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	Leroy P. Steele Prizes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Leroy P. Steele Prizes are awarded every year by the American Mathematical Society, for distinguished research work and writing in the field of mathematics.
		The prizes have been given since 1970, from a bequest of Leroy P. Steele, and were set up in honor of George David Birkhoff, William Fogg Osgood and William Caspar Graustein.
		The Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leroy_P._Steele_Prizes (257 words)

	UC Berkeley Mathematics
		The Leroy P. Steele Prizes were established in 1970 in honor of George David Birkhoff, William Fogg Osgood, and William Caspar Graustein and are endowed under the terms of a bequest from Leroy P. Steele.
		The prize is awarded every three years for an outstanding research article to have appeared in one of the AMS primary research journals during the six calendar years ending a full year before the meeting at which the prize is awarded.
		This prize was established in 1967 in honor of Professor Norbert Wiener and was endowed by a fund from the Department of Mathematics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
	math.berkeley.edu /index.php?module=announce&ANN_user_op=view&ANN_id=3 (387 words)

	Department of Mathematics at MIT \| What's New
		Professor Richard Stanley received the 2003 Rolf Schock Prize in Mathematics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences "for his fundamental contributions to combinatorics and its relationship to algebra and geometry, in particular for his important contributions to the theory of convex polytopes and his innovative work on enumerative combinatorics."
		In years when awards are made, the prize winners are chosen at plenary sessions of the academies in the spring, and the prizes are awarded at a joint ceremony in the autumn.
		Victor Guillemin was awarded the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement at the 109th Annual Meeting of the AMS in Baltimore in January 2003.
	www-math.mit.edu /news/whats-new.html (577 words)

	Richard P. Stanley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Among Stanley's many distinctions are membership in the National Academy of Sciences (elected in 1995), the 2001 Leroy P. Steele Prize for mathematical exposition, and the 2003 Schock Prize.
		Stanley, Richard P. Combinatorics and Commutative Algebra, 2nd ed.
		Stanley, Richard P. Enumerative Combinatorics, Volumes 1 and 2.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_P._Stanley (269 words)

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		Among the prizes he won are the John Von Neumann Prize in 1986, the Prize of Japan in 1991, the Harvey Prize from Technion in 1991, the Daedalon Gold Medal for Science and Technology from Greece in 1991, and W T et Idalia Reid Prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 1998.
		The Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize is awarded to Sun-Yung Alice Chang for her deep contributions to the study of partial differential equations on Riemannian manifolds and in particular for her work on extremal problems in spectral geometry and the compactness of isospectral metrics within a fixed conformal class on a compact 3-manifold.
		She was awarded the S V Kovalevsky prize in 1992, an honorary doctorate from the University of Bonn on 13 May 2002, and the Golden Lomonosov Medal, the Ioffe Medal, and the St Petersburg University Medal in 2003.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Search/historysearch.cgi?SUGGESTION=prize*&CONTEXT=1 (15844 words)

	AMS Prize - Leroy P. Steele Prizes
		These prizes were established in 1970 in honor of George David Birkhoff, William Fogg Osgood, and William Caspar Graustein, and are endowed under the terms of a bequest from Leroy P. Steele.
		From 1970 to 1976 one or more prizes were awarded each year for outstanding published mathematical research; most favorable consideration was given to papers distinguished for their exposition and covering broad areas of mathematics.
		That cycle would have the 2008 prize awarded in discrete mathematics (discrete mathematics alternates with logic every five years), then analysis in 2009, algebra in 2010, applied mathematics in 2011, geometry/topology in 2012 and then logic in 2013, renewing the cycle.
	www.ams.org /prizes/steele-prize.html (3668 words)

	Department of Mathematics Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Council of American Mathematical Society awarded the 1998 Leroy P. Steele Prize for a Seminal Contribution to Research to Herbert S. Wilf and Doron Zeilberger for their paper Rational functions certify combinatorial identities, Journal of American Mathematical Society 3 (1990), 147-158.
		The Leroy P. Steele Prizes were established in 1970 in honor of George David Birkhoff, William Fogg Osgood, and William Caspar Graustein, and are endowed under the terms of a bequest amounting to $145,000 from Leroy P. Steele.
		The Steele Prize for a Seminal Contribution to Research is awarded for a paper, whether recent or not, that has proved to be of fundamental or lasting importance in its field or a model of important research.
	www.math.temple.edu /prize (350 words)

	Newsroom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Three Steele Prizes are awarded annually, generally to mathematicians working in the U.S., in recognition of achievement in three distinct areas: Lifetime Achievement, Mathematical Exposition, and Seminal Contribution to Research, for which Professor Langlands was honored.
		His previous honors include the American Mathematical Society’s Cole Prize in 1982, the Common Wealth Award in 1984, the first National Academy of Sciences Award in Mathematics in 1988, the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 1996 (jointly with Andrew Wiles), and the Grande Médaille d’Or (Gold Medal) of the Paris Academy of Sciences in 2000.
		Past recipients of the Steele Prize include current Institute faculty members Phillip A. Griffiths (in 1971) and Robert MacPherson (in 2002, jointly with Institute Member Mark Goresky), former faculty members Armand Borel, John W. Milnor, André Weil, and Hassler Whitney, as well as numerous Institute Members.
	www.ias.edu /Newsroom/announcements/Uploads/view.php?cmd=view&id=263 (328 words)

	Stony Brook University's Dennis Sullivan Receives 2006 AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize
		Presented annually by the American Mathematical Society, the Steele Prize is one of the highest distinctions in mathematics.
		The prize was awarded at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Antonio, Texas.
		Among his many honors are the AMS Veblen Prize (1971), the Prix Elie Cartan of the French Academy of Sciences (1981), the King Faisal Prize (1994), and the U.S. National Medal of Science (2004).
	commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu /artman/publish/article_990.shtml (323 words)

	Harry Kesten honored by math society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Awarded by the American Mathematical Society, the prize is one of the highest distinctions in mathematics.
		The prize citation notes that Kesten is honored for "his many and deep contributions to probability theory and its applications." Kesten is the Goldwin Smith Professor of Mathematics at Cornell.
		The American Mathematical Society established the Steele Prizes in 1970, following a bequest of $145,000 from Leroy P. Steele.
	www.news.cornell.edu /http://www.n/Chronicle/01/1.25.01/Kesten.html (196 words)

	Promotions and Awards
		Ordway Professor Nicolai Krylov was awarded the 2004 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research.
		The prize was awarded at the Joint Mathematics Meetings held in January in Phoenix, Arizona.
		The Prize Citation states in part: "The Steele Prize for Seminal Research is awarded...for the "Evans-Krylov theorem"....
	www.math.umn.edu /newsletter04/promotions_awards.html (470 words)

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		Several large prizes were offered for a solution to the problem of determining longitude and Galileo tried the persuade the Spanish Court in 1616 that he could determine absolute time using Jupiter's moons and, after failing to convince them, tried to persuade Holland of his method when they offered a large prize in 1636.
		Jeno (Eugene) P Wigner was born in Budapest in 1902, and received the Nobel Prize in Physics as a professor at Princeton University in 1963 for understanding the role of symmetries in quantum mechanics, for the discovