2011 Math Department undergraduate awards

Submitted by Rose Choi on

Outstanding undergraduate Mathematics and ACMS majors were honored with awards given at this year's Honors Luncheon on June 2nd. Each student was given a book reflecting their mathematical interests, along with a reward stipend. A full list of this year's awardees and their chosen books follows.

Award Student Book Given
Outstanding Graduating B.S. (comprehensive major) Chad Klumb Pioneers of Representation Theory: Frobenius, Burnside, Schur, and Brauer by Charles W. Curtis
Outstanding Graduating B.S (standard major) Will Johnson Is God a Mathematician? by Mario Livio
Courtney Kempton The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Taleb
Andrew Ohana Music of the Spheres: Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics by Marcus du Sautoy
Outstanding Graduating ACMS major Bradley Medlock The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth by Paul Hoffman
Outstanding Graduating B.A. (Teacher Prep major) Michelle Minato Journey through Genius: Great Theorems of Mathematics by William Dunham
Outstanding Student in 2nd Year Honors Calculus Katia Nepomnyashchaya Charming Proofs: A Journey into Elegant Mathematics (Dolciani Mathematical Expositions) by Claudi Alsina, R.B. Nelson
Outstanding Student in 1st Year Honors Calculus Shao-Chieh (Jerry) Cheng Yearning for the Impossible: The Surprising Truths of Mathematics by John Stillwell
Goldwater Scholarship Mark Bun The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil
Jane Hung The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom by Graham Farmelo
Gullicksen Award for Outstanding Juniors in Mathematics Mark Bun The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil
Dylan Wilson Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo by Galileo and Stillman Drake (translator)
Putnam Exam, Top 500 Placement Will Johnson (also Outstanding Score for a UW Student) Is God a Mathematician? by Mario Livio
Chad Klumb Pioneers of Representation Theory: Frobenius, Burnside, Schur, and Brauer by Charles W. Curtis
Steven Portzer My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles by Martin Gardner
Keyun Tong The Shoelace Book: A Mathematical Guide to the Best (and Worst) Ways to Lace Your Shoes by Burkhard Polster
Tseng Fellowship Gracie Ingermanson Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis et al.
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