George Pólya Award

Der George Pólya Award i​st ein 1976 v​on der Mathematical Association o​f America (MAA) eingeführter u​nd seit 1977 vergebener Mathematikpreis für besonders elegante Artikel, d​ie in d​er ebenfalls v​on der MAA herausgegebenen Mathematikzeitschrift College Mathematics Journal erschienen sind. Der n​ach George Pólya benannte Preis, d​er jährlich b​is zu zweimal vergeben wird, i​st (Stand 2013) m​it 1000 US-Dollar dotiert.

Preisträger

Jahr	Preisträger	Artikel
2021	James Christian, Holly Middleton-Spencer	On the Nth Roots of –1 and Complex Basin Boundaries: Fractals from Newton-Raphson, Band 51:2 (2020), 95–104. DOI:10.1080/07468342.2020.1703452
	Adam Hammett	Euler’s Limit and Stirling’s Estimate, Band 51:5, 330–336. DOI:10.1080/07468342.2020.1811058
2020	Christopher Catone	Bringing Calculus into Discrete Math via the Discrete Derivative, Band 50:1 (2019), 21–27
	Adam Glesser, Matt Rathbun, Isabel Serrano, Bogdan D. Suceavă	Eclectic Illuminism: Applications of Affine Geometry, Band 50:2 (2019), 82–92
2019	Stanley R. Huddy, Michael A. Jones	The Calculus Behind Generic Drug Equivalence, Band 49:1 (2018), 2–9
	Peter McGrath	Newton’s Shell Theorem via Archimedes’ Hat Box and Single Variable Calculus, Band 49:2 (2018), 109–113
2018	Ben Blum-Smith, Samuel Coskey	Fundamental Theorem on Symmetric Polynomials: History’s First Whiff of Galois Theory, Band 48:1 (2017), 18–29
	Stephen Kaczkowski	Mathematical Models for Global Mean Sea Level Rise, Band 48:3 (2017), 162–169
2017	Viktor Blåsjö	How to Find the Logarithm of Any Number Using Nothing But a Piece of String, Band 47:2 (2016), 95–100
	Travis Kowalski	The Sine of a Single Degree, Band 47:5 (2016), 322–332
2016	Gordon Hamilton, Kiran S. Kedlaya, Henri Picciotto	Square-Sum Pair Partitions, Band 46:4 (2015), 264–269
	Hassan Boualem, Robert Brouzet	To Be (a Circle) or Not To Be, Band 46:3 (2015), 197–206
2015	David Joyner	The Man Who Found God’s Number. Band 45:4 (2014), 258–266.
	Michael Brilleslyper, Lisbeth Schaubroeck	Locating Unimodular Roots. Band 45:3 (2014), 162–168.
2014	Adam E. Parker	Who Solved the Bernoulli Differential Equation and How Did They Do It? Band 44:2 (2013), 89–97.
	Christiane Rousseau	How Inge Lehmann Discovered the Inner Core of the Earth. Band 44:5 (2013), 399–408.
2013	Jacob Siehler	The Finite Lamplighter Groups: A Guided Tour. Band 43:3 (2012), 203–211.
	David Applegate, Marc LeBrun, Neil J. A. Sloane	Carryless Arithmetic Mod 10 Band 43:1 (2012), 43–50.
2012	T.S. Michael	Guards, Galleries, Fortresses, and the Octoplex, Band 42:3 (2011), 191–200.
	Leslie A. Cheteyan, Stewart Hengeveld, Michael A. Jones	Chutes and Ladders for the Impatient, Band 42:1 (2011), 2–8.
2011	Jonathan K. Hodge, Emily Marshall, Geoff Patterson	Gerrymandering and Convexity, Band 41:4 (2010), 312–324
	John Martin	The Helen of Geometry, Band 41:1 (2010), 17–27.
2010	Andrew Barker	Evolutionary Stability in the Traveler’s Dilemma, Band 40:1 (2009), 33–38
	Curtis Feist, Ramin Naimi	Topology Explains Why Automobile Sunshades Fold Oddly, Band 40:2 (2009), 93–98
2009	Lawrence Brenton	Remainder Wheels and Group Theory, Band 39, no. 2, März 2008, 129–135
	Greg N. Frederickson	Designing a Table Both Swinging and Stable, Band 39, no. 4, September 2008, 258–266
2008	Roland Minton, Timothy J. Pennings	Do Dogs Know Bifurcations?, Band 38, no. 5, November 2007, 356–361
	Andrew J. Simpson	Pursuit Curves for the Man in the Moone, Band 38, no. 5, November 2007, 330–338
2007	Richard Jerrard, Joel Schneider, Ralph Smallberg, John Wetzel	Straw in a Box, Band 37, März 2006, 93–102
	Allen Schwenk	Distortion of Average Class Size: The Lake Wobegon Effect, Band 37, September 2006, 293–296
2006	Ezra Brown	Phoebe Floats!, März 2005, 114–122
	James Sandefur	A Geometric Series from Tennis, Mai 2005, 224–226
2005	Brian Hopkins, Robin J. Wilson	The Truth About Königsberg, Mai 2004, Seite 198
	Stephen M. Walk	Mind Your ∃s and ∀s, November 2004, Seite 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?, Band 33 (2002), 283–292
	Dan Kalman	An Undetermined Linear System for GPS, Band 33 (2002), 384–390
2002	Timothy G. Freeman	Conformality, the Exponential Function, and World Map Projections, Band 32, November 2001, 334–342
2001	Ezra A. Brown	Three Fermat Trails to Elliptic Curves, Band 31, No. 3, (2000), 162–172
	Chip Ross, Jody M. Sorensen	Will the Real Bifurcation Diagram Please Stand Up!, Band 31, No. 1, (2000), 2–14
2000	Ezra Brown	Square roots from 1;24,51,10 to Dan Shanks, Band 30 (1999), 82–95
