George Pólya Award
The George Pólya Award is a mathematical prize established in 1976 and awarded since 1977 by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) for quality articles published in the MAA-edited College Mathematics Journal. The award, named for mathematician George Pólya, is given up to twice yearly with a monetary payment of 500 U.S. dollars.
List of prize winners
| Year | Prize winner(s) | Article |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Adam E. Parker | Who Solved the Bernoulli Differential Equation and How Did They Do It?,
Vol. 44:2, (2013), 89-97. |
| 2014 | Christiane Rousseau | How Inge Lehmann Discovered the Inner Core of the Earth, Vol. 44:5, (2013), 399-408 |
| 2013 | Jacob Siehler | The Finite Lamplighter Groups: A Guided Tour, Vol. 43:3, (2012), 203-211. |
| 2013 | David Applegate, Marc LeBrun, Neil J. A. Sloane | Carryless Arithmetic Mod 10, Vol. 43:1,(2012), 43-50. |
| 2012 | T.S. Michael | Guards, Galleries, Fortresses, and the Octoplex, Vol. 42:3 (2011), 191–200. |
| 2012 | Leslie A. Cheteyan, Stewart Hengeveld, Michael A. Jones | Chutes and Ladders for the Impatient, Vol. 42:1 (2011), 2–8. |
| 2011 | Jonathan K. Hodge, Emily Marshall, Geoff Patterson | Gerrymandering and Convexity, Vol. 41:4 (2010), 312–324 |
| 2011 | John Martin | The Helen of Geometry, Vol. 41:1 (2010), 17–27. |
| 2010 | Andrew Barker | Evolutionary Stability in the Traveler's Dilemma, Vol. 40:1 (2009), 33–38 |
| 2010 | Curtis Feist, Ramin Naimi | Topology Explains Why Automobile Sunshades Fold Oddly, Vol. 40:2 (2009), 93–98 |
| 2009 | Lawrence Brenton | Remainder Wheels and Group Theory, Vol. 39, no. 2, March 2008, 129–135 |
| 2009 | Greg N. Frederickson | Designing a Table Both Swinging and Stable, Vol. 39, no. 4, September 2008, 258–266 |
| 2008 | Roland Minton, Timothy J. Pennings | Do Dogs Know Bifurcations?, Vol. 38, no. 5, November 2007, 356–361 |
| 2008 | Andrew J. Simoson | Pursuit Curves for the Man in the Moone, Vol. 38, no. 5, November 2007, 330–338 |
| 2007 | Richard Jerrard, Joel Schneider, Ralph Smallberg, John Wetzel | Straw in a Box, Vol. 37, March 2006, 93–102 |
| 2007 | Allen Schwenk | Distortion of Average Class Size: The Lake Wobegon Effect, Vol. September 2006, 293–296 |
| 2006 | Ezra Brown | Phoebe Floats!, March 2005, 114–122 |
| 2006 | James Sandefur | A Geometric Series from Tennis, May 2005, 224–226 |
| 2005 | Brian Hopkins, Robin J. Wilson | The Truth About Königsberg, May 2004, page 198 |
| 2005 | Stephen M. Walk | Mind Your ∃s and ∀s, November 2004, page 362 |
| 2004 | Greg N. Frederickson | A New Wrinkle on an Old Folding Problem, September, 2003, Vol. 34(4) pp. 258–263 |
| 2003 | David L. Finn | Can a Bicycle Create a Unicycle Track?, Vol. 33 (2002), 283-292 |
| 2003 | Dan Kalman | An Undetermined Linear System for GPS, Vol. 33 (2002), 384–390 |
| 2002 | Timothy G. Feeman | Conformality, the Exponential Function, and World Map Projections. Vol, 32, November 2001, 334–342 |
| 2001 | Ezra A. Brown | Three Fermat Trails to Elliptic Curves, Vol. 31, No. 3, (2000), 162–172 |
| 2001 | Chip Ross, Jody M. Sorensen | Will the Real Bifurcation Diagram Please Stand Up!, Vol. 31, No.1, (2000), 2–14 |
| 2000 | Ezra Brown | Square roots from 1;24,51,10 to Dan Shanks, Vol. 30 (1999), 82-95 |
| 2000 | Martin Gardner | The asymmetric propeller, Vol. 30 (1999), 18–22 |
| 1999 | Aaron Klebanoff, John Rickert | Studying the Cantor Dust at the Edge of the Feigenbaum Diagrams, Taco, Vol. 29 (1998), 189–198 |
| 1999 | David Bleecker, Lawrence J. Wallen | The World's Biggest Taco, Vol. 29 (1998), 2–17 |
| 1998 | Kevin G. Kirby | Of Memories, Neurons, and Rank-One Corrections, Vol. 28 (1997), 2–19 |
| 1998 | Aimee Johson, Kathleen Madden | Putting the Pieces Together: Understanding Robinson's Nonperiodic Tilings, Vol. 28 (1998), 172–181 |
| 1997 | Chris Christensen | Newton's Method for Ressolving Affected Equations, Vol. 27 (1996), 330–340 |
| 1997 | Leon Harkleroad | How Mathematicians Know What Computers Can't Do, Vol. 27 (1996), 37–42 |
