The Carl B. Allendoerfer Award is presented annually by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) for "expository excellence published in Mathematics Magazine."Allendoerfer Award, MAA, retrieved 2014-04-30. it is named after mathematician Carl B. Allendoerfer who was president of the MAA 1959–60.Carl Barnett Allendoerfer, 1959-1960 MAA President, MAA, retrieved 2014-04-30.

Recipients Recipients of the Carl B. Allendoerfer Award have included: RecipientYearArticleJohn Chase and Matthew Wright2024Bacterial Growth: Not So SimpleAlissa S. Crans and Glen T. Whitney2024Integral Tiling PentagonsTien Chih and Demitri Plessas2023A Search for Champion BoxersSteven J. Brams and Peter S. Landweber2023Three Persons, Two Cuts: A New Cake-Cutting AlgorithmDavid Hunter and Chisondi Warioba2022Segregation SurfacesKaity Parsons, Peter Tingley and Emma Zajdela2022When to Hold ‘EmNancy Ho, James Godzik, Jennifer Jones, Thomas W. Mattman, and Dan Sours2021Invisible Knots and Rainbow Rings: Knots Not Determined by Their DeterminantsJocelyn R. Bell and Frank Wattenberg2021The Slippery Duck TheoremBeth Malmskog and Kathryn Haymaker2020What (Quilting) Circles Can Be Squared?Juan Arias de Reyna, David Clark, and Noam Elkies2020A Modern Solution to the Gion Shrine ProblemWilliam Dunham2019The Early (and Peculiar) History of the Möbius FunctionJordan Bell and Viktor Blåsjö2019Pietro Mengoli’s 1650 Proof that the Harmonic Series DivergesFumiko Futamura and Robert Lehr2018A New Perspective on Finding the ViewpointBrian Conrey, James Gabbard, Katie Grant, Andrew Liu, and Kent Morrison2017Intransitive DiceVladimir Pozdnyakov and J. Michael Steele2017Buses, Bullies, and BijectionsJulia Barnes, Clinton Curry, Elizabeth Russell, and Lisbeth Schaubroeck2016Emerging Julia SetsIrl Bivens and Ben Klein2016The Median Value of a Continuous FunctionDaniel Heath2015Straightedge and Compass Constructions in Spherical GeometryAndrew Beveridge and Stan Wagon 2015The Sorting Hat Goes to CollegeSally Cockburn and Joshua Lesperance2014Deranged SocksSusan Marshall and Donald Smith2014Feedback, Control, and Distribution of Prime NumbersKhristo N. Boyadzhiev2013Close Encounters with the Stirling Numbers of the Second KindAdrian Rice and Ezra A. Brown2013Why Ellipses Are Not Elliptic CurvesP. Mark Kayll2012Integrals Don't Have Anything to Do with Discrete Math, Do They?John A. Adam2012Blood Vessel Branching: Beyond the Standard Calculus ProblemCurtis D. Bennett, Blake Mellor, and Patrick Shanahan2011Drawing a Triangle on the Thurston Model of Hyperbolic SpaceGene Abrams and Jessica Sklar2011The Graph Menagerie: Abstract Algebra and the Mad VeterinarianDavid Speyer and Bernd Sturmfels2010Tropical MathematicsEzra Brown and Keith Mellinger2010Kirkman's Schoolgirls Wearing Hats and Walking Through Fields of NumbersJeff Suzuki2009A Brief History of ImpossibilityVesna Stojanoska and Orlin Stoytchev2009Touching the in Three-Dimensional RotationsChris Christensen2009Polish Mathematicians Finding Patterns in Enigma MessagesEugene Boman, Richard Brazier, and Derek Seiple2008Mom! There's an Astroid in My Closet!Saul Stahl2008The Evolution of the Normal DistributionCarl V. Lutzer2007Hammer Juggling, Rotational Instability, and EigenvaluesJeff Suzuki2006The Lost Calculus (1637-1670): Tangency and Optimization without LimitsRobb T. Koether and John K. Osinach, Jr.2006Outwitting the Lying OracleRoger B. Eggleton and William P. Galvin2005Upper Bounds on