The Department of Mathematics at Columbia University has presented a Professor Van Amringe Mathematical Prize each year (since 1910). The prize was established in 1910 by George G. Dewitt, Class of 1867. It was named after John Howard Van Amringe, who taught mathematics at Columbia (holding a professorship from 1865 to 1910), was the first Dean of Columbia College, and was the first president of the American Mathematical Society (between 1888 and 1890).
For many years, the prize was awarded to the freshman or sophomore mathematics student at Columbia College deemed most proficient in the mathematical subjects designated during the year of the award. More recently (since 2003), the prize has been awarded to three Columbia College students majoring in math (a freshman, a sophomore, and a junior) who are deemed proficient in their class in the mathematical subjects designated during the year of the award.
| Year | Recipients | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Rafay Abbas Ashary ('24), Noah Bergam ('25), Hao Cui ('26), Zheheng Xiao ('25)[1] | |
| 2022 | Kevin Zhang ('25), Carter Teplica ('23), Zheheng Xiao ('25), David Chen ('23)[2] | |
| 2021 | Elena Gribelyuk ('22), Jacob Weinstein ('22), David Chen ('23), Aiden Sagerman ('24)[3] | |
| 2020 | Christian Serio ('21), Anda Tenie ('22), Gregory Pershing ('22), Rafay Ashary ('23)[4] | |
| 2019 | Quang Dao ('20), Myeonhu Kim ('20), Anda Tenie ('22)[5] | |
| 2018 | Quang Dao ('20), Myeonhu Kim ('20), Matthew Lerner-Brecher ('20)[6] | |
| 2017 | Quang Dao ('20), Vu-Anh Phung ('19), Noah Miller ('18)[7] | |
| 2016 | Nguyen Dung ('18), Srikar Varadaraj ('17)[8] | |
| 2015 | Nguyen Dung ('18), Hardik Shah ('17), Samuel Nicoll ('16)[9] | |
| 2014 | Hardik Shah ('17), Samuel Nicoll ('16), Yifei Zhao ('15)[10] | |
| 2013 | Ha-Young Shin ('16), Yifei Zhao ('15), Sicong Zhang ('14)[11] | |
| 2012 | Yifei Zhao ('15), Sicong Zhang ('14), Sung Chul Park ('13)[12] | |
| 2011 | Sicong Zhang ('14), Sung Chul Park ('13), Shenjun Xu ('12)[13] | |
| 2010 | Sung Park ('13), Shenjun Xu ('12), Samuel Beck ('11)[14] | |
| 2009 | Shenjun Xu ('12), Jiayang Jiang ('11), Atanas Atanasov ('10)[15] | |
| 2008 | Andra Liana Mihali ('11), Atanas Atanasov ('10), So Eun Park ('09)[16] | |
| 2007 | Atanas Atanasov ('10), So Eun Park ('09), Dmytro Karabash ('08)[17] | |
| 2006 | Vedant Misra ('09), Dmytro Karabash ('08) and Mikhail Shklyar ('08), Ilya Vinogradov ('07)[18] | |
| 2005 | Mikhail Shklyar ('08), Ilya Vinogradov ('07), Florian Sprung ('06)[19] | |
| 2004 | Ilya Vinogradov ('07) | |
| 2003 | Mark Xue ('06), Kiril Datchev ('05), Jay Heumann ('05)[20] | |
| 2002 | Kiril Datchev ('05)[21] | |
| 2001 | Vladislav Shchogolev ('04) and Eric Patterson ('03)[22] | |
| 2000 | David Anderson ('02) and Ari Stern ('01) | |
| 1990 | Ali Yegulalp ('90) | |
| 1988 | Ali Yegulalp ('90) | |
| 1987 | Ali Yegulalp ('90) | |
| 1979 | Sahotra Sarkar ('81) | |
| 1976 | Chris Tong ('78) | |
| 1967 | Louis Halle Rowen ('69) | |
| 1964 | Sylvain Cappell ('66)[23] | |
| 1937 | Jerome Kurshan ('39)[24] | |
| 1922 | Melvin David Baller ('24) and Benedict Kurshan ('24)[25] | |
| 1921 | Wilfred Francis Skeats ('23)[26] | |
| 1917 | Israel Koral ('20)[27] |