Paul R. Halmos – Lester R. Ford Award
The Paul R. Halmos – Lester R. Ford Award (formerly known as the Lester R. Ford Award) is a $1,000 prize given annually by the Mathematical Association of America for authors of articles of expository excellence published in The American Mathematical Monthly or Mathematics Magazine.[1] It is awarded to at most four authors each year.[1] The prize was established in 1964 as the Lester R. Ford Award to honor the contributions of mathematician and former MAA president Lester R. Ford.[1] In 2012 the award was renamed the Paul R. Halmos – Lester R. Ford Award to honor the contributions of former The American Mathematical Monthly editor Paul R. Halmos and the support of the Halmos family for the awards.[1] Halmos himself received the award in 1971 and 1977.
Recipients
    
The recipients of the Paul R. Halmos – Lester R. Ford Award are:[1]
- 2021: J. H. Conway, M. S. Paterson, and Moscow (U.S.S.R.)
 - 2021: Brian S. Thomson
 - 2021: Zhaodong Cai, Matthew Faust, A. J. Hildebrand, Junxian Li, and Yuan Zhang
 - 2021: Ben Blum-Smith and Japheth Wood
 
- 2020: Daniel Ullman and Daniel Velleman
 - 2020: Colin Adams, Allison Henrich, Kate Kearney, and Nicholas Scoville
 - 2020: John B. Little
 - 2020: Balázs Gerencsér and Viktor Harangi
 - 2019: Adrian Rice
 - 2019: Jonathan Borwein and Robert M. Corless
 - 2019: Andrew Granville
 - 2019: Kenneth S. Williams
 - 2018: Paul E. Becker, Martin Derka, Sheridan Houghten and Jennifer Ulrich
 - 2018: Maria Deijfen, Alexander E. Holroyd and James B. Martin
 - 2018: Francis E. Su
 - 2018: Michael Barnsley and Andrew Vince
 - 2017: Deborah Kent and David Muraki
 - 2017: Adrien Kassel and David B. Wilson
 - 2017: Lawrence Zalcman
 - 2017: Harold P. Boas
 - 2016: Zhiqin Lu and Julie Rowlett
 - 2016: Manya Raman-Sundström
 - 2016: Kenneth S. Williams
 - 2016: Alex Chin, Gary Gordon, Kellie MacPhee, and Charles Vincent
 - 2015: Mario Ponce and Patricio Santibanez
 - 2015: Erwan Brugallé and Kristin Shaw
 - 2015: Daniel Velleman
 - 2015: Allison Henrich and Louis H Kauffman
 - 2014: Will Traves
 - 2014: Susan H. Marshall and Alexander R. Perlis
 - 2014: Jacques Lévy Véhel and Franklin Mendivil
 - 2014: Tadashi Tokieda
 - 2013: Robert T. Jantzen and Klaus Volpert
 - 2013: Lionel Levine and Katherine E. Stange
 - 2013: Dimitris Koukoulopoulos and Johann Thiel
 - 2013: Dan Kalman and Mark McKinzie
 
