Submitted by Rose Choi
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Outstanding undergraduate Mathematics and ACMS majors were honored with awards given at the annual Honors Luncheon on May 28th. In addition to an award stipend, each student was given a book reflecting their mathematical interests. A full list of this year's awardees and their accompanying books follows.
Award | Student | Book Given |
Outstanding Graduating B.S. (comprehensive major) | Ben Hayes | Symmetry and the Monster: The Story of One of the Greatest Quests of Mathematics, by Mark Ronan |
Ming Li | Isaac Newton by James Gleick | |
Outstanding Graduating B.S (standard major) | Eric Nitardy | The Poincare Conjecture: In Search of the Shape of the Universe by Donal O'Shea |
Outstanding Graduating ACMS major | Stephen Barr | Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? by Philip Tetlock |
Outstanding Graduating B.A. (standard major) | Alisher Khussainov | A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar |
Outstanding Graduating B.A. (Teacher Prep major) | John Griffin | Euler's Gem: The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology by David Richeson |
Outstanding Student in 2nd Year Honors Calculus | Will Johnson | Computability and Unsolvability by Martin Davis |
Outstanding Student in 1st Year Honors Calculus | Keyun Tong | The Best of All Possible Worlds: Mathematics and Destiny by Ivar Ekeland |
Gullicksen Award | Chad Klumb | King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry by Siobhan Roberts |
Trevor McCarten | Leonhard Euler by Emil A. Fellmann, E. Gautschi (translator), and W. Gautschi (translator) | |
Outstanding Putnam Team | Nate Bottman | Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity by Loren Graham |
Will Johnson | Computability and Unsolvability by Martin Davis | |
Igor Tolkov | What is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods by Richard Courant, Herbert Robbins, and Ian Stewart |