the Sum of Principal Divisors of an IntegerCharles I. Delman and Gregory Galperin2004A Tale of Three CirclesEzra Brown2003The Many Names of (7,3,1)Dan Kalman2003Doubly Recursive Multivariate Automatic DifferentiationMark McKinzie and Curtis Tuckey2002Higher Trigonometry, Hyperreal Numbers, and Euler's Analysis of InfinitiesJames N. Brawner2001Dinner, Dancing, and Tennis, Anyone?Raphael Falk Jones and Janice L. Pearce2001A Postmodern View of Fractions and the Reciprocals of Fermat PrimesDonald Teets and Karen Whitehead2000The Discovery of Ceres: How Gauss Became FamousDonald G. Saari and Fabrice Valognes1999Geometry, Voting, and ParadoxesVictor Klee and John R. Reay1999A Surprising but Easily Proved Geometric Decomposition TheoremDan Kalman, Robert Mena, and Shahriar Shahriari1998Variations on an Irrational Theme-Geometry, Dynamics, AlgebraLin Tan1997The Group of Rational Points on the Unit CircleColm Mulcahy1997Plotting and Scheming with WaveletsDaniel J. Velleman and Gregory S. Call1996Permutations and Combination LocksJudith Grabiner1996Descartes and Problem-SolvingTristan Needham1995The Geometry of Harmonic FunctionsLee Badgett1995Lazzarini's Lucky Approximation of piJoan P. Hutchinson1994Coloring Ordinary Maps, Maps of Empires, and Maps of the MoonXun-Cheng Huang1993From Intermediate Value Theorem to ChaosDavid Logothetti1992Cube Slices, Pictorial Triangles, and ProbabilityIsrael Kleiner1992Rigor and Proof in Mathematics: A Historical PerspectiveGulbank D. Chakerian1992Cube Slices, Pictorial Triangles, and ProbabilityRanjan Roy1991The Discovery of the Series Formula for π by Leibniz, Gregory, and NilakanthaRonald L. Graham1990Martin Gardner1990Fan Chung1990Steiner Trees on a CheckerboardThomas Archibald1990Connectivity and Smoke-Rings: Green's Second Identity in Its First Fifty YearsKenneth C. Millett1989W.B. Raymond Lickorish1989The New Polynomial Invariants of Knots and LinksJudith Grabiner1989The Centrality of Mathematics in the History of Western ThoughtSteven Galovich1988Products of Sines and CosinesBart Braden1988Pólya's Geometric Picture of Complex Contour IntegralsPaul Zorn1987The Bieberbach ConjectureIsrael Kleiner1987The Evolution of Group Theory: A Brief SurveySaul Stahl1986The Other Map Coloring TheoremBart Braden1986Design of an Oscillating SprinklerPhilip D. Straffin, Jr.1985Parliamentary Coalitions: A Tour of ModelsBernard Grofman1985Frederick S. Gass1985Constructive Ordinal Notation SystemsJudith Grabiner1984The Changing Concept of Change: The Derivative from Fermat to WeierstrassClifford Wagner1983A Generic Approach to Iterative MethodsDonald Koehler1983Mathematics and LiteratureMarjorie Senechal1982Which Tetrahedra Fill Space?J. Ian Richards1982Continued Fractions without TearsDonald E. Sanderson1981Advanced Plane Topology from an Elementary StandpointStephen B. Maurer1981The King Chicken TheoremsErnst Snapper1980The Three Crises in Mathematics: Logicism, Intuitionism, and FormalismVictor Klee1980Some Unsolved Problems in Plane GeometryDoris Schattschneider1979Tiling the Plane with Congruent PentagonsBruce C. Berndt1979Ramanujan's NotebooksDavid A. Smith1978Human Population Growth: Stability or Explosion?Geoffrey C. Shephard1978Tilings by Regular PolygonsBranko Grünbaum1978B.L. van der Waerden1977Hamilton's Discovery of QuaternionsJoseph A. Gallian1977The Search for Finite Simple Groups

See also

List of mathematics awards

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