Levi L. Conant Prize

The Levi L. Conant Prize is a mathematics prize of the American Mathematical Society, which has been awarded every year since 2001 for outstanding expository papers published in the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society or the Notices of the American Mathematical Society in the previous five years. The award is worth $1,000.

The award is named after Levi L. Conant (1857–1916), a professor at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, known as the author of the anthropological mathematics book The Number Concept (1896). He left the American Mathematical Society $10,000 for the foundation of the award bearing his name in 2000.

Winners

Source: American Mathematical Society[1]

  • 2026: Pablo Raúl Stinga for his article "Fractional derivatives: Fourier, elephants, memory effects, viscoelastic materials, and anomalous diffusions".[2]
  • 2025: Jinyoung Park for her article "Threshold phenomena for random discrete structures".[3]
  • 2024: Jennifer Hom for her article "Getting a handle on the Conway knot".[4]
  • 2023: Joshua Greene for his article "Heegard Floer homology".[5]
  • 2022: Andrej Bauer for his article "Five stages of accepting constructive mathematics".[6]
  • 2021: Dan Margalit for his article "The mathematics of Joan Birman".[7]
  • 2020: Amie Wilkinson for her article "What are Lyapunov exponents, and why are they interesting?".[8]
  • 2019: Alex Wright for his article "From rational billiards to dynamics on moduli spaces".[9]
  • 2018: Henry Cohn for his article "A conceptual breakthrough in sphere packing".[10]
  • 2017: David H. Bailey, Jonathan Borwein, Andrew Mattingly, and Glenn Wightwick for their article "The computation of previously inaccessible digits of and Catalan's constant".[11]
  • 2016: Daniel Rothman for his article "Earth's carbon cycle: a mathematical perspective".[12]
  • 2015: Jeffrey Lagarias and Chuanming Zong for their article "Mysteries in packing regular tetrahedra".[13]
  • 2014: Alex Kontorovich for his article "From Apollonius to Zaremba: local-global phenomena in thin orbits".[14]
  • 2013: John C. Baez and John Huerta for their article "The algebra of grand unified theories".[15]
  • 2012: Persi Diaconis for his article "The Markov chain Monte Carlo revolution".[16]
  • 2011: David Vogan for his article "The character table for ".[17]
  • 2010: Bryna Kra for her article "The Green-Tao theorem on arithmetic progressions in the primes: an ergodic point of view".[18]
  • 2009: John Morgan for his article "Recent progress on the Poincaré conjecture and the classification of 3-manifolds".[19]
  • 2008: J. Brian Conrey for his article "The Riemann hypothesis";[20] and Shlomo Hoory, Nathan Linial, and Avi Wigderson for their article "Expander graphs and their applications".[21]
  • 2007: Jeffrey Weeks for his article "The Poincaré dodecahedral space and the mystery of the missing fluctuations".[22]
  • 2006: Ronald Solomon for his article "A brief history of the classification of the finite simple groups".[23]
  • 2005: Allen Knutson and Terence Tao for their article "Honeycombs and sums of Hermitian matrices".[24]
  • 2004: Noam Elkies for his articles "Lattices, linear codes, and invariants I, II".[25][26]
  • 2003: Nicholas Katz and Peter Sarnak for their article "Zeroes of zeta functions and symmetry".[27]
  • 2002: Elliott Lieb and Jakob Yngvason for their article "A guide to entropy and the second law of thermodynamics".[28]
  • 2001: Carl Pomerance for his article "A tale of two sieves".[29]

See also

References

The original article was a translation of the corresponding German article.

