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 27th. 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) | Nate Bottman | Plato's Ghost: The Modernist Transformation of Mathematics by Jeremy Gray |
Trevor McCarten | The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan by Robert Kanigel | |
Outstanding Graduating B.S (standard major) | Michael Spillane | Is God a Mathematician? by Mario Livio |
Outstanding Graduating ACMS major | Adrian Barnard | The Weather of the Pacific Northwest by Cliff Mass |
Outstanding Graduating B.A. (standard major) | Genia Vogman | Pythagoras' Revenge: A Mathematical Mystery by Arturo Sangelli |
Outstanding Graduating B.A. (Teacher Prep major) | Elisha Allred | Euler's Gem: The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology by David S. Richeson |
Outstanding Student in 2nd Year Honors Calculus | Jerry Li | The Enjoyment of Math by Hans Rademacher and Otto Toeplitz |
Outstanding Student in 1st Year Honors Calculus | Yisong Song | What is Mathematics? by Richard Courant & Herbert Robbins, revised by Ian Stewart |
Outstanding Putnam score by a UW student | Will Johnson | Pioneers of Representation Theory: Frobenius, Burnside, Schur, and Brauer by Charles Curtis |
UW Junior Medal | ||
Gullicksen Award | Tam Do | "e": The Story of a Number by Eli Manor |
Ian Zemke | Six Themes on Variation by Robert Hardt (editor) | |
Tseng Fellowship | Milda Zizyte | Geometry and the Imagination by David Hilbert, S. Cohn-Vossen, and P. Nemenyi (translator) |
UW Sophomore Medal | Mark Bun | The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis |
In addition to the above awards, the team of Mark Bun, Jerry Li, and Ian Zemke were also honored for earning Outstanding Winner in the 2010 Mathematical Modeling Competition.