| Recipient
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Year
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Article
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| David Hunter and Chisondi Warioba
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2022
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Segregation Surfaces
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| Beth Malmskog and Kathryn Haymaker
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2020
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What (Quilting) Circles Can Be Squared?
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| William Dunham
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2019
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The Early (and Peculiar) History of the Möbius Function
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| Jordan Bell and Viktor Blåsjö
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2019
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Pietro Mengoli’s 1650 Proof that the Harmonic Series Diverges
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| Fumiko Futamura and Robert Lehr
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2018
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A New Perspective on Finding the Viewpoint
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| Brian Conrey, James Gabbard, Katie Grant, Andrew Liu, and Kent Morrison
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2017
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Intransitive Dice
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| Vladimir Pozdnyakov and J. Michael Steele
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2017
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Buses, Bullies, and Bijections
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| Julia Barnes, Clinton Curry, Elizabeth Russell, and Lisbeth Schaubroeck
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2016
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Emerging Julia Sets
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| Irl Bivens and Ben Klein
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2016
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The Median Value of a Continuous Function
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| Daniel Heath
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2015
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Straightedge and Compass Constructions in Spherical Geometry
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| Andrew Beveridge and Stan Wagon
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2015
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The Sorting Hat Goes to College
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| Sally Cockburn and Joshua Lesperance
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2014
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Deranged Socks
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| Susan Marshall and Donald Smith
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2014
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Feedback, Control, and Distribution of Prime Numbers
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| Khristo N. Boyadzhiev
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2013
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Close Encounters with the Stirling Numbers of the Second Kind
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| Adrian Rice and Ezra A. Brown
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2013
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Why Ellipses Are Not Elliptic Curves
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| P. Mark Kayll
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2012
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Integrals Don't Have Anything to Do with Discrete Math, Do They?
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| John A. Adam
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2012
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Blood Vessel Branching: Beyond the Standard Calculus Problem
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| Curtis D. Bennett, Blake Mellor, and Patrick Shanahan
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2011
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Drawing a Triangle on the Thurston Model of Hyperbolic Space
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| Gene Abrams and Jessica Sklar
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2011
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The Graph Menagerie: Abstract Algebra and the Mad Veterinarian
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| David Speyer and Bernd Sturmfels
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2010
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Tropical Mathematics
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| Ezra Brown and Keith Mellinger
|
2010
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Kirkman's Schoolgirls Wearing Hats and Walking Through Fields of Numbers
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| Jeff Suzuki
|
2009
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A Brief History of Impossibility
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| Vesna Stojanoska and Orlin Stoytchev
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2009
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Touching the Z2 in Three-Dimensional Rotations
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| Chris Christensen
|
2009
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Polish Mathematicians Finding Patterns in Enigma Messages
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| Eugene Boman, Richard Brazier, and Derek Seiple
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2008
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Mom! There's an Astroid in My Closet!
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| Saul Stahl
|
2008
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The Evolution of the Normal Distribution
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| Carl V. Lutzer
|
2007
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Hammer Juggling, Rotational Instability, and Eigenvalues
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| Jeff Suzuki
|
2006
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The Lost Calculus (1637-1670): Tangency and Optimization without Limits
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| Robb T. Koether and John K. Osinach, Jr.
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2006
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Outwitting the Lying Oracle
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| Roger B. Eggleton and William P. Galvin
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2005
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Upper Bounds on the Sum of Principal Divisors of an Integer
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| Charles I. Delman and Gregory Galperin
|
2004
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A Tale of Three Circles
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| Ezra Brown
|
2003
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The Many Names of (7,3,1)
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| Dan Kalman
|
2003
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Doubly Recursive Multivariate Automatic Differentiation
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| Mark McKinzie and Curtis Tuckey
|
2002
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Higher Trigonometry, Hyperreal Numbers, and Euler's Analysis of Infinities
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| James N. Brawner
|
2001
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Dinner, Dancing, and Tennis, Anyone?
