Euler Book Prize

Der Euler Book Prize i​st ein Preis d​er Mathematical Association o​f America für populärwissenschaftliche o​der sich a​n allgemeines Publikum wendende Mathematikbücher. Er i​st nach Leonhard Euler benannt u​nd wird s​eit dessen 300. Todesjahr 2007 vergeben. Gestiftet w​urde der Preis d​urch Paul Halmos u​nd dessen Frau Virginia. Das Buch d​arf nicht älter a​ls fünf Jahre s​ein und m​uss in Englisch publiziert sein. Der Preis i​st mit 2000 Dollar dotiert.

Preisträger
  • 2007 John Derbyshire, Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics, National Academy Press 2003
  • 2008 Benjamin H. Yandell, The Honors Class. Hilbert´s Problems and their solvers, A. K. Peters 2002
  • 2009 Siobhan Roberts, King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the man who saved geometry, Walker and Company, New York 2006
  • 2010 David S. Richeson, Euler’s Gem: The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology, Princeton University Press, 2008.
  • 2011 Timothy Gowers, (Herausgeber und Mitautor) The Princeton Companion to Mathematics, Princeton University Press 2008
  • 2012 Daina Taimina, Crocheting Adventures with hyperbolic planes, A. K. Peters 2009 (Bildband mit Strickmustern für die hyperbolische Ebene, Vorwort William Thurston)
  • 2013 Persi Diaconis, Ronald Graham, Magical Mathematics. The mathematical ideas that animate great magic tricks, Princeton University Press 2011
  • 2014 Steven Strogatz, The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, 2012
  • 2015 Edward Frenkel, Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality, Basic Books, 2013
  • 2016 Jordan Ellenberg, How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, The Penguin Press, 2014
  • 2017 Ian Stewart, In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World, Basic Books, New York, 2012
  • 2018 Matt Parker, Things to make and do in the fourth dimension, Penguin 2015.
  • 2019 Cathy O’Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction, Crown 2016[1]
  • 2020 Tim Chartier, Math Bytes: Google Bombs, Chocolate-Covered Pi, and Other Cool Bits in Computing, Princeton University Press (2014)[2]
  • 2021 Francis Su and Christopher Jackson, Mathematics for Human Flourishing, Yale University Press (2020)[3]

Einzelnachweise
  1. JMM Prizebook 2019
  2. JMM Prizebook 2020
  3. JMM Prizebook 2021
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