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{{Not to be confused with|Pólya Prize}}
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The '''George Pólya Award''' is a mathematical prize established in 1976 and awarded since 1977 by the [[Mathematical Association of America]] (MAA) for especially elegant articles published in the MAA-edited ''College Mathematics Journal''. The award, named for the famous mathematician [[George Pólya]], is awarded up to twice yearly with a monetary payment of 500 U.S. dollars.<ref>[http://www.maa.org/awards/polya.html George Pólya Award of the MAA] (At this website most of the award-winning articles are openly accessible.)</ref>


The '''George Pólya Award''' is presented annually by the [[Mathematical Association of America]] (MAA) for articles of expository excellence that have been published in The [[College Mathematics Journal]]. The award was established in 1976 and up to two awards of $1,000 each are given in each year.<ref name=maa>{{Cite web|url = https://maa.org/george-polya-awards/ |title = George Pólya Awards {{!}} Mathematical Association of America|website = www.maa.org}}</ref><ref>An exception was made in 1983 when three awards were given.</ref> The award is named after Hungarian mathematician [[George Pólya]].
== List of prize winners ==

{| class="prettytable"
== Recipients ==
! width="10%“ | '''Year'''
Recipients of the George Pólya Award have included:<ref>{{Cite book|title=Recognizing excellence in the mathematical sciences : an international compilation of awards, prizes, and recipients|date=1997|publisher=JAI Press|others=Jaguszewski, Janice M.|isbn=0762302356|location=Greenwich, Conn.|oclc=37513025}}</ref><ref name=maa/>
! width="30%“ | '''Prize winner(s)'''

! width="60%“ | '''Article'''
{| class="wikitable"
!Year
!Recipient
!Article
|-
| 2023
| William Q. Erickson
| Haste Makes Waste: An Optimization Problem
|-
| 2023
| Johnner Barrett
| Unlawful Calculations: A Look into Lie’s Notebook
|-
| 2022
| Joseph Previte and Michelle Previte
| The Beautiful Chaotic Dynamics of iz
|-
| 2022
| Adrian Rice and [[Ezra Brown]]
| Why Hamilton Couldn’t Multiply Triples
|-
| 2021
| Holly Middleton-Spencer and James Christian
| On the Nth Roots of -1 and Complex Basin Boundaries: Fractals from Newton-Raphson
|-
| 2021
| Adam Hammett
| Euler's Limit and Stirling's Estimate
|-
| 2020
| Adam Glesser, Matt Rathbun, Isabel M. Serrano, [[Bogdan Suceavă]]
| Eclectic Illuminism: Applications of Affine Geometry
|-
| 2020
| Christopher J. Catone
| Bringing Calculus into Discrete Math via the Discrete Derivative
|-
| 2019
| Stanley R. Huddy and Michael A. Jones
| The Calculus Behind Generic Drug Equivalence
|-
| 2019
| Peter McGrath
| Newton’s Shell Theorem via Archimedes’ Hat Box and Single Variable Calculus
|-
| 2018
| Ben Blum-Smith and Samuel Coskey
| Fundamental Theorem on Symmetric Polynomials: History’s First Whiff of Galois Theory
|-
| 2018
| Stephen Kaczkowski
| Mathematical Models for Global Mean Sea Level Rise
|-
| 2017
| Viktor Blåsjö
| How to Find the Logarithm of Any Number Using Nothing But a Piece of String
|-
| 2017
| Travis Kowalski
| The Sine of a Single Degree
|-
| 2016
| Gordon Hamilton, [[Kiran S. Kedlaya]], and Henri Picciotto
| Square-Sum Pair Partitions
|-
| 2016
| Hassan Boualem and Robert Brouzet
| To Be (a Circle) or Not To Be?
|-
| 2015
| Michael Brilleslyper and Lisbeth Schaubroeck
| Locating Unimodular Roots
|-
| 2015
| David Joyner
| The Man Who Found God's Number
|-
| 2014
| Adam E. Parker
| Who Solved the Bernoulli Differential Equation and How Did They Do It?
