News Release
RICHARD P. STANLEY WINS
AMS STEELE PRIZE
Michael Breen, or Annette Emerson, AMS Public Awareness Officers
Email: pa-office@ams.org
Telephone: 401-455-4000
Fax: 401-331-3842
January 11, 2001
PROVIDENCE, RIóRichard P. Stanley, a mathematician at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, has won the 2001 Leroy P. Steele Prize for
Mathematical
Exposition. Presented by the American Mathematical Society, the Steele
Prize is one of the highest distinctions in mathematics. The prize
will be awarded today at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in New Orleans.
Professor Stanley is being honored for his two-volume work Enumerative
Combinatorics (volume 1 published by Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole in
1986, and volume 2 published by Cambridge University Press in 1999).
The citation for the prize says that the field of enumerative combinatorics
"has been expanding and evolving very rapidly, and it is quite remarkable
that Stanley has been able to take a still photograph of it, so to speak,
that beautifully captures its subject."
Founded in 1888 to further mathematical research and scholarship, the
30,000-member American Mathematical Society fulfills its mission through
programs and services that promote mathematical research and its uses,
strengthen mathematical education, and foster awareness and appreciation
of mathematics and its connections to other disciplines and to everyday
life.
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