Euler Book Prize

The Euler Book Prize is a prize of the Mathematical Association of America for popular science or tacking to the general public books on mathematics. It is named after Leonard Euler and has been awarded for its 300th year of death 2007. Was donated by Paul Halmos the price and his wife Virginia. The book may not be older than five years and must be published in English. The prize is worth $ 2,000.

Award winners

• 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, AK 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 (Editor and co-author) The Princeton Companion to Mathematics, Princeton University Press 2008
• 2012 Daina Taimina Crocheting Adventures with hyperbolic planes, AK Peters 2009 ( book with knitting patterns for the hyperbolic plane, Foreword William Thurston )
• 2013 Persi Diaconis, Ronald Graham Magical Mathematics. The mathematical ideas did 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