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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 = http://www.maa.org/programs/maa-awards/writing-awards/George-Pólya-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>

== Recipients ==
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/>

{| class="wikitable"
!Year
!Recipient
!Article
|-
| 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 Wilson (mathematician)|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 (Bud) 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 (Bud) 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 (mathematician)|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 (mathematician)|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
|}

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

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

[[Category:Awards of the Mathematical Association of America]]

Revision as of 16:41, 10 July 2020

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]

Recipients

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

Year Recipient Article
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 (Bud) 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 (Bud) 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

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "George Pólya Awards | Mathematical Association of America". www.maa.org. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  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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