|-
| 2014
| [[Christiane Rousseau]]
| How [[Inge Lehmann]] Discovered the Inner Core of the Earth
|-
| 2013
| Jacob Siehler
| The Finite Lamplighter Groups: A Guided Tour
|-
|-
| 2013
| 2012 || [[T.S. Michael]] || ''Guards, Galleries, Fortresses, and the Octoplex'', Vol. 42:3 (2011), 191-200.
| [[David Applegate]], Marc LeBrun, and [[Neil J. A. Sloane]]
| Carryless Arithmetic Mod 10
|-
|-
| 2012
| 2012 || [[Leslie A. Cheteyan]], [[Stewart Hengeveld]], [[Michael A. Jones]] || ''Chutes and Ladders for the Impatient'', Vol. 42:1 (2011), 2-8.
| Leslie A. Cheteyan, Stewart Hengveld, and Michael A. Jones
| Chutes and Ladders for the Impatient
|-
|-
| 2012
|2011 || [[Jonathan K. Hodge]], [[Emily Marshall]], [[Geoff Patterson]] || ''Gerrymandering and Convexity'', Vol. 41:4 (2010), 312-324
| T. S. Michael
| Guards, Galleries, Fortresses, and the Octoplex
|-
|-
| 2011
|2011 || [[John Martin (Mathematician)|John Martin]] || ''The Helen of Geometry'', Vol. 41:1 (2010), 17–27.
| Jonathan K. Hodge, Emily Marshall, and Geoff Patterson
| Gerrymandering and Convexity
|-
|-
| 2011
|2010 || Andrew Barker || ''Evolutionary Stability in the Traveler's Dilemma'', Vol. 40:1 (2009), 33–38
| John Martin
| The Helen of Geometry
|-
|-
| 2010
|2010 || [[Curtis Feist]], [[Ramin Naimi]] || ''Topology Explains Why Automobile Sunshades Fold Oddly'', Vol. 40:2 (2009), 93-98
| Andrew Barker
| Evolutionary Stability in the Traveler's Dilemma
|-
|-
| 2010
|2009 || [[Lawrence Brenton]] || ''Remainder Wheels and Group Theory'', Vol. 39, no. 2, March 2008, 129-135
| Curtis Feist and Ramin Naimi
| Topology Explains Why Automobile Sunshades Fold Oddly
|-
|-
| 2009
|2009 || [[Greg N. Frederickson]] || ''Designing a Table Both Swinging and Stable'', Vol. 39, no. 4, September 2008, 258-266
| Lawrence Brenton
| Remainder Wheels and Group Theory
|-
|-
| 2009
|2008 || [[Roland Minton]], [[Timothy J. Pennings]] || ''Do Dogs Know Bifurcations?'', Vol. 38, no. 5, November 2007, 356-361
| Greg N. Frederickson
| Designing a Table Both Swinging and Stable
|-
|-
| 2008
|2008 || [[Andrew J. Simoson]] || ''Pursuit Curves for the Man in the Moone'', Vol. 38, no. 5, November 2007, 330-338
| Roland Minton and Timothy J. Pennings
| Do Dogs Know Bifurcations?
|-
|-
| 2008
|2007 || [[Richard Jerrard]], [[Joel Schneider]], [[Ralph Smallberg]], John Wetzel || ''Straw in a Box'', Vol. 37, March 2006, 93-102
| Andrew J. Simoson
| Pursuit Curves for the Man in the Moone
|-
|-
| 2007
|2007 || [[Allen Schwenk]] || ''Distortion of Average Class Size: The Lake Wobegon Effect'', Vol. September 2006, 293-296
| Richard Jerrard, Joel Schneider, Ralph Smallberg, and John Wetzel
| Straw in a Box
|-
|-
| 2007
|2006 || [[Ezra Brown]] || ''Phoebe Floats!'', March 2005, 114-122
| Allen Schwenk
| Distortion of Average Class Size: The Lake Wobegon Effect
|-
|-
| 2006
|2006 || [[James Sandefur]] || ''A Geometric Series from Tennis'', May 2005, 224-226
| [[Ezra Brown]]
| Phoebe Floats!
|-
|-
| 2006
|2005 || Brian Hopkins, [[Robin J. Wilson]] || ''The Truth About Königsberg'', May 2004, page 198
| James Sandefur
| A Geometric Series from Tennis
|-
|-
| 2005
|2005 || [[Stephen M. Walk]] || ''Mind Your ∃s and ∀s'', November 2004, page 362
| Brian Hopkins and [[Robin Wilson (mathematician)|Robin J. Wilson]]
| The Truth About Königsberg
|-
|-
| 2005
|2004 || [[Greg N. Frederickson]] || ''A New Wrinkle on an Old Folding Problem'', September, 2003, Vol. 34(4) pp. 258-263
| Stephen M. Walk
| Mind Your ∃s and ∀s
|-
|-
| 2004
|2003 || [[David L. Finn]] || ''Can a Bicycle Create a Unicycle Track?'', Vol. 33 (2002), 283-292
| Greg N. Frederickson
| A New Wrinkle on an Old Folding Problem
|-
|-
| 2003
|2003 || [[Dan Kalman]] || ''An Undetermined Linear System for GPS'', Vol. 33 (2002), 384-390
| David L. Finn
| Can a Bicycle Create a Unicycle Track?
|-
|-
| 2003
|2002 || [[Timothy G. Freeman]] || ''Conformality, the Exponential Function, and World Map Projections''. Vol, 32, November 2001, 334-342
| Dan Kalman
| An Underdetermined Linear System for GPS
|-
|-
| 2002
|2001 || [[Ezra A. Brown]] || ''Three Fermat Trails to Elliptic Curves'', Vol. 31, No. 3, (2000), 162-172
| Tim Freeman
| Conformality, the Exponential Function, and World Map Projections
|-
|-
| 2001
|2001 || [[Chip Ross]], [[Jody M. Sorensen]] || ''Will the Real Bifurcation Diagram Please Stand Up!'', Vol. 31, No.1, (2000), 2-14
| [[Ezra Brown]]
| Three Fermat Trails to Elliptic Curves
|-
|-
| 2001
|2000 || [[Ezra Brown]] || ''Square roots from 1;24,51,10 to Dan Shanks'', Vol. 30 (1999), 82-95
| Chip Ross and Jody Sorensen
| Will the Real Bifurcation Diagram Please Stand up!
|-
|-
| 2000
|2000 || [[Martin Gardner]] || ''The asymmetric propeller'', Vol. 30 (1999), 18-22
| [[Martin Gardner]]
| The Asymmetric Propeller
|-
|-
| 2000
|1999 || [[Aaron Klebanoff]], [[John Rickert]] || ''Studying the Cantor Dust at the Edge of the Feigenbaum Diagrams, Taco'', Vol. 29 (1998), 189-198
| [[Ezra Brown]]
| Square Roots From 1; 24, 51, 10 to Dan Shanks
|-
|-
| 1999
|1999 || [[David Bleecker]], [[Lawrence J. Wallen]] || ''The World's Biggest Taco'', Vol. 29 (1998), 2-17
| David Bleecker and Larry Wallen
| The World’s Biggest Taco
|-
|-
| 1999
|1998 || [[Kevin G. Kirby]] || ''Of Memories, Neurons, and Rank-One Corrections'', Vol. 28 (1997), 2-19
| Aaron Klebanoff and John Rickert
| Studying the Cantor Dust at the Edge of Feigenbaum Diagrams
|-
|-
| 1998
|1998 || [[Aimee Johson]], [[Kathleen Madden]] || ''Putting the Pieces Together: Understanding Robinson's Nonperiodic Tilings'', Vol. 28 (1998), 172-181
| [[Aimee Johnson]] and [[Kathleen Madden]]
| Putting the Pieces Together: Understanding Robinson’s Nonperiodic Tilings
|-
|-
| 1998
|1997 || Chris Christensen || ''Newton's Method for Ressolving Affected Equations'', Vol. 27 (1996), 330-340
| Kevin Kirby
| Of Memories, Neurons, and Rank-One Corrections
|-
|-
| 1997
|1997 || [[Leon Harkleroad]] || ''How Mathematicians Know What Computers Can't Do'', Vol. 27 (1996), 37-42
| Leon Harkleroad
| How Mathematicians Know What Computers Can’t Do
|-
|-
| 1997
|1996 || John H. Ewing || ''Can We See the Mandelbrot Set?'', Vol. 26 (1995), 90-99
| Chris Christensen and [[Shreeram S. Abhyankar]]
| Newton’s Method for Resolving Affected Equations
|-
|-
| 1996
|1996 || [[James G. Simmonds]] || ''A New Look at an Old Function, e'', Vol. 26 (1995), 6-10
| James G. Simmonds
| A New Look at an Old Function, eiθ
|-
|-
| 1996
|1995 || [[Anthony P. Ferzola]] || ''Euler and Differentials'', Vol. 25 (1994), 102-111
| John Ewing
| Can We See the Mandelbrot Set?