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| Raphael Falk Jones and Janice L. Pearce
|
2001
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A Postmodern View of Fractions and the Reciprocals of Fermat Primes
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| Donald Teets and Karen Whitehead
|
2000
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The Discovery of Ceres: How Gauss Became Famous
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| Donald G. Saari and Fabrice Valognes
|
1999
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Geometry, Voting, and Paradoxes
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| Victor Klee and John R. Reay
|
1999
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A Surprising but Easily Proved Geometric Decomposition Theorem
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| Dan Kalman, Robert Mena, and Shahriar Shahriari
|
1998
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Variations on an Irrational Theme-Geometry, Dynamics, Algebra
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| Lin Tan
|
1997
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The Group of Rational Points on the Unit Circle
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| Colm Mulcahy
|
1997
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Plotting and Scheming with Wavelets
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| Daniel J. Velleman and Gregory S. Call
|
1996
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Permutations and Combination Locks
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| Judith Grabiner
|
1996
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Descartes and Problem-Solving
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| Tristan Needham
|
1995
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The Geometry of Harmonic Functions
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| Lee Badgett
|
1995
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Lazzarini's Lucky Approximation of pi
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| Joan P. Hutchinson
|
1994
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Coloring Ordinary Maps, Maps of Empires, and Maps of the Moon
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| Xun-Cheng Huang
|
1993
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From Intermediate Value Theorem to Chaos
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| David Logothetti
|
1992
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Cube Slices, Pictorial Triangles, and Probability
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| Israel Kleiner
|
1992
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Rigor and Proof in Mathematics: A Historical Perspective
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| Gulbank D. Chakerian
|
1992
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Cube Slices, Pictorial Triangles, and Probability
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| Ranjan Roy
|
1991
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The Discovery of the Series Formula for π by Leibniz, Gregory, and Nilakantha
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| Ronald L. Graham
|
1990
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| Martin Gardner
|
1990
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| Fan Chung
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1990
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Steiner Trees on a Checkerboard
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| Thomas Archibald
|
1990
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Connectivity and Smoke-Rings: Green's Second Identity in Its First Fifty Years
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| Kenneth C. Millett
|
1989
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| W.B. Raymond Lickorish
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1989
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The New Polynomial Invariants of Knots and Links
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| Judith Grabiner
|
1989
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The Centrality of Mathematics in the History of Western Thought
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| Steven Galovich
|
1988
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Products of Sines and Cosines
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| Bart Braden
|
1988
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Pólya's Geometric Picture of Complex Contour Integrals
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| Paul Zorn
|
1987
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The Bieberbach Conjecture
|
| Israel Kleiner
|
1987
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The Evolution of Group Theory: A Brief Survey
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| Saul Stahl
|
1986
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The Other Map Coloring Theorem
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| Bart Braden
|
1986
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Design of an Oscillating Sprinkler
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| Philip D. Straffin, Jr.
|
1985
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Parliamentary Coalitions: A Tour of Models
|
| Bernard Grofman
|
1985
|
|
| Frederick S. Gass
|
1985
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Constructive Ordinal Notation Systems
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| Judith Grabiner
|
1984
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The Changing Concept of Change: The Derivative from Fermat to Weierstrass
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| Clifford Wagner
|
1983
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A Generic Approach to Iterative Methods
|
| Donald Koehler
|
1983
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Mathematics and Literature
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| Marjorie Senechal
|
1982
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Which Tetrahedra Fill Space?
|
| J. Ian Richards
|
1982
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Continued Fractions without Tears
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| Donald E. Sanderson
|
1981
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Advanced Plane Topology from an Elementary Standpoint
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| Stephen B. Maurer
|
1981
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The King Chicken Theorems
|
| Ernst Snapper
|
1980
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The Three Crises in Mathematics: Logicism, Intuitionism, and Formalism
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| Victor Klee
|
1980
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Some Unsolved Problems in Plane Geometry
|
| Doris Schattschneider
|
1979
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Tiling the Plane with Congruent Pentagons
|
| Bruce C. Berndt
|
1979
|
Ramanujan's Notebooks
|
| David A. Smith
|
1978
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Human Population Growth: Stability or Explosion?
|
| Geoffrey C. Shephard
|
1978
|
Tilings by Regular Polygons
|
| Branko Grünbaum
|
1978
|
|
| B.L. van der Waerden
|
1977
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Hamilton's Discovery of Quaternions
|
| Joseph A. Gallian
|
1977
|
The Search for Finite Simple Groups
|