The Mathematical Association of America's Lester R. Ford Award
The Lester R. Ford Awards were established in 1964 to recognize
authors of
articles of
expository excellence published in the American Mathematical Monthly.
or the Mathematics Magazine. Beginning in 1976 the MAA created a
separate award (Allendoerfer Award) for articles in the Mathematics
Magazine. The awards are
named for Lester R. Ford, Sr., a distinguished mathematician, editor
of the American
Mathematical Monthly, 1942-1946, and President of the Mathematical
Association of
America, 1947-1948. This is an award of $500. Up to five of these
awards are given
annually at the Summer Meeting of the Association.
List of Recipients
1997
Robert G. Bartle
A. F. Beardon
J. Brillhart and Patrick Morton
1996
Martin Aigner
Sheldon Axler
John Oprea
1995
Fernando Q. Gouv
Robert Gray
Jonathan L. King
I. Kleiner & N.
Movshovitz-Hadar
William C. Waterhouse
1994
Bruce C. Berndt &
S. Bhargava
Reuben Hersh
Leonard Gillman
Joseph H. Silverman
Dan Velleman & Istvan
Szalkai
1992
Clement W.H. Lam
1991
Marcel Y. Berger
Ronald Graham
Joyce Justicz
Edward R. Scheinerman
Peter Winkler
Frances Yao
1990
Jacob Goodman, J nos Pach
& Chee K. Yap
Doron Zeilberger
1989
Gert
Almkvist & Bruce
Berndt
Richard K. Guy
1988
James
Epperson
Stan Wagon
1987
Stuart S.
Antman
Joan Cleary, Sidney
Morris
& David Yost
Howard Hiller
Jacob Korevaar
Peter M. Neumann
1986
Jeffrey C.
Lagarias
Michael E. Taylor
1985
John D.
Dixon
Donald G. Saari &
John B.
Urenko
1984
Judith
Grabiner
Roger Howe
John Milnor
Joel Spencer
William C.
Waterhouse
1983
Robert F.
Brown
Tony Rothman
Robert S. Strichartz
1982
Philip Davis
R. Arthur Knoebel
1981
R. Creighton Buck
Bruce H. Pourciau
Alan H. Schoenfeld
Edward R. Swart
Lawrence A. Zalcman
1980
Desmond Fearnley-Sander
David Gale
Karel Hrbacek
Cathleen S. Morawetz
Robert Osserman
1979
Bradley Efron
Ned Glick
Kenneth I. Gross
Joseph B. Kruskal &
Lawrence A. Shepp
1978
Ralph P. Boas
Louis H. Kauffman &
Thomas F. Banchoff
Neil J.A. Sloane
1977
Shreeram Abhyankar
Joseph B. Keller
Donald S. Passman
Douglas Wiens, Hideo
Wada, Daihachiro Sato
& James P. Jones
William P. Ziemer,
William H. Wheeler,
S.H. Moolgavkar,
Paul R. Halmos,
John H. Ewing
& William H. Gustafson
1976
Michel L.
Balinski &
H.P. Young
Edward A. Bender &
J.R. Goldman
Branko Grnbaum
James E. Humphreys
Joseph B. Keller &
David W.
McLaughlin
Justin J. Price
1975
Raymond
Ayoub
J. Callahan
Donald E. Knuth
Johannes C.C.
Nitsche
Sherman K. Stein
Lawrence Zalcman
1974
Patrick
Billingsley
Garrett Birkhoff
Martin D. Davis
I.J. Schoenberg
Lynn A. Steen
R.J. Wilson
1973
Jean A.
Dieudonn,
Samuel Karlin
Peter D. Lax
Thomas L. Saaty
Lynn A. Steen
R.L. Wilder
1972
Gulbank D.
Chakerian &
Lester H. Lange
Paul M. Cohn
Frederick
Cunningham, Jr.
W.J. Ellison
Leon Henkin
Victor Klee
1971
Jean A.
Dieudonn,
George Forsythe
Paul R. Halmos
Eric Langford
Peter V. O'Neil
Olga Taussky
1970
Henry L. Alder
Ralph P. Boas
William A. Coppel
Norman Levinson
John Milnor
Ivan Niven
1969
Harley Flanders
George Forsythe
Marcel F. Neuts
Pierre Samuel
Hassler Whitney
Albert Wilansky
1968
Frederick Cunningham, Jr.
W.F. Newns
Daniel Pedoe
Keith L. Phillip
F.V. Waugh &
Margaret W. Maxfield
Hans J. Zassenhaus
1967
Wai-Kai Chen
D.R. Fulkerson
Mark Kac
M. Zuhair Nashed
Paul B. Yale
1966
Carl B. Allendoerfer
Peter D. Lax
Marvin Marcus &
Henryk Minc
1965
RH Bing
Louis Brand
Robert G. Kuller
R. Duncan Luce
Hartley Rogers, Jr.
Elmer Tolsted