|-
|-
| 1995
|1995 || [[Paulo Ribenboim]] || ''Prime Number Records'', Vol. 25 (1994), 280-290
| [[Paulo Ribenboim]]
| Prime Number Records
|-
|-
| 1995
|1994 || [[Charles W. Groetsch]] || ''Inverse Problems and Torricelli's Law'', Vol. 24 (1993), 210-217
| Anthony P. Ferzola
| Euler and Differentials
|-
|-
| 1994
|1994 || [[Dan Kalman]] || ''Six Ways to Sum a Series'', Vol. 24 (1993), 402-421
| Dan Kalman
| Six Ways to Sum a Series
|-
|-
| 1994
|1993 || [[L. H. Lange]], [[J. W. Miller]] || ''A Random Ladder Game: Permutations, Eigenvalues, and Convergence of Markov Chains'',Vol. 23 (1992), 373-385
| [[Charles W. Groetsch|Charles Groetsch]]
| Inverse Problems and Torricelli’s Law
|-
|-
| 1993
|1993 || D. N. MacKenzie || ''Triquetras and Porisms'', Vol. 23 (1992), 118-131
| Dana N. Mackenzie
| Triquetras and Porisms
|-
|-
| 1993
|1992 || [[William Dunham (mathematician)|William Dunham]] || ''Euler and the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra'', Vol. 22 (1991), 282-293
| Les Lange and James W. Miller
| A Random Ladder Game: Permutations, Eigenvalues, and Convergence of Markov Chains
|-
|-
| 1992
|1992 || [[Howard Eves]] || ''Two Surprising Theorems on Cavalieri Congruence'', Vol. 22 (1991), 118-124
| [[Howard Eves]]
| Two Surprising Theorems on Cavalieri Congruence
|-
|-
| 1992
|1991 || [[William B. Gearhart]], [[Harris S. Shultz]] || ''The Function Sin x/x'', Vol. 21 (1990), 90-99
| [[William Dunham (mathematician)|William Dunham]]
| Euler and the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra
|-
|-
| 1991
|1991 || [[Mark F. Schilling]] || ''The Longest Run of Heads'', Vol. 21 (1990), 196-207
| Mark F. Schilling
| The Longest Run of Heads
|-
|-
| 1991
|1990 || [[Israel Kleiner (mathematician)|Israel Kleiner]] || ''Evolution of the Function Concept: A Brief Survey'', Vol. 20 (1989), 282-300
| William B. Gearhart and Harris S. Shultz
| The Function sin(x)/x
|-
|-
| 1990
|1990 || [[D. Neidinger]] || ''Automatic Differentiation & APL'', Vol. 20 (1989), 238-251
| [[Israel Kleiner (mathematician)|Israel Kleiner]]
| Evolution of the Function Concept: A Brief Survey
|-
|-
| 1990
|1989 || [[Beverly L. Brechner]], [[John C. Mayer]] || ''Antoine's Necklace - or How to Keep a Necklace from Falling Apart'', Vol. 19 (1988), 306-320
| D. Neidinger
| Automatic Differentiation & APL
|-
|-
| 1989
|1989 || [[Edward Rozema]] || ''Why Should We Pivot in Gaussian Elimination?'', Vol. 19 (1988), 63-72
| Edward Rozema
| Why Should We Pivot in Gaussian Elimination?
