The Beckenbach Book Prize, formerly known as the Mathematical Association of America Book Prize, is awarded to authors of distinguished, innovative books that have been published by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). The prize, named in honor of Edwin F. Beckenbach, was established in 1983 and first awarded in 1985. The award is $2500 for the honored author and is awarded on an irregular basis. In January 1985 Charles Robert Hadlock was awarded the MAA Book Prize, which later in 1985 became the Beckenbach Book Prize.
Recipients The recipients of the Beckenbach Book Prize and their books are:
1985: Charles Robert Hadlock, Field Theory and Its Classical Problems 1986: Edward W. Packel, The Mathematics of Games and Gambling 1989: Thomas M. Thompson, From Error-Correcting Codes through Sphere Packings to Simple Groups 1994: Steven G. Krantz, Complex Analysis: The Geometric Viewpoint 1996: Constance Reid, The Search for E.T. Bell, Also Known as John Taine 1998: Sandor Szabo and Sherman K. Stein, Algebra and Tiling: Homomorphisms in the Service of Geometry 1999: David M. Bressoud, Proofs and Confirmations: The Story of the Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture 2002: Joseph Kirtland, Identification Numbers and Check Digits Schemes 2004: James Tanton, Solve This: Math Activities for Students and Clubs 2006: Arthur Benjamin and Jennifer Quinn, Proofs That Really Count: the Art of Combinatorial Proof 2007: William P. Berlinghoff and Fernando Q. Gouvêa, Math through the Ages: A Gentle History for Teachers and Others 2008: William Dunham, Euler: The Master of Us All 2012: Dan Kalman, Uncommon Mathematical Excursions: Polynomia and Related Realms 2012: Nathan Carter, Visual Group Theory 2014: Judith Grabiner, A Historian Looks Back: The Calculus as Algebra and Selected Writings 2015: Seth Braver, Lobachevski Illuminated 2017: Tim Chartier, When Life is Linear: From Computer Graphics to Bracketology 2018: Roland van der Veen and Jan van de Craats, The Riemann Hypothesis: A Million Dollar Problem 2021: Nathan Carter, Introduction to the Mathematics of Computer Graphics 2022: Ron Taylor and Patrick X. Rault, A TeXas-Style Introduction to Proof 2024: Roger B. Nelsen, Nuggets of Number Theory: A Visual Approach 2025: Claudi Alsina and Roger B. Nelsen A panoply of polygons
See also Euler Book Prize List of mathematics awards
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