Other Prizes and Awards Supported by the AMS

Below are other prizes and awards that are supported in some way by the American Mathematical Society:

National Academy of Sciences Award in Mathematics
This award, established by the AMS in 1988 in commemoration of its Centennial, was funded mainly by gifts to the Society from Morris Yachter and Sydney Gould.  The US$5,000 award is given every four years for excellence of research in the mathematical sciences published within the past ten years.

Recipients:
2008:  Clifford H. Taubes
2004 :  Dan Virgil Voiculescu
2000 :  Ingrid Daubechies
1996 :  Andrew J. Wiles
1992 :  Robert MacPherson
1988 :  Robert P. Langlands

AMS Award for Outstanding Pi Mu Epsilon Student Paper Presentation
The AMS sponsors annual prizes that are awarded by Pi Mu Epsilon (PME), the national honorary mathematics society.  The prizes were initiated in 1989 in honor of PME's seventy-fifth anniversary.  PME administers the prizes and uses them to recognize the best student paper(s) presented at a PME student paper session.

Recipients: 
2007:  Jeff Cornfield, Tyler Drombosky, Rachel Grotheer, David Horn, Sara Jensen, William Ryan Livingston, Matt Ward.
2006 :  Tara Cruickshank, David Gohlke, Sara Jensen, Lee Kennard, David Martin, William Stanton, Jeffrey Ward.
2005 :  Jason Brinker, Jennifer Carmichael, Stephanie Deacon, David Gohlke, Angela Hicks, David Martin, Maria Salcedo, Tina Smith.
2004 :  Stephanie Barille, Nathan Edington, Jeremy Hamilton, Colleen Hughes, Theodore Stadnik, Ryan Sternberg, Alyssa Wood.
2003 :  Chris Jones, Emily King, Marta Kobiela, Derek Pope, Brenda Russo, Maria Salcedo, Barbara Sexton.
2002 :  Elizabeth Donovan, Ed Kenney, Borislav Mezhericher, F. Ronald Ogborne, Teresa Selee, Robert Shuttleworth, Brian Wyman.
2001 :  Eric Appelt, Erin Bergman, Dave Gerberry, Brenda Johnson, Yakov Kronrod, Brian Muscia, Tom Wakefield, Kathy Woodside.
2000 :  Erin M. Bergman, John T. Griesmer, Yakov Kronrod, Sarah Lalumia, Joel Lepak, Judy Maendel, Kathryn Rendall, Thomas Wakefield.
1999:   Robin Driesner, Jeffrey Dumont, Sanjai Kumar Gupta, Ben Jantson, Sara LaLumia, Teresa Selee, Libby Wiebel.
1998 :  Stephen Bochanski, Joe Ferguson, Nathan L. Gibson, Stephen Hartke, Kimball Martin, Ting Fai Ng, John Slanina, Harry Smith.
1997 :  Jeff Clouse, Joshua Hortsman and Jayme Moore, Vincent Lucarelli, Michael Perry, Sheryle Proper.
1996 :  Scott Clark, Stephen Haptonstahl, Kim Jordan, Pi-Yeh Liu, Vincent Lucarelli, Eugene Sy.
1995 :  Aron Atkins, Ashley Carter, Alayne Clare, Scott Clark.
1994 :  Andrew Douglass, Allen Harbaugh, Kathryn Nyman, Daniel L. Viar, Sonny Vu, Jeb F. Willenbring.
1993 :  Vladimir Dimitrijevic, Jennifer Garrett, Lauren D. Hartman, Jon Hester, Joel M. Wisdom.
1992:  Jeffrey John Boats, Francis Fung, Susan Koppenol, Daniel L. Viar.
1991:  Anthony F. DeLia, Heather DeSimone, Mark Dobner, Linda Hughes, Marguerite Nedreberg, Joshua Tempkin, Marc Wallace.
1990:  Anna Fiehler, Francis Fung, Lisa Hansen, Richard Kinkela, Chikako Mese.
1989:  Nicholas Ahn, Robert A. Cullen, Beth-Allyn Eggens, Darrin Frey, M. Chris Haase, Chikako Mese, Michele Pezet, William C. Regli, Stephen J. Smith.

Beal Prize
The Beal Prize was funded by Andrew Beal, a prominent banker who is also a mathematics enthusiast. The prize money--now US$100,000--is being held by the AMS until it is awarded. The interest is used to fund the annual Erdös Memorial Lecture and other activities of the Society.

The Beal conjecture and prize were announced in an article that appeared in the December 1997 issue of The Notices of the American Mathematical Society. The prize will be awarded by an AMS-appointed committee for either a proof or a counterexample of the Beal Conjecture that is published in a refereed journal. See The Beal Conjecture and Prize for more information and links to articles.

One of Andrew Beal's goals is to inspire young people to think about the equation, think about winning the offered prize, and in the process become more interested in the field of mathematics.