|-
|-
| 1989
|1988 || [[Dennis M. Luciano]], [[Gordon D. Pritchett]] || ''Cryptology: From Caesar Ciphers to Public-Key Cryptosystems'', Vol. 18 (1987), 2-17
| Beverly L. Brechner and John C. Mayer
| Antoine’s Necklace or How to Keep a Necklace from Falling Apart
|-
|-
| 1988
|1998 || [[V. Frederick Rickey]] || ''Isaac Newton: Man, Myth, and Mathematics'', Vol. 18, (1987), 362-389
| [[V. Frederick Rickey]]
| Isaac Newton: Man, Myth, and Mathematics
|-
|-
| 1988
|1987 || [[Irl C. Bivens]] || ''What a Tangent Line Is When It Isn't a Limit'', Vol. 17 (1986), 133-143
| Dennis Luciano and Gordon Prichett
| Cryptology: From Caesar Ciphers to Public-Key Cryptosystems
|-
|-
| 1987
|1987 || [[Constance Reid]] || ''The Autobiography of Julia Robinson'', Vol. 17 (1986), 2-21
| [[Constance Reid]]
| The Autobiography of [[Julia Robinson]]
|-
|-
| 1987
|1986 || [[Philip J. Davis]] || ''What Do I Know? A Study of Mathematical Self-Awareness'', Vol. 16 (1985), 22-41
| Irl Bivens
| What a Tangent Line Is When It Isn’t a Limit
|-
|-
| 1986
|1985 || [[Anthony Barcellos]] || ''The Fractal Geometry of Mandelbrot'', Vol. 15 (1984), 98-114
| [[Philip J. Davis]]
| What Do I Know? A Study of Mathematical Self-Awareness
|-
|-
| 1985
|1985 || [[Kay Dundas]] || ''To Build a Better Box'', Vol. 15 (1984), 30-36
| Anthony Barcellos
| The Fractal Geometry of Mandelbrot
|-
|-
| 1985
|1984 || [[Ruma Falk]], [[Maya Bar-Hillel]] || ''Probabilistic Dependence Between Events'', Vol. 14 (1983), 240-247
| Kay Dundas
| To Build a Better Box
|-
|-
| 1984
|1984 || [[Richard J. Trudeau]] || ''How Big is a Point?'', Vol. 14 (1983), 295-300
| [[Ruma Falk]] and [[Maya Bar-Hillel]]
| Probabilistic Dependence between Events
|-
|-
| 1984
|1983 || [[Paul R. Halmos]] || ''The Thrills of Abstraction'', Vol. 13 (1982), 243-251
| Richard J. Trudeau
| How Big is a Point?
