Levi L. Conant Prize

The Levi L. Conant Prize - is a mathematics prize of the American Mathematical Society, which has been awarded since 2000 for outstanding explanatory mathematical work in the journals of the Society Notices of the American Mathematical Society and the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. It is endowed with $ 1,000 and is awarded annually.

It is named after Levi L. Conant (1857-1916), a professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, known as the author of Mathematics and anthropological book "The number concept" ( 1896). He left the AMS $ 10,000, which took advantage of this for the foundation of the prize named after him.

Award winners

  • 2014: Alex Kontorovich for From Apollonius to Zaremba: Local -global phenomena in thin orbits, Bulletin AMS, Vol 50, 2013, pp. 187-228
  • 2013: John Baez and John Huerta for The algebra of grand unified theories, Bulletin AMS, Vol 47, 2010 pp. 483-552
  • 2012: Persi Diaconis for The Markov chain Monte Carlo revolution, Bulletin AMS, Vol 46, 2009, pp. 179-205
  • 2011: David Vogan for The Character Table for E8, Notices of the AMS, Vol 54, 2007, pp. 1122-1134
  • 2010: Bryna Kra for The Green - Tao theorem on arithmetic progressions in the primes: an ergodic point of view. Bulletin of the AMS, Vol 43, 2006, pp. 3-23
  • 2009: John Morgan on Recent Progress on the Poincaré Conjecture and the Classification of 3- Manifolds. Bulletin of the AMS, Vol 42, 2005, pp. 57-78.
  • 2008: J. Brian Conrey for The Riemann Hypothesis. Notices of the AMS, Vol 50, 2003, No. 3, pp. 341-353; and Shlomo Hoory, Nathan Linial, Avi Wigderson for expander graphs and their applications. Bulletin of the AMS, Vol 43, 2006, No. 4, S.439 - 561st
  • 2007: Jeffrey Weeks for The Poincare dodecahedral space and the Mystery of the Missing Fluctuations. Notices of the AMS, Vol 51, 2004, No. 6, pp. 610-619.
  • 2006: Ronald Solomon for A Brief History of the Classification of the Finite Simple Groups. Bulletin of the AMS, Vol 38, 2001, No. 3, pp. 315-352.
  • 2005: Allen Knutson, Terence Tao for Honeycombs and sums of Hermitian matrices. Notices of the AMS, Vol 48, 2001, pp. 175-186
  • 2004: Noam Elkies for Lattices, Linear Codes, and Invariants. Notices of the AMS, Vol 47, 2000, Part 1: No. 10, pp. 1238-45; Part 2: No. 11, pp. 1382-91.
  • 2003: Nicholas Katz, Peter Sarnak for Zeroes of zeta functions and symmetry. Bulletin of the AMS, Vol 36, 1999, pp. 1-26
  • 2002: Elliott Lieb and Jakob Yngvason for A Guide to Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Notices of the AMS, Vol 45, 1998, No. 5, pp. 571-581.
  • 2001: Carl Pomerance for A Tale of Two Sieves. Notices of the AMS Vol 43, No. 12, 1996, pp. 1473-1485
John C. Baez John Morgan (mathematician) Jeffrey Weeks (mathematician) Nick Katz
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