus Volpert
- 2013: Lionel Levine and Katherine E. Stange
- 2013: Dimitris Koukoulopoulos and Johann Thiel
- 2013: Dan Kalman and Mark McKinzie
The recipients of the Lester R. Ford Award are:[2]
- 2012: David A. Cox
- 2012: Graham Everest and Tom Ward
- 2012: Peter Sarnak
- 2012: Ravi Vakil
- 2011: Aaron Abrams and Skip Garibaldi
- 2011: Alexander Borisov, Mark Dickinson, and Stuart Hastings
- 2011: James T. Smith
- 2011: Mark Conger and Jason Howald
- 2011: Marvin Jay Greenberg
- 2010: Bob Palais, Richard Palais, and Stephen Rodi
- 2010: Jerzy Kocik and Andrzej Solecki
- 2010: Judith Grabiner
- 2010: Mike Paterson and Uri Zwick
- 2010: Tom M. Apostol and Mamikon A. Mnatsakanian
- 2009: Andrew Bashelor, Amy Ksir, and Will Traves
- 2009: Andrew Granville
- 2009: Dan Kalman
- 2009: Michel Balinski
- 2008: Andrew Cohen and Tanya Leise
- 2008: David Auckly
- 2008: Katherine Socha
- 2008: Thomas C. Hales
- 2008: Tom M. Apostol and Mamikon A. Mnatsakanian
- 2007: Andrew Granville and Greg Martin
- 2007: Harold P. Boas
- 2007: Jeffrey C. Lagarias
- 2007: Lluís Bibiloni, Jaume Paradís, and Pelegrí Viader
- 2007: Michael J. Mossinghoff
- 2006: Edward B. Burger
- 2006: Ibetsam Bajunaid, Joel M. Cohen, Flavia Colonna, and David Singman
- 2006: Karl Dilcher and Kenneth B. Stolarsky
- 2006: Viktor Blåsjö
- 2006: William Dunham
- 2005: Alan Edelman and Gilbert Strang
- 2005: Henry Cohn
- 2005: Judith Grabiner
- 2005: Steven Finch and John Wetzel
- 2005: Tom Apostol and Mamikon Mnatsakanian
- 2004: Charles Livingston
- 2004: Noam Elkies
- 2004: R. Michael Range
- 2004: Ruediger Thiele
- 2003: Eleanor Robson
- 2003: Leonard Gillman
- 2003: Sam Northshield
- 2003: Sergio B. Volchan
- 2003: Warren P. Johnson
- 2002: David Lindsay Roberts
- 2002: Dirk Huylebrouck
- 2002: Greg Martin
- 2002: Peter Borwein & Loki Jorgenson
- 2001: E.R. Scheinerman
- 2001: Keith Kendig
- 2000: P.J. McKenna
- 2000: Vilmos Totik
- 2000: William Terrell
- 1999: Bernd Sturmfels
- 1999: Jerry L. Kazdan
- 1999: Yoav Benyamini
- 1998: Bruce Pourciau
- 1998: Judith V. Grabiner
- 1998: S. C. Coutinho
- 1997: Alan F. Beardon
- 1997: John Brillhart and Patrick Morton
- 1997: Robert G. Bartle
- 1996: John Oprea
- 1996: Martin Aigner
- 1996: Sheldon Axler
- 1995: Fernando Q. Gouvea
- 1995: Israel Kleiner
- 1995: Jonathan L. King
- 1995: N. Movshovitz-Hadar
- 1995: Robert Gray
- 1995: William C. Waterhouse
- 1994: Bruce C. Berndt
- 1994: Dan Velleman
- 1994: Edgar R. Lorch
- 1994: Istvan Szalkai
- 1994: Joseph H. Silverman
- 1994: Leonard Gillman
- 1994: Reuben Hersh
- 1994: S. Bhargava
- 1993: Carsten Thomassen
- 1993: Donald E. Knuth
- 1992: Clement W.H. Lam
- 1991: Edward Scheinerman
- 1991: Frances Yao
- 1991: Joyce Justicz
- 1991: Marcel Y. Berger
- 1991: Peter Winkler
- 1991: Ronald L. Graham
- 1990: Chee K. Yap
- 1990: Doron Zeilberger
- 1990: Jacob Goodman
- 1990: Janos Pach
- 1989: Bruce C. Berndt
- 1989: Gert Almkvist
- 1989: Richard Guy
- 1988: James Epperson
- 1988: Stan Wagon
- 1987: David Yost
- 1987: Howard Hiller
- 1987: Jacob Korevaar
- 1987: Joan Cleary
- 1987: Peter Neumann
- 1987: Sidney Morris
- 1987: Stuart S. Antman
- 1986: Jeffrey Lagarias
- 1986: Michael Taylor
- 1985: Donald G. Saari
- 1985: John B. Urenko