|-
|-
| 1983
|1983 || [[Douglas R. Hofstadter]] || ''Analogies and Metaphors to Explain Gó's Theorem'', Vol. 13 (1982), 98-114
| Warren Page and Vedula N. Murty
| Nearness Relations among Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion: Part 1
|-
|-
| 1983
|1983 || [[Warren Page]], [[V.N. Murty]] || ''Nearness Relations Among Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion, Part 1'', Vol. 13 (1982), 315-327
| [[Douglas R. Hofstadter]]
| Analogies and Metaphors to Explain Gödel’s Theorem
|-
|-
| 1983
|1982 || [[John A. Mitchem]] || ''On the History and Solution of the Four-Color Map Problem'', Vol. 12 (1981), 108-116
| [[Paul R. Halmos]]
| The Thrills of Abstraction
|-
|-
| 1982
|1982 || [[Peter L. Renz]] || ''Mathematical Proof: What It Is and What It Ought to Be'', Vol. 12 (1981), 83-103
| Peter Renz
| Mathematical Proof: What It Is and What It Ought to Be
|-
|-
| 1982
|1981 || [[Gulbank D. Chakerian]] || ''Circles and Spheres'', Vol. 11 (1980), 26-41
| John Mitchem
| On the History and Solution of the Four-Color Map Problem
|-
|-
| 1981
|1981 || [[Robert G. Dean]], [[Ennis D. McCune]], William D. Clark || ''Calculators to Motivate Infinite Composition of Functions'', Vol. 11 (1980), 189-195
| Ennis D. McCune, Robert G. Dean and William D. Clark
| Calculators to Motivate Infinite Composition of Functions
|-
|-
| 1981
|1980 || Robert Nelson || ''Pictures, Probability, and Paradox'', Vol. 10 (1979), 182-190
| Don Chakerian
| Circles and Spheres
|-
|-
| 1980
|1980 || [[Hugh F. Ouellette and Gordon Bennett]] || ''The Discovery of a Generalization: An Example in Problem Solving'',Vol. 10 (1979), 100-106
| Hugh Ouellette and Gordon Bennett
| The Discovery of a Generalization: An Example in Problem Solving
|-
|-
| 1980
|1979 || [[Richard L. Francis]] || ''A Note on Angle Construction, Vol. 9 (1978), 75-80
| Robert Nelson
| Pictures, Probability and Paradox
|-
|-
| 1979
|1979 || [[Richard Plagge]] || ''Fraction without Quotients: Arithmetic of Repeating Decimals'', Vol. 9 (1978), 11-15
| Richard Plagge
| Fractions without Quotients: Arithmetic of Repeating Decimals
|-
|-
| 1979
|1978 || [[Allen H. Holmes]], [[Walter Sanders]], [[John W. LeDuc]] || ''Statistical Inference for the General Education Student - It Can Be Done'', Vol. 8 (1977), 223-230
| Richard L. Francis
| A Note on Angle Construction
|-
|-
| 1978
|1978 || [[Freida Zames]] || ''Surface Area and the Cylinder Area Paradox''Vol. 8 (1977), 207-211
| [[Frieda Zames]]
| Surface Area and the Cylinder Area Paradox
|-
|-
| 1978
|1977 || [[Anneli Cahn Lax|Anneli Lax]] || ''Linear Algebra, A Potent Tool'', Vol. 7 (1976), 3-15
| Allen H. Holmes, Walter J. Sanders and John W. LeDuc
| Statistical Inference for the General Education Student-It Can Be Done
|-
|-
| 1977
|1977 || [[Julian Weissglass]] || ''Small Groups: An Alternative to the Lecture Method'', Vol. 7 (1976), 15-20
| Julian Weissglass
| Small Groups: An Alternative to the Lecture Method
|-
|-
| 1977
| [[Anneli Lax]]
| Linear Algebra, a Potent Tool
|}
|}


== See also ==
==See also==
* [[List of mathematics awards]]
[[Pólya Prize]]


== References ==
==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}
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[[Category:Awards of the Mathematical Association of America]]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Polya Award}}
[[Category:Mathematics awards]]
[[Category:Awards established in 1976]]

Latest revision as of 00:20, 3 September 2024

For similarly-named awards, see Pólya Prize (disambiguation).

The George Pólya Award is presented annually by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) for articles of expository excellence that have been published in The College Mathematics Journal. The award was established in 1976 and up to two awards of $1,000 each are given in each year.[1][2] The award is named after Hungarian mathematician George Pólya.