Stefan Bergman Prize
The Bergman Prize honors the memory of Stefan Bergman, best known for his research in several complex variables, as well as the Bergman projection and the Bergman kernel function that bear his name. A native of Poland, he taught at Stanford University for many years and died in 1977 at the age of 82. He was an AMS member for 35 years. When his wife died, the terms of her will stipulated that funds should go toward a special prize in her husband's honor.

The AMS was asked by the Wells Fargo Bank of California, the managers of the Bergman Trust, to assemble a committee to select recipients of the prize. In addition the Society assisted Wells Fargo in interpreting the terms of the will to assure sufficient breadth in the mathematical areas in which the prize may be given. Awards are made every year or two in: 1) the theory of the kernel function and its applications in real and complex analysis; or 2) function-theoretic methods in the theory of partial differential equations of elliptic type with attention to Bergman's operator method.

Recipients:
2006 :  Kengo Hirachi
2005 :  Elias M. Stein
2004 :  Joseph J. Kohn
2003:   M. Salah Baouendi and Linda Preiss Rothschild
2001:   László Lempert and Sidney Webster
2000:   Masatake Kuranishi
1999:   John P. D'Angelo
1997:   David E. Barrett and Michael Christ
1995:   Harold P. Boas and Emil J. Straube
1994:  John Erik Fornaess
1993:  Yum-Tong Siu
1992:  Charles Fefferman
1991:  Steven Bell and Ewa Ligocka
1989:  David Catlin

Leonard M. and Eleanor B. Blumenthal Award for the Advancement of Research in Pure Mathematics
The Leonard M. and Eleanor B. Blumenthal Trust for the Advancement of Mathematics was created for the purpose of assisting the Department of Mathematics of the University of Missouri at Columbia, where Leonard Blumenthal served as professor for many years. Its second purpose is to recognize distinguished achievements in the field of mathematics through the Leonard M. and Eleanor B. Blumenthal Award for the Advancement of Research in Pure Mathematics, which was originally funded from the Eleanor B. Blumenthal Trust (dated September 24, 1984) upon Mrs. Blumenthal’s death on July 12, 1987.  The Trust, which is administered by the Financial Management and Trust Services Division of Boone County National Bank in Columbia, Missouri, pays its net income to the recipient of the award each year for four years. The recipient is selected by a committee of five members, each of whom has made notable contributions to mathematics.  The award is presented to the individual deemed to have made the most substantial contribution in research in the field of pure mathematics, and who is deemed to have the potential for future production of distinguished research in such field. To fulfill these criteria, the prize committee has decided to grant the award for the most substantial Ph.D. thesis produced in the four year interval between awards. The award is presented at the International Congress of Mathematicians when feasible, and during each of the following three years the grantee shall be required to present his or her current research to an academy or mathematical society during at least one meeting.  In 1993, the AMS Council "agreed that the Society will invite, on a quadrennial basis, the Committee to Select the Winner of the Blumenthal Prize to award its prize at an Annual Meeting of the Society and will invite the Grantee to deliver an Address to the meeting of the Society."

Recipients:
2005 :  Manjul Bhargava
2001:   Stephen J. Bigelow and Elon B. Lindenstrauss
1997:   Loïc Merel
1993:  Zhilong Xia

Automatic Theorem Proving Prizes
The Fredkin Foundation established three prizes in Automatic Theorem Proving (ATP). In the mid-1980s the Foundation asked the AMS to appoint a formal ATP prize committee and to take over the administration of the awards. Since support for these prizes has been withdrawn, currently there are no plans to make future awards. Below is information on the prizes and past awardees.

1. The Leibniz Prize was to be awarded "for the proof of a 'substantial' theorem in which the computer played a major role." The prize criteria was described as follows: "The quality of the results should not only make the paper a natural candidate for publication in one of the better mathematical journals, but a candidate for one of the established AMS prizes (e.g., Cole, Veblen) or even a Fields Medal. The proofs should not be less sophisticated than those of classical theorems when they first made their appearance--such as, for instance, the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra or one of the fixed point theorems (Brouwer, Leray-Schauder). Though obviously difficult to define precisely, the role of the computer program in the argument should not be mere auxiliary. Novel techniques, meaningful and original definitions, suggestions of interesting intermediate results, perspectives of wider application--any one of these contributions, and others that cannot be foreseen today, would meet the criteria."

2. The Milestone Prize was awarded periodically "for foundational work in ATP." The AMS-appointed ATP prize committee made the following award:

1991:  Woodrow W. Bledsoe

 Previous awardees were J. Alan Robinson (1984, announced at the 1985 Joint Mathematics Meetings prize ceremony) and Hao Wang (1983).

3. The Current Prize was awarded periodically "for ongoing research in ATP that shows promise." The AMS-appointed ATP prize committee made the following award:

1991:  Robert S. Boyer and and J Strother Moore

Previous awardees were Lawrence Wos and Steven Winker (1983).