Carl B. Allendoerfer Award


The Carl B. Allendoerfer Award is presented annually by the Mathematical Association of America for "expository excellence published in Mathematics Magazine." it is named after mathematician Carl B. Allendoerfer who was president of the MAA 1959–60.

Recipients

Recipients of the Carl B. Allendoerfer Award have included:
RecipientYearArticle
William Dunham2019The Early History of the Möbius Function
Jordan Bell and Viktor Blåsjö2019Pietro Mengoli’s 1650 Proof that the Harmonic Series Diverges
Fumiko Futamura and Robert Lehr2018A New Perspective on Finding the Viewpoint
Brian Conrey, James Gabbard, Katie Grant, Andrew Liu, and Kent Morrison2017Intransitive Dice
Vladimir Pozdnyakov and Michael Steele2017Buses, Bullies, and Bijections
Julia Barnes, Clinton Curry, Elizabeth Russell, and Lisbeth Schaubroeck2016Emerging Julia Sets
Irl Bivens and Ben Klein2016The Median Value of a Continuous Function
Daniel Heath2015Straightedge and Compass Constructions in Spherical Geometry
Andrew Beveridge and Stan Wagon2015The Sorting Hat Goes to College
Sally Cockburn and Joshua Lesperance2014Deranged Socks
Susan Marshall and Donald Smith2014Feedback, Control, and Distribution of Prime Numbers
Khristo N. Boyadzhiev2013Close Encounters with the Stirling Numbers of the Second Kind
Adrian Rice and Ezra A. Brown2013Why Ellipses Are Not Elliptic Curves
P. Mark Kayll2012Integrals Don't Have Anything to Do with Discrete Math, Do They?
John A. Adam2012Blood Vessel Branching: Beyond the Standard Calculus Problem
Curtis D. Bennett, Blake Mellor, and Patrick Shanahan2011Drawing a Triangle on the Thurston Model of Hyperbolic Space
Gene Abrams and Jessica Sklar2011The Graph Menagerie: Abstract Algebra and the Mad Veterinarian
David Speyer and Bernd Sturmfels2010Tropical Mathematics
Ezra Brown and Keith Mellinger2010Kirkman's Schoolgirls Wearing Hats and Walking Through Fields of Numbers
Jeff Suzuki2009A Brief History of Impossibility
Vesna Stojanoska and Orlin Stoytchev2009Touching the Z2 in Three-Dimensional Rotations
Chris Christensen2009Polish Mathematicians Finding Patterns in Enigma Messages
Eugene Boman, Richard Brazier, and Derek Seiple2008Mom! There's an Astroid in My Closet!
Saul Stahl2008The Evolution of the Normal Distribution
Carl V. Lutzer2007Hammer Juggling, Rotational Instability, and Eigenvalues
Jeff Suzuki2006The Lost Calculus : Tangency and Optimization without Limits
Robb T. Koether and John K. Osinach, Jr.2006Outwitting the Lying Oracle
Roger B. Eggleton and William P. Galvin2005Upper Bounds on the Sum of Principal Divisors of an Integer
Charles I. Delman and Gregory Galperin2004A Tale of Three Circles
Ezra Brown2003The Many Names of
Dan Kalman2003Doubly Recursive Multivariate Automatic Differentiation
Mark McKinzie and Curtis Tuckey2002Higher Trigonometry, Hyperreal Numbers, and Euler's Analysis of Infinities
James N. Brawner2001Dinner, Dancing, and Tennis, Anyone?
Raphael Falk Jones and Janice L. Pearce2001A Postmodern View of Fractions and the Reciprocals of Fermat Primes
Donald Teets and Karen Whitehead2000The Discovery of Ceres: How Gauss Became Famous
Donald G. Saari and Fabrice Valognes1999Geometry, Voting, and Paradoxes
Victor Klee and John R. Reay1999A Surprising but Easily Proved Geometric Decomposition Theorem
Dan Kalman, Robert Mena, and Shahriar Shahriari1998Variations on an Irrational Theme-Geometry, Dynamics, Algebra
Lin Tan1997The Group of Rational Points on the Unit Circle
Colm Mulcahy1997Plotting and Scheming with Wavelets
Daniel J. Velleman and Gregory S. Call1996Permutations and Combination Locks
Judith Grabiner1996Descartes and Problem-Solving
Tristan Needham1995The Geometry of Harmonic Functions
Lee Badgett1995Lazzarini's Lucky Approximation of pi
Joan P. Hutchinson1994Coloring Ordinary Maps, Maps of Empires, and Maps of the Moon
Xun-Cheng Huang1993From Intermediate Value Theorem to Chaos
David Logothetti1992
Israel Kleiner1992Rigor and Proof in Mathematics: A Historical Perspective
Gulbank D. Chakerian1992Cube Slices, Pictorial Triangles, and Probability
Ranjan Roy1991The Discovery of the Series Formula for π by Leibniz, Gregory, and Nilakantha
Ronald L. Graham1990
Martin Gardner1990
Fan Chung1990Steiner Trees on a Checkerboard
Thomas Archibald1990Connectivity and Smoke-Rings: Green's Second Identity in Its First Fifty Years
Kenneth C. Millett1989
W.B. Raymond Lickorish1989The New Polynomial Invariants of Knots and Links
Judith Grabiner1989The Centrality of Mathematics in the History of Western Thought
Steven Galovich1988Products of Sines and Cosines
Bart Braden1988Pólya's Geometric Picture of Complex Contour Integrals
Paul Zorn1987The Bieberbach Conjecture
Israel Kleiner1987The Evolution of Group Theory: A Brief Survey
Saul Stahl1986The Other Map Coloring Theorem
Bart Braden1986Design of an Oscillating Sprinkler
Philip D. Straffin, Jr.1985Parliamentary Coalitions: A Tour of Models
Bernard Grofman1985
Frederick S. Gass1985Constructive Ordinal Notation Systems
Judith Grabiner1984The Changing Concept of Change: The Derivative from Fermat to Weierstrass
Clifford Wagner1983A Generic Approach to Iterative Methods
Donald Koehler1983Mathematics and Literature
Marjorie Senechal1982Which Tetrahedra Fill Space?
J. Ian Richards1982Continued Fractions without Tears
Donald E. Sanderson1981Advanced Plane Topology from an Elementary Standpoint
Stephen B. Maurer1981The King Chicken Theorems
Ernst Snapper1980The Three Crises in Mathematics: Logicism, Intuitionism, and Formalism
Victor Klee1980Some Unsolved Problems in Plane Geometry
Doris Schattschneider1979Tiling the Plane with Congruent Pentagons
Bruce C. Berndt1979Ramanujan's Notebooks
David A. Smith1978Human Population Growth: Stability or Explosion?
Geoffrey C. Shephard1978Tilings by Regular Polygons
Branko Grünbaum1978
B.L. van der Waerden1977Hamilton's Discovery of Quaternions
Joseph A. Gallian1977The Search for Finite Simple Groups