Recipients

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Recipients of the George Pólya Award have included:[3][1]

Year Recipient Article
2023 William Q. Erickson Haste Makes Waste: An Optimization Problem
2023 Johnner Barrett Unlawful Calculations: A Look into Lie’s Notebook
2022 Joseph Previte and Michelle Previte The Beautiful Chaotic Dynamics of iz
2022 Adrian Rice and Ezra Brown Why Hamilton Couldn’t Multiply Triples
2021 Holly Middleton-Spencer and James Christian On the Nth Roots of -1 and Complex Basin Boundaries: Fractals from Newton-Raphson
2021 Adam Hammett Euler's Limit and Stirling's Estimate
2020 Adam Glesser, Matt Rathbun, Isabel M. Serrano, Bogdan Suceavă Eclectic Illuminism: Applications of Affine Geometry
2020 Christopher J. Catone Bringing Calculus into Discrete Math via the Discrete Derivative
2019 Stanley R. Huddy and Michael A. Jones The Calculus Behind Generic Drug Equivalence
2019 Peter McGrath Newton’s Shell Theorem via Archimedes’ Hat Box and Single Variable Calculus
2018 Ben Blum-Smith and Samuel Coskey Fundamental Theorem on Symmetric Polynomials: History’s First Whiff of Galois Theory