  1. ^ American Mathematical Society
  2. ^ Stinga, Pablo Raúl (2023). "Fractional Derivatives: Fourier, Elephants, Memory Effects, Viscoelastic Materials, and Anomalous Diffusions" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 70 (4): 576–587. doi:10.1090/noti2663.
  3. ^ Park, Jinyoung (2023). "Threshold phenomena for random discrete structures" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 70 (4): 1615–1625. doi:10.1090/noti2802.
  4. ^ Hom, Jennifer (2022). "Getting a handle on the Conway knot" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 59 (1): 19–29. doi:10.1090/bull/1745.
  5. ^ Greene, Joshua (2021). "Heegard Floer homology" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 68 (1): 19–33. doi:10.1090/noti2194.
  6. ^ Bauer, Andrej (2017). "Five stages of accepting constructive mathematics" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 54 (3): 481–498. doi:10.1090/bull/1556.
  7. ^ Margalit, Dan (2019). "The mathematics of Joan Birman" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 66 (3): 341–353. doi:10.1090/noti/1808.
  8. ^ Wilkinson, Amie (2017). "What are Lyapunov exponents, and why are they interesting?" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 54 (1): 79–105. doi:10.1090/bull/1552.
  9. ^ Wright, Alex (2016). "From rational billiards to dynamics on moduli spaces" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 53 (1): 41–56. doi:10.1090/bull/1513.
  10. ^ Cohn, Henry (2017). "A conceptual breakthrough in sphere packing" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 64 (2): 102–115. doi:10.1090/noti1474.
  11. ^ Bailey, David H.; Borwein, Jonathan; Mattingly, Andrew; Wightwick, Glenn (2013). "The computation of previously inaccessible digits of π2 and Catalan's constant" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 60 (7): 844–854. doi:10.1090/noti1015.
  12. ^ Rothman, Daniel (2015). "Earth's carbon cycle: a mathematical perspective" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 52 (1): 47–64.
  13. ^ Lagarias, Jeffrey; Zong, Chuanming (2012). "Mysteries in packing regular tetrahedra" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 59 (11): 1540–1549. doi:10.1090/noti918.
  14. ^ Kontorovich, Alex (2013). "From Apollonius to Zaremba: local-global phenomena in thin orbits" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 50 (2): 187–228. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-2013-01402-2. S2CID 15496675.
  15. ^ Baez, John; Huerta, John (2010). "The algebra of grand unified theories" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 47 (3): 483–552. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-10-01294-2. S2CID 2941843.
  16. ^ Diaconis, Persi (2009). "The Markov chain Monte Carlo revolution" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 46 (2): 179–205. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-08-01238-X.
  17. ^ Vogan, David (2007). "The character table for E8" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 54 (9): 1022–1034.
  18. ^ Kra, Bryna (2006). "The Green-Tao theorem on arithmetic progressions in the primes: an ergodic point of view" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 43 (1): 3–23. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-05-01086-4.
  19. ^ Morgan, John (2005). "Recent progress on the Poincaré conjecture and the classification of 3-manifolds" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 42 (1): 57–78. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-04-01045-6.
  20. ^ Conrey, J. Brian (2003). "The Riemann hypothesis" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 50 (3): 341–353.
  21. ^ Hoory, Shlomo; Linial, Nathan; Widgerson, Avi (2006). "Expander graphs and their applications" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 43 (4): 439–561. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-06-01126-8.
  22. ^ Weeks, Jeffrey (2004). "The Poincaré dodecahedral space and the mystery of the missing fluctuations" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 51 (6): 610–619. S2CID 18999446.
  23. ^ Solomon, Ronald (2001). "A brief history of the classification of the finite simple groups" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 38 (3): 315–352. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-01-00909-0.
  24. ^ Knutson, Allen; Tao, Terence (2001). "Honeycombs and sums of Hermitian matrices" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 48 (2): 175–186. S2CID 13131106.
  25. ^ Elkies, Noam (2000). "Lattices, linear codes, and invariants, part I" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 47 (10): 1238–1245.
  26. ^ Elkies, Noam (2000). "Lattices, linear codes, and invariants, part II" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 47 (11): 1382–1391.
  27. ^ Katz, Nicholas; Sarnak, Peter (1999). "Zeroes of zeta functions and symmetry" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 36 (1): 1–26. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-99-00766-1. S2CID 16213113.
  28. ^ Lieb, Elliott; Yngvason, Jacob (1998). "A guide to entropy and the second law of thermodynamics" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 45 (5): 571–581.
  29. ^ Pomerance, Carl (1996). "A tale of two sieves" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 43 (12): 1473–1485. S2CID 1695797.