	Martin Gardner	The asymmetric propeller, Band 30 (1999), 18–22
1999	Aaron Klebanoff, John Rickert	Studying the Cantor Dust at the Edge of the Feigenbaum Diagrams, Taco, Band 29 (1998), 189–198
	David Bleecker, Lawrence J. Wallen	The World’s Biggest Taco, Band 29 (1998), 2–17
1998	Kevin G. Kirby	Of Memories, Neurons, and Rank-One Corrections, Band 28 (1997), 2–19
	Aimee Johnson, Kathleen Madden	Putting the Pieces Together: Understanding Robinson’s Nonperiodic Tilings, Band 28 (1998), 172–181
1997	Chris Christensen	Newton’s Method for Ressolving Affected Equations, Band 27 (1996), 330–340
	Leon Harkleroad	How Mathematicians Know What Computers Can’t Do, Band 27 (1996), 37–42
1996	John H. Ewing	Can We See the Mandelbrot Set?, Band 26 (1995), 90–99
	James G. Simmonds	A New Look at an Old Function, e, Band 26 (1995), 6–10
1995	Anthony P. Ferzola	Euler and Differentials, Band 25 (1994), 102–111
	Paulo Ribenboim	Prime Number Records, Band 25 (1994), 280–290
1994	Charles W. Groetsch	Inverse Problems and Torricelli’s Law, Band 24 (1993), 210–217
	Dan Kalman	Six Ways to Sum a Series, Band 24 (1993), 402–421
1993	L. H. Lange, J. W. Miller	A Random Ladder Game: Permutations, Eigenvalues, and Convergence of Markov Chains, Band 23 (1992), 373–385
	D. N. MacKenzie	Triquetras and Porisms, Band 23 (1992), 118–131
1992	William Dunham	Euler and the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra, Band 22 (1991), 282–293
	Howard Eves	Two Surprising Theorems on Cavalieri Congruence, Band 22 (1991), 118–124
1991	William B. Gearhart, Harris S. Shultz	The Function Sin x/x, Band 21 (1990), 90–99
	Mark F. Schilling	The Longest Run of Heads, Band 21 (1990), 196–207
1990	Israel Kleiner	Evolution of the Function Concept: A Brief Survey, Band 20 (1989), 282–300
	D. Neidinger	Automatic Differentiation & APL, Band 20 (1989), 238–251
1989	Beverly L. Brechner, John C. Mayer	Antoine’s Necklace - or How to Keep a Necklace from Falling Apart, Band 19 (1988), 306–320
	Edward Rozema	Why Should We Pivot in Gaussian Elimination?, Band 19 (1988), 63–72
1988	Dennis M. Luciano, Gordon D. Pritchett	Cryptology: From Caesar Ciphers to Public-Key Cryptosystems, Band 18 (1987), 2–17
	V. Frederick Rickey	Isaac Newton: Man, Myth, and Mathematics, Band 18, (1987), 362–389
1987	Irl C. Bivens	What a Tangent Line Is When It Isn’t a Limit, Band 17 (1986), 133–143
	Constance Reid	The Autobiography of Julia Robinson, Band 17 (1986), 2–21
1986	Philip J. Davis	What Do I Know? A Study of Mathematical Self-Awareness, Band 16 (1985), 22–41
1985	Anthony Barcellos	The Fractal Geometry of Mandelbrot, Band 15 (1984), 98–114
	Kay Dundas	To Build a Better Box, Band 15 (1984), 30–36
1984	Ruma Falk, Maya Bar-Hillel	Probabilistic Dependence Between Events, Band 14 (1983), 240–247
	Richard J. Trudeau	How Big is a Point?, Band 14 (1983), 295–300
1983	Paul R. Halmos	The Thrills of Abstraction, Band 13 (1982), 243–251
	Douglas R. Hofstadter	Analogies and Metaphors to Explain Gó's Theorem, Band 13 (1982), 98–114
	Warren Page, V.N. Murty	Nearness Relations Among Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion, Part 1, Band 13 (1982), 315–327
1982	John A. Mitchem	On the History and Solution of the Four-Color Map Problem, Band 12 (1981), 108–116
	Peter L. Renz	Mathematical Proof: What It Is and What It Ought to Be, Band 12 (1981), 83–103
1981	Gulbank D. Chakerian	Circles and Spheres, Band 11 (1980), 26–41
	Robert G. Dean, Ennis D. McCune, William D. Clark	Calculators to Motivate Infinite Composition of Functions, Band 11 (1980), 189–195
1980	Robert Nelson	Pictures, Probability, and Paradox, Band 10 (1979), 182–190
	Hugh F. Ouellette and Gordon Bennett	The Discovery of a Generalization: An Example in Problem Solving, Band 10 (1979), 100–106
1979	Richard L. Francis	A Note on Angle Construction, Band 9 (1978), 75–80
	Richard Plagge	Fraction without Quotients: Arithmetic of Repeating Decimals, Band 9 (1978), 11–15
1978	Allen H. Holmes, Walter Sanders, John W. LeDuc	Statistical Inference for the General Education Student - It Can Be Done, Band 8 (1977), Seite 223–230
	Freida Zames	Surface Area and the Cylinder Area Paradox, Band 8 (1977), 207–211
1977	Anneli Lax	Linear Algebra, A Potent Tool, Band 7 (1976), 3–15
	Julian Weissglass	Small Groups: An Alternative to the Lecture Method, Band 7 (1976), 15–20

Siehe auch

• George-Pólya-Preis

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• George Pólya Awards bei der MAA