2018 Stephen Kaczkowski Mathematical Models for Global Mean Sea Level Rise
2017 Viktor Blåsjö How to Find the Logarithm of Any Number Using Nothing But a Piece of String
2017 Travis Kowalski The Sine of a Single Degree
2016 Gordon Hamilton, Kiran S. Kedlaya, and Henri Picciotto Square-Sum Pair Partitions
2016 Hassan Boualem and Robert Brouzet To Be (a Circle) or Not To Be?
2015 Michael Brilleslyper and Lisbeth Schaubroeck Locating Unimodular Roots
2015 David Joyner The Man Who Found God's Number
2014 Adam E. Parker Who Solved the Bernoulli Differential Equation and How Did They Do It?
2014 Christiane Rousseau How Inge Lehmann Discovered the Inner Core of the Earth
2013 Jacob Siehler The Finite Lamplighter Groups: A Guided Tour
2013 David Applegate, Marc LeBrun, and Neil J. A. Sloane Carryless Arithmetic Mod 10
2012 Leslie A. Cheteyan, Stewart Hengveld, and Michael A. Jones Chutes and Ladders for the Impatient
2012 T. S. Michael Guards, Galleries, Fortresses, and the Octoplex
2011 Jonathan K. Hodge, Emily Marshall, and Geoff Patterson Gerrymandering and Convexity
2011 John Martin The Helen of Geometry
2010 Andrew Barker Evolutionary Stability in the Traveler's Dilemma
2010 Curtis Feist and Ramin Naimi Topology Explains Why Automobile Sunshades Fold Oddly
2009 Lawrence Brenton Remainder Wheels and Group Theory
2009 Greg N. Frederickson Designing a Table Both Swinging and Stable
2008 Roland Minton and Timothy J. Pennings Do Dogs Know Bifurcations?
2008 Andrew J. Simoson Pursuit Curves for the Man in the Moone
2007 Richard Jerrard, Joel Schneider, Ralph Smallberg, and John Wetzel Straw in a Box
2007 Allen Schwenk Distortion of Average Class Size: The Lake Wobegon Effect
2006 Ezra Brown Phoebe Floats!
2006 James Sandefur A Geometric Series from Tennis
2005 Brian Hopkins and Robin J. Wilson The Truth About Königsberg
2005 Stephen M. Walk Mind Your ∃s and ∀s
2004 Greg N. Frederickson A New Wrinkle on an Old Folding Problem
2003 David L. Finn Can a Bicycle Create a Unicycle Track?
2003 Dan Kalman An Underdetermined Linear System for GPS
2002 Tim Freeman Conformality, the Exponential Function, and World Map Projections
2001 Ezra Brown Three Fermat Trails to Elliptic Curves
2001 Chip Ross and Jody Sorensen Will the Real Bifurcation Diagram Please Stand up!
2000 Martin Gardner The Asymmetric Propeller
2000 Ezra Brown Square Roots From 1; 24, 51, 10 to Dan Shanks
1999 David Bleecker and Larry Wallen The World’s Biggest Taco
1999 Aaron Klebanoff and John Rickert Studying the Cantor Dust at the Edge of Feigenbaum Diagrams
1998 Aimee Johnson and Kathleen Madden Putting the Pieces Together: Understanding Robinson’s Nonperiodic Tilings
1998 Kevin Kirby Of Memories, Neurons, and Rank-One Corrections
1997 Leon Harkleroad How Mathematicians Know What Computers Can’t Do
1997 Chris Christensen and Shreeram S. Abhyankar Newton’s Method for Resolving Affected Equations
1996 James G. Simmonds A New Look at an Old Function, eiθ
1996 John Ewing Can We See the Mandelbrot Set?
1995 Paulo Ribenboim Prime Number Records
1995 Anthony P. Ferzola Euler and Differentials
1994 Dan Kalman Six Ways to Sum a Series
1994 Charles Groetsch Inverse Problems and Torricelli’s Law
1993 Dana N. Mackenzie Triquetras and Porisms
1993 Les Lange and James W. Miller A Random Ladder Game: Permutations, Eigenvalues, and Convergence of Markov Chains
1992 Howard Eves Two Surprising Theorems on Cavalieri Congruence
1992 William Dunham Euler and the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra
1991 Mark F. Schilling The Longest Run of Heads
1991 William B. Gearhart and Harris S. Shultz The Function sin(x)/x
1990 Israel Kleiner Evolution of the Function Concept: A Brief Survey
1990 D. Neidinger Automatic Differentiation & APL
1989 Edward Rozema Why Should We Pivot in Gaussian Elimination?
1989 Beverly L. Brechner and John C. Mayer Antoine’s Necklace or How to Keep a Necklace from Falling Apart
1988 V. Frederick Rickey Isaac Newton: Man, Myth, and Mathematics
1988 Dennis Luciano and Gordon Prichett Cryptology: From Caesar Ciphers to Public-Key Cryptosystems
1987 Constance Reid The Autobiography of Julia Robinson
1987 Irl Bivens What a Tangent Line Is When It Isn’t a Limit
1986 Philip J. Davis What Do I Know? A Study of Mathematical Self-Awareness
1985 Anthony Barcellos The Fractal Geometry of Mandelbrot
1985 Kay Dundas To Build a Better Box
1984 Ruma Falk and Maya Bar-Hillel Probabilistic Dependence between Events
1984 Richard J. Trudeau How Big is a Point?
1983 Warren Page and Vedula N. Murty Nearness Relations among Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion: Part 1
1983 Douglas R. Hofstadter Analogies and Metaphors to Explain Gödel’s Theorem
1983 Paul R. Halmos The Thrills of Abstraction
1982 Peter Renz Mathematical Proof: What It Is and What It Ought to Be
1982 John Mitchem On the History and Solution of the Four-Color Map Problem
1981 Ennis D. McCune, Robert G. Dean and William D. Clark Calculators to Motivate Infinite Composition of Functions
1981 Don Chakerian Circles and Spheres
1980 Hugh Ouellette and Gordon Bennett The Discovery of a Generalization: An Example in Problem Solving
1980 Robert Nelson Pictures, Probability and Paradox
1979 Richard Plagge Fractions without Quotients: Arithmetic of Repeating Decimals
1979 Richard L. Francis A Note on Angle Construction
1978 Frieda Zames Surface Area and the Cylinder Area Paradox
1978 Allen H. Holmes, Walter J. Sanders and John W. LeDuc Statistical Inference for the General Education Student-It Can Be Done
1977 Julian Weissglass Small Groups: An Alternative to the Lecture Method
1977 Anneli Lax Linear Algebra, a Potent Tool

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References

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  1. ^ a b "George Pólya Awards | Mathematical Association of America". www.maa.org.
  2. ^ An exception was made in 1983 when three awards were given.
  3. ^ Recognizing excellence in the mathematical sciences : an international compilation of awards, prizes, and recipients. Jaguszewski, Janice M. Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press. 1997. ISBN 0762302356. OCLC 37513025.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
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