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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:
[1]
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
The recipients of the Lester R. Ford Award are:
[1]
[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
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