The recipients of the Lester R. Ford Award are:[1][2]
- 2012: David A. Cox
 - 2012: Graham Everest and Tom Ward
 - 2012: Peter Sarnak
 - 2012: Ravi Vakil
 - 2011: Aaron Abrams and Skip Garibaldi
 - 2011: Alexander Borisov, Mark Dickinson, and Stuart Hastings
 - 2011: James T. Smith
 - 2011: Mark Conger and Jason Howald
 - 2011: Marvin Jay Greenberg
 - 2010: Bob Palais, Richard Palais, and Stephen Rodi
 - 2010: Jerzy Kocik and Andrzej Solecki
 - 2010: Judith Grabiner
 - 2010: Mike Paterson and Uri Zwick
 - 2010: Tom M. Apostol and Mamikon A. Mnatsakanian
 - 2009: Andrew Bashelor, Amy Ksir, and Will Traves
 - 2009: Andrew Granville
 - 2009: Dan Kalman
 - 2009: Michel Balinski
 - 2008: Andrew Cohen and Tanya Leise
 - 2008: David Auckly
 - 2008: Katherine Socha
 - 2008: Thomas C. Hales
 - 2008: Tom M. Apostol and Mamikon A. Mnatsakanian
 - 2007: Andrew Granville and Greg Martin
 - 2007: Harold P. Boas
 - 2007: Jeffrey C. Lagarias
 - 2007: Lluís Bibiloni, Jaume Paradís, and Pelegrí Viader
 - 2007: Michael J. Mossinghoff
 - 2006: Edward B. Burger
 - 2006: Ibetsam Bajunaid, Joel M. Cohen, Flavia Colonna, and David Singman
 - 2006: Karl Dilcher and Kenneth B. Stolarsky
 - 2006: Viktor Blåsjö
 - 2006: William Dunham
 - 2005: Alan Edelman and Gilbert Strang
 - 2005: Henry Cohn
 - 2005: Judith Grabiner
 - 2005: Steven Finch and John Wetzel
 - 2005: Tom Apostol and Mamikon Mnatsakanian
 - 2004: Charles Livingston
 - 2004: Noam Elkies
 - 2004: R. Michael Range
 - 2004: Ruediger Thiele
 - 2003: Eleanor Robson
 - 2003: Leonard Gillman
 - 2003: Sam Northshield
 - 2003: Sergio B. Volchan
 - 2003: Warren P. Johnson
 - 2002: David Lindsay Roberts
 - 2002: Dirk Huylebrouck
 - 2002: Greg Martin
 - 2002: Peter Borwein & Loki Jorgenson
 - 2001: E.R. Scheinerman
 - 2001: Keith Kendig
 - 2000: P.J. McKenna
 - 2000: Vilmos Totik
 - 2000: William Terrell
 - 1999: Bernd Sturmfels
 - 1999: Jerry L. Kazdan
 - 1999: Yoav Benyamini
 - 1998: Bruce Pourciau
 - 1998: Judith V. Grabiner
 - 1998: S. C. Coutinho
 - 1997: Alan F. Beardon
 - 1997: John Brillhart and Patrick Morton
 - 1997: Robert G. Bartle
 - 1996: John Oprea
 - 1996: Martin Aigner
 - 1996: Sheldon Axler
 - 1995: Fernando Q. Gouvea
 - 1995: Israel Kleiner
 - 1995: Jonathan L. King
 - 1995: N. Movshovitz-Hadar
 - 1995: Robert Gray
 - 1995: William C. Waterhouse
 - 1994: Bruce C. Berndt
 - 1994: Dan Velleman
 - 1994: Edgar R. Lorch
 - 1994: Istvan Szalkai
 - 1994: Joseph H. Silverman
 - 1994: Leonard Gillman
 - 1994: Reuben Hersh
 - 1994: S. Bhargava
 - 1993: Carsten Thomassen
 - 1993: Donald E. Knuth
 - 1992: Clement W.H. Lam
 - 1991: Edward Scheinerman
 - 1991: Frances Yao
 - 1991: Joyce Justicz
 - 1991: Marcel Y. Berger
 - 1991: Peter Winkler
 - 1991: Ronald L. Graham
 - 1990: Chee K. Yap
 - 1990: Doron Zeilberger
 - 1990: Jacob Goodman
 - 1990: Janos Pach
 - 1989: Bruce C. Berndt
 - 1989: Gert Almkvist
 - 1989: Richard Guy
 - 1988: James Epperson
 - 1988: Stan Wagon
 - 1987: David Yost
 - 1987: Howard Hiller
 - 1987: Jacob Korevaar
 - 1987: Joan Cleary
 - 1987: Peter Neumann
 - 1987: Sidney Morris
 - 1987: Stuart S. Antman
 - 1986: Jeffrey Lagarias
 - 1986: Michael Taylor
 - 1985: Donald G. Saari
 - 1985: John B. Urenko
 - 1985: John D. Dixon
 - 1984: Joel Spencer
 - 1984: John W. Milnor
 - 1984: Judith Grabiner
 - 1984: Roger E. Howe
 - 1984: William C. Waterhouse
 - 1983: Robert F. Brown
