The Mathematical Association of America's
Carl B. Allendoerfer Award



The Carl B. Allendoerfer Awards, established in 1976, are given for articles of expository excellence published in Mathematics Magazine. The Awards are named for Carl B. Allendoerfer, a distinguished mathematician at the University of Washington and President of the Mathematical Association of America, 1959-60. This is an award of $500. Up to two of these awards are given annually at the Summer Meeting of the Association.

List of Recipients

2001 James N. Brawner, Dinner, Dancing, and Tennis, anyone?, Math. Mag. 73 (2000) 29-36.
Rafe James and Jan Pearce, A postmodern view of fractions and reciprocals of Fermat primes, Math. Mag. 73 (2000) 83-97.
2000 Donald Teets and Karen Whitehead, The discovery of Ceres: How Gauss became famous, Math. Mag. 72 (1999) 83-91.

1999 Victor Klee and John R. Reay, Surprising but easily proved geometric decomposition theorem, Math. Mag. 71 (1998)

Donald G. Saari and Fabrice Valognes, Geometry, voting, and paradoxes, Math. Mag. 71 (1998)

1998 Dan Kalman, Robert Mena, and Shahriar Shahriari, Variations on an Irrational Theme--Geometry, Dynamics, Algebra, Math. Mag. 70 (1997), 93-104.

1997 Colm Mulcahy, Plotting and Scheming with Wavelets, Math. Mag. 69 (1996), 323-343.

Lin Tan, Groups of Rational Points on the Unit Circle, Math. Mag. 69 (1996), 163-171.

1996 Judith Grabiner, Descartes and Problem-Solving, Math. Mag. 68 (1995), 83-97.

Daniel J. Velleman and Gregory S. Call, Permutations and Combination Locks, Math. Mag. 68 (1995), 243-253

1995 Lee Badger, Lazzarini's Lucky Approximation of pi, Math. Mag. 67 (1994), 83-91.

Tristan Needham, The Geometry of Harmonic Functions, Math. Mag. 67 (1994), 92-108.

1994 Joan Hutchinson, Coloring Ordinary Maps, Maps of Empires, and Maps of the Moon, Math. Mag. 66 (1993), 211-226.

1993 Xun-cheng Huang, From Intermediate Value Theorem to Chaos, Math. Mag. 65 (1992), 91-103.

1992 Israel Kleiner, Rigor and Proof in Mathematics: An Historical Perspective, Math. Mag. 64 (1991), 291-314.

Gulbank D. Chakerian and David E. Logothetti, Cube Slices, Pictorial Triangulations, and Probability, Math. Mag. 64 (1991), 219-241.

1991 Ranjan Roy, The Discovery of the Series Formula for a by Leibniz, Gregory and Nilakantha, Math. Mag. 63 (1990), 291-306.

1990 Thomas Archibald, Connectivity and Smoke-Rings: Green's Second Identity in Its First Fifty Years, Math. Mag. 62 (1989), 219-232.

Fan K. Chung, Martin Gardner and Ronald L. Graham, Steiner Trees on a Checkerboard, Math. Mag. 62 (1989), 83-96.

1989 W.B. Raymond Lickorish and Kenneth C. Millett, The New Polynomial Invariants of Knots and Links, Math. Mag. 61 (1988), 3-23.

Judith V. Grabiner, The Centrality of Mathematics in the History of Western Thought, Math. Mag. 61 (1988), 220-230.

1988 Bart Braden, Pólya's Geometric Picture of Complex Contour Integrals, Math. Mag. 60, (1987), 321-327.

Steven Galovich, Products of Sines and Cosines, Math. Mag. 60, (1987), 105-113.

1987 Israel Kleiner, The Evolution of Group Theory: A Brief Survey, Math. Mag. 59 (1986), 195-215.

Paul Zorn, The Bieberbach Conjecture, Math. Mag. 59 (1986), 131-148.

1986 Bart Braden, The Design of an Oscillating Sprinkler, Math. Mag. 58 (1985), 29-38.

Saul Stahl, The Other Map Coloring Theorem, Math. Mag. 58 (1985), 131-145.

1985 Frederick S. Gass, Constructive Ordinal Notation Systems, Math. Mag. 57 (1984), 131-141.

Philip D. Straffin, Jr. and Bernard Grofman, Parliamentary Coalitions: A Tour of Models, Math. Mag. 57 (1984), 259-274.

1984 Judith V. Grabiner, The Changing Concept of Change: The Derivative from Fermat to Weierstrass, Math. Mag. 56 (1983), 195-206.

1983 Donald O. Koehler, Mathematics and Literature, Math. Mag. 55 (1982), 81-95.

Clifford H. Wagner, A Generic Approach to Iterative Methods, Math. Mag. 55 (1982), 259-273.

1982 J. Ian Richards, Continued Fractions without Tears, Math. Mag. 54 (1981), 163-171.

Marjorie Senechal, Which Tetrahedra Fill Space?, Math. Mag. 54 (1981), 227-243.

1981 Stephen B. Maurer, The King Chicken Theorems, Math. Mag. 53 (1980), 67-80.

Donald E. Sanderson, Advanced Plane Topology from an Elementary Standpoint, Math. Mag. 53 (1980), 81-89.

1980 Victor L. Klee, Jr., Some Unsolved Problems in Plane Geometry, Math. Mag. 52 (1979), 131-145.

Ernst Snapper, The Three Crises in Mathematics: Logicism, Intuitionism, and Formalism, Math. Mag. 52 (1979), 207-216.

1979 Bruce C. Berndt, Ramanujan's Notebooks, Math. Mag. 51 (1978), 147-164.

1979 Doris W. Schattschneider, Tiling the Plane with Congruent Pentagons, Math. Mag. 51 (1978), 29-44.

1978 Geoffrey C. Shephard and Branko Grünbaum, Tiling by Regular Polygons, Math. Mag. 50 (1977), 227-247.

David A. Smith, Human Population Growth: Stability or Explosion?, Math. Mag. 50 (1977), 186-197.

1977 Joseph A. Gallian, The Search for Finite Simple Groups, Math. Mag. 49 (1976), 163-180.

B.L. van der Waerden, Hamilton's Discovery of Quaternions, Math. Mag. 49 (1976), 227-234.