| 1996 | John H. Ewing | Can We See the Mandelbrot Set?, Vol. 26 (1995), 90–99 |
| 1996 | James G. Simmonds | A New Look at an Old Function, e, Vol. 26 (1995), 6–10 |
| 1995 | Anthony P. Ferzola | Euler and Differentials, Vol. 25 (1994), 102–111 |
| 1995 | Paulo Ribenboim | Prime Number Records, Vol. 25 (1994), 280–290 |
| 1994 | Charles W. Groetsch | Inverse Problems and Torricelli's Law, Vol. 24 (1993), 210–217 |
| 1994 | Dan Kalman | Six Ways to Sum a Series, Vol. 24 (1993), 402–421 |
| 1993 | L. H. Lange, J. W. Miller | A Random Ladder Game: Permutations, Eigenvalues, and Convergence of Markov Chains,Vol. 23 (1992), 373–385 |
| 1993 | D. N. MacKenzie | Triquetras and Porisms, Vol. 23 (1992), 118–131 |
| 1992 | William Dunham | Euler and the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra, Vol. 22 (1991), 282–293 |
| 1992 | Howard Eves | Two Surprising Theorems on Cavalieri Congruence, Vol. 22 (1991), 118–124 |
| 1991 | William B. Gearhart, Harris S. Shultz | The Function Sin x/x, Vol. 21 (1990), 90–99 |
| 1991 | Mark F. Schilling | The Longest Run of Heads, Vol. 21 (1990), 196–207 |
| 1990 | Israel Kleiner | Evolution of the Function Concept: A Brief Survey, Vol. 20 (1989), 282–300 |
| 1990 | D. Neidinger | Automatic Differentiation & APL, Vol. 20 (1989), 238–251 |
| 1989 | Beverly L. Brechner, John C. Mayer | Antoine's Necklace – or How to Keep a Necklace from Falling Apart, Vol. 19 (1988), 306–320 |
| 1989 | Edward Rozema | Why Should We Pivot in Gaussian Elimination?, Vol. 19 (1988), 63–72 |
| 1988 | Dennis M. Luciano, Gordon D. Pritchett | Cryptology: From Caesar Ciphers to Public-Key Cryptosystems, Vol. 18 (1987), 2–17 |
| 1998 | V. Frederick Rickey | Isaac Newton: Man, Myth, and Mathematics, Vol. 18, (1987), 362–389 |
| 1987 | Irl C. Bivens | What a Tangent Line Is When It Isn't a Limit, Vol. 17 (1986), 133–143 |
| 1987 | Constance Reid | The Autobiography of Julia Robinson, Vol. 17 (1986), 2–21 |
| 1986 | Philip J. Davis | What Do I Know? A Study of Mathematical Self-Awareness, Vol. 16 (1985), 22–41 |
| 1985 | Anthony Barcellos | The Fractal Geometry of Mandelbrot, Vol. 15 (1984), 98–114 |
| 1985 | Kay Dundas | To Build a Better Box, Vol. 15 (1984), 30–36 |
| 1984 | Ruma Falk, Maya Bar-Hillel | Probabilistic Dependence Between Events, Vol. 14 (1983), 240–247 |
| 1984 | Richard J. Trudeau | How Big is a Point?, Vol. 14 (1983), 295–300 |
| 1983 | Paul R. Halmos | The Thrills of Abstraction, Vol. 13 (1982), 243–251 |
| 1983 | Douglas R. Hofstadter | Analogies and Metaphors to Explain Gó's Theorem, Vol. 13 (1982), 98–114 |
| 1983 | Warren Page, V.N. Murty | Nearness Relations Among Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion, Part 1, Vol. 13 (1982), 315–327 |
| 1982 | John A. Mitchem | On the History and Solution of the Four-Color Map Problem, Vol. 12 (1981), 108–116 |
| 1982 | Peter L. Renz | Mathematical Proof: What It Is and What It Ought to Be, Vol. 12 (1981), 83–103 |
| 1981 | Gulbank D. Chakerian | Circles and Spheres, Vol. 11 (1980), 26–41 |
| 1981 | Robert G. Dean, Ennis D. McCune, William D. Clark | Calculators to Motivate Infinite Composition of Functions, Vol. 11 (1980), 189–195 |
| 1980 | Robert Nelson | Pictures, Probability, and Paradox, Vol. 10 (1979), 182–190 |
| 1980 | Hugh F. Ouellette and Gordon Bennett | The Discovery of a Generalization: An Example in Problem Solving,Vol. 10 (1979), 100–106 |
| 1979 | Richard L. Francis | A Note on Angle Construction, Vol. 9 (1978), 75–80 |
| 1979 | Richard Plagge | Fraction without Quotients: Arithmetic of Repeating Decimals, Vol. 9 (1978), 11–15 |
| 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 |
| 1978 | Freida Zames | Surface Area and the Cylinder Area ParadoxVol. 8 (1977), 207–211 |
| 1977 | Anneli Lax | Linear Algebra, A Potent Tool, Vol. 7 (1976), 3–15 |
| 1977 | Julian Weissglass | Small Groups: An Alternative to the Lecture Method, Vol. 7 (1976), 15–20 |
See also
References
- "George Polya Award". Mathematical Association of America. Retrieved 2 October 2012. At this website most of the award-winning articles are openly accessible.