Chauvenet Prize

Check all the winners of Chauvenet Prize.
Year Winner Winner Work
2013 Robert Ghrist For his work, Barcodes: The Persistent Topology of Data.
2012 Dennis DeTurck For their work, The Four Vertex Theorem and Its Converse.
Herman Gluck For their work, The Four Vertex Theorem and Its Converse.
Daniel Pomerleano For their work, The Four Vertex Theorem and Its Converse.
David Shea Vela-Vick For their work, The Four Vertex Theorem and Its Converse.
2011 Bjorn Poonen For his article Undecidability in number theory.
2010 Brian J. McCartin For his work, e: The Master of All.
2009 Harold P. Boas For an outstanding article on a mathematical topic.
2008 Andrew Granville For his paper It is easy to determine whether a given integer is prime.
2007 Andrew J. Simoson For his writing The Gravity of Hades.
2006 Florian Pfender For their paper on Kissing Numbers, Sphere Packings, and Some Unexpected Proofs.
Günter M. Ziegler For their paper on Kissing Numbers, Sphere Packings, and Some Unexpected Proofs.
2005 John Stillwell For his article \u201CThe Story of the 120-Cell.
2004 Edward Burger For his writing Diophantine Olympics and World Champions: Polynomials and Primes Down Under.
2003 Thomas Callister Hales For his article, Cannonballs and Honeycombs.
2002 Ellen Gethner For mathematical exposition in 2002 for their 1998 paper,A Stroll through the Gaussian Primes.
Stan Wagon For mathematical exposition in 2002 for their 1998 paper,A Stroll through the Gaussian Primes.
Brian Wick For mathematical exposition in 2002 for their 1998 paper,A Stroll through the Gaussian Primes.
2001 Carolyn S. Gordon You Can't Hear The Shape of a Drum
(For their 1996 American Scientist paper, You can't hear the shape of a drum.)
David Webb You Can't Hear The Shape of a Drum
(For their 1996 American Scientist paper, You can't hear the shape of a drum.)
2000 Don Zagier For his work, Newman's Short Proof of the Prime Number Theorem.
1999 Michael Rosen For his essay Niels Hendrik Abel and equations of the fifth degree.
1998 Alan Edelman For their work, How Many Zeros of a Random Polynomial are Real?
Eric Kostlan For their work, How Many Zeros of a Random Polynomial are Real?
1997 Tom Hawkins For his work, The Birth of Lie's Theory of Groups .
1996 Joan Birman For her work, New Points of View in Knot Theory.
1995 D. Saari For his work, A Visit to the Newtonian N-body Problem via Elementary Complex Variables.
1994 Barry Mazur For his work, Number Theory as Gadfly.
1993 David Harold Bailey For their writing Ramanujan, Modular Equations, and Approximations to Pi, or, How to Compute One Billion Digits of Pi.
Jonathan Borwein For their writing Ramanujan, Modular Equations, and Approximations to Pi, or, How to Compute One Billion Digits of Pi.
Peter Borwein For their writing Ramanujan, Modular Equations, and Approximations to Pi, or, How to Compute One Billion Digits of Pi.
1992 Steven G. Krantz For his writing What is Several Complex Variables?.
1991 W. B. Raymond Lickoris For their writing The New Polynomial Invariants of Knots and Links.
Kenneth C. Millett For their writing The New Polynomial Invariants of Knots and Links.
1990 David Allen Hoffman For his writing The Computer-Aided Discovery of New Embedded Minimal Surfaces.
1989 Nicholas Jacob Korevaar For an essay on Louis de Branges de Bourcia's proof of the Bieberbach conjecture.
1988 Stephen Smale For his work entitled, On the Efficiency of Algorithms in Analysis.
1987 James H. Wilkinson For his article, The Perfidious Polynomial.
1986 George Miel For his article entiitled, Of Calculations Past and Present: The Archimedean Algorithm.
1985 Carl Pomerance For his work, Recent Developments in Primality Testing.
1984 R. Arthur Knoebel For his work, Exponentials Reiterated.
1983
1982
1981 Kenneth I. Gross For his work, On the Evolution of Noncommutative Harmonic Analysis.
1980 Heinz Bauer For his paper entitled, Approximation and Abstract Boundaries.
1979 Neil Sloane For his work, Error-Correcting Codes and Invariant Theory: New Applications of a Nineteenth-Century Technique.
1978 Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar For his work entitled, Historical Ramblings in Algebraic Geometry and Related Algebra.
1977 Gilbert Strang For his work, Piecewise Polynomials and the Finite Element Method.
1976 Lawrence Zalcman For his work, Real Proofs of Complex Theorems (and vice versa).
1975 Martin Davis For their work, Hilbert's 10th Problem.
Reuben Hersh For their work, Hilbert's 10th Problem.
1974 Peter Lax For his paper, The Formation and Decay of Shock Waves.
1973 C. D. Olds For his writing The Simple Continued Fraction Expansion of e.
1972 Jean Francois Treves For his writing On Local Solvability of Linear Partial Differential Equations.
1971 Norman Levinson For his paper A Motivated Account of an Elementary Proof of the Prime Number Theorem.
1970 Shiing-Shen Chern For his writing Curves and Surfaces in Euclidean Space.
1969
1968 Mark Kac For his work, Can One Hear the Shape of a Drum?
1967 Guido Weiss For his book Harmonic Analysis.
1966
1965 Joseph P. LaSalle For their work, Differential Equations: Linearity vs. Nonlinearity.
Jack K. Hale For their work, Differential Equations: Linearity vs. Nonlinearity.
1964 Leon Henkin For his work, Are Mathematics and Logic Identical?
1963 Philip J. Davis For an article Leonhard Euler's Integral: An Historical Profile of the Gamma Function.
1962
1961
1960 Cornelius Lanczos For his writing Linear Systems in Self-Adjoint Form.
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1956 R. H. Bruck For his article Recent Advances in the Foundations of Euclidean Plane Geometry.
1955
1954
1953 E. J. McShane For his writing Partial Orderings and Moore-Smith Limits.
1952
1951
1950 Mark Kac For his writing Random Walk and the Theory of Brownian Motion.
1949
1948
1947 Paul Halmos For his work, The Foundations of Probability.
1946
1945
1944 R.H. Cameron For his work, Some Introductory Exercises in the Manipulation of Fourier Transforms.
1943
1942
1941 Saunders Mac Lane For his writing Modular Fields and Some Recent Advances in Algebra.
1940
1939
1938 Gordon Thomas Whyburn For his work, On the Structure of Continua.
1937
1936
1935 Dunham Jackson 'For his works, The Convergence of Fourier Series, Series of Orthogonal Polynomials and Orthogonal Trigonometric Sums.
1934
1933
1932 G. H. Hardy For his work, An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers.
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1930
1929 T. H. Hildebrandt For his 1926 expository article The Borel theorem and its generalizations.
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1925 Gilbert Ames Bliss For his article Algebraic functions and their divisors, which culminated in his 1933 book Algebraic functions.