- 1985: John D. Dixon
- 1984: Joel Spencer
- 1984: John W. Milnor
- 1984: Judith Grabiner
- 1984: Roger E. Howe
- 1984: William C. Waterhouse
- 1983: Robert F. Brown
- 1983: Robert S. Strichartz
- 1983: Tony Rothman
- 1982: Philip J. Davis
- 1982: R. Arthur Knoebel
- 1981: Alan H. Schoenfeld
- 1981: Bruce H. Pourciau
- 1981: Edward R. Swart
- 1981: Lawrence A. Zalcman
- 1981: R. Creighton Buck
- 1980: Cathleen S. Morawetz
- 1980: David Gale
- 1980: Desmond P. Fearnley-Sander
- 1980: Karel Hrbacek
- 1980: Robert Osserman
- 1979: Bradley Efron
- 1979: Joseph B. Kruskal
- 1979: Kenneth I. Gross
- 1979: Lawrence A. Shepp
- 1979: Ned Glick
- 1978: Louis H. Kauffman
- 1978: Neil J.A. Sloane
- 1978: Ralph P. Boas
- 1978: Thomas F. Banchoff
- 1977: Daihachiro Sato
- 1977: Donald S. Passman
- 1977: Douglas Wiens
- 1977: Hideo Wada
- 1977: J.H. Ewing
- 1977: James P. Jones
- 1977: Joseph B. Keller
- 1977: Paul R. Halmos
- 1977: S.H. Moolgavkar
- 1977: Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar
- 1977: William H. Gustafson
- 1977: William H. Wheeler
- 1977: William P. Ziemer
- 1976: Branko Grunbaum
- 1976: David W. McLaughlin
- 1976: Edward A. Bender
- 1976: H.P. Young
- 1976: James E. Humphreys
- 1976: Jay R. Goldman
- 1976: Joseph B. Keller
- 1976: Justin J. Price
- 1976: Michel L. Balinski
- 1975: Donald E. Knuth
- 1975: J. Callahan
- 1975: Johannes C.C. Nitsche
- 1975: Lawrence A. Zalcman
- 1975: R. Ayoub
- 1975: Sherman K. Stein
- 1974: Garrett Birkhoff
- 1974: I.J. Schoenberg
- 1974: Lynn Arthur Steen
- 1974: Martin D. Davis
- 1974: Patrick Billingsley
- 1974: R.J. Wilson
- 1973: Jean A. Dieudonne
- 1973: Lynn Arthur Steen
- 1973: Peter D. Lax
- 1973: Raymond L. Wilder
- 1973: Samuel Karlin
- 1973: Thomas L. Saaty
- 1972: Frederick Cunningham, Jr.
- 1972: Gulbank D. Chakerian
- 1972: Leon Henkin
- 1972: Lester H. Lange
- 1972: Paul M. Cohn
- 1972: Victor Klee
- 1972: William J. Ellison
- 1971: Eric Langford
- 1971: George Forsythe
- 1971: Jean A. Dieudonne
- 1971: Olga Taussky
- 1971: Paul R. Halmos
- 1971: Peter V. O'Neil
- 1970: Henry L. Alder
- 1970: Ivan Niven
- 1970: John W. Milnor
- 1970: Norman Levinson
- 1970: Ralph P. Boas
- 1970: William A. Coppel
- 1969: Albert Wilansky
- 1969: George Forsythe
- 1969: Harley Flanders
- 1969: Hassler Whitney
- 1969: Marcel F. Neuts
- 1969: Pierre Samuel
- 1968: Daniel Pedoe
- 1968: Frederick Cunningham, Jr.
- 1968: Hans J. Zassenhaus
- 1968: Keith L. Phillips
- 1968: Margaret Maxfield and F. V. Waugh
- 1968: W.F. Newns
- 1967: D.R. Fulkerson
- 1967: M.Z. Nashed
- 1967: Mark Kac
- 1967: Paul B. Yale
- 1967: Wai-Kai Chen
- 1966: Carl B. Allendoerfer
- 1966: Henryk Minc
- 1966: Marvin Marcus
- 1966: Peter D. Lax
- 1965: Elmer Tolsted
- 1965: Hartley Rogers, Jr.
- 1965: Louis Brand
- 1965: R. Duncan Luce
- 1965: R.H. Bing
- 1965: Robert G. Kuller
See also
External links
Notes and References
- https://www.maa.org/programs/maa-awards/writing-awards/paul-halmos-lester-ford-awards Paul R. Halmos – Lester R. Ford Awards
- Book: Recognizing excellence in the mathematical sciences : an international compilation of awards, prizes, and recipients. 1997. JAI Press. Jaguszewski, Janice M.. 0762302356. Greenwich, Conn.. 37513025.