 - 1983: Robert S. Strichartz
 - 1983: Tony Rothman
 - 1982: Philip J. Davis
 - 1982: R. Arthur Knoebel
 - 1981: Alan H. Schoenfeld
 - 1981: Bruce H. Pourciau
 - 1981: Edward R. Swart
 - 1981: Lawrence A. Zalcman
 - 1981: R. Creighton Buck
 - 1980: Cathleen S. Morawetz
 - 1980: David Gale
 - 1980: Desmond P. Fearnley-Sander
 - 1980: Karel Hrbacek
 - 1980: Robert Osserman
 - 1979: Bradley Efron
 - 1979: Joseph B. Kruskal
 - 1979: Kenneth I. Gross
 - 1979: Lawrence A. Shepp
 - 1979: Ned Glick
 - 1978: Louis H. Kauffman
 - 1978: Neil J.A. Sloane
 - 1978: Ralph P. Boas
 - 1978: Thomas F. Banchoff
 - 1977: Daihachiro Sato
 - 1977: Donald S. Passman
 - 1977: Douglas Wiens
 - 1977: Hideo Wada
 - 1977: J.H. Ewing
 - 1977: James P. Jones
 - 1977: Joseph B. Keller
 - 1977: Paul R. Halmos
 - 1977: S.H. Moolgavkar
 - 1977: Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar
 - 1977: William H. Gustafson
 - 1977: William H. Wheeler
 - 1977: William P. Ziemer
 - 1976: Branko Grunbaum
 - 1976: David W. McLaughlin
 - 1976: Edward A. Bender
 - 1976: H.P. Young
 - 1976: James E. Humphreys
 - 1976: Jay R. Goldman
 - 1976: Joseph B. Keller
 - 1976: Justin J. Price
 - 1976: Michel L. Balinski
 - 1975: Donald E. Knuth
 - 1975: J. Callahan
 - 1975: Johannes C.C. Nitsche
 - 1975: Lawrence A. Zalcman
 - 1975: R. Ayoub
 - 1975: Sherman K. Stein
 - 1974: Garrett Birkhoff
 - 1974: I.J. Schoenberg
 - 1974: Lynn Arthur Steen
 - 1974: Martin D. Davis
 - 1974: Patrick Billingsley
 - 1974: R.J. Wilson
 - 1973: Jean A. Dieudonne
 - 1973: Lynn Arthur Steen
 - 1973: Peter D. Lax
 - 1973: Raymond L. Wilder
 - 1973: Samuel Karlin
 - 1973: Thomas L. Saaty
 - 1972: Frederick Cunningham, Jr.
 - 1972: Gulbank D. Chakerian
 - 1972: Leon Henkin
 - 1972: Lester H. Lange
 - 1972: Paul M. Cohn
 - 1972: Victor Klee
 - 1972: William J. Ellison
 - 1971: Eric Langford
 - 1971: George Forsythe
 - 1971: Jean A. Dieudonne
 - 1971: Olga Taussky
 - 1971: Paul R. Halmos
 - 1971: Peter V. O'Neil
 - 1970: Henry L. Alder
 - 1970: Ivan Niven
 - 1970: John W. Milnor
 - 1970: Norman Levinson
 - 1970: Ralph P. Boas
 - 1970: William A. Coppel
 - 1969: Albert Wilansky
 - 1969: George Forsythe
 - 1969: Harley Flanders
 - 1969: Hassler Whitney
 - 1969: Marcel F. Neuts
 - 1969: Pierre Samuel
 - 1968: Daniel Pedoe
 - 1968: Frederick Cunningham, Jr.
 - 1968: Hans J. Zassenhaus
 - 1968: Keith L. Phillips
 - 1968: Margaret Maxfield and F. V. Waugh
 - 1968: W.F. Newns
 - 1967: D.R. Fulkerson
 - 1967: M.Z. Nashed
 - 1967: Mark Kac
 - 1967: Paul B. Yale
 - 1967: Wai-Kai Chen
 - 1966: Carl B. Allendoerfer
 - 1966: Henryk Minc
 - 1966: Marvin Marcus
 - 1966: Peter D. Lax
 - 1965: Elmer Tolsted
 - 1965: Hartley Rogers, Jr.
 - 1965: Louis Brand
 - 1965: R. Duncan Luce
 - 1965: R.H. Bing
 - 1965: Robert G. Kuller
 
See also
    
    
References
    
- Paul R. Halmos – Lester R. Ford Awards on the website of the Mathematical Association of America.
 -  Recognizing excellence in the mathematical sciences : an international compilation of awards, prizes, and recipients. Jaguszewski, Janice M. Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press. 1997. ISBN 0762302356. OCLC 37513025.
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External links
    
- Paul R. Halmos - Lester R. Ford Awards on the website of the Mathematical Association of America. Includes a list of past recipients.