Chauvenet Prize
The Chauvenet Prize is the highest U.S. award for explanatory representation of mathematical knowledge ( Expository Writing Mathematical ) and is awarded by the Mathematical Association of America ( MAA) annually. The prize is worth $ 1,000 in prize money. It is named in honor of William Chauvenet ( a math professor at the U.S. Naval Academy) and has been awarded since 1925, thanks to a donation by Julian Lowell Coolidge ( 1873-1954 ), professor and chairman of the mathematics department at Harvard and at the time President the MAA. Many of the award-winning work has appeared in the American Mathematical Monthly, the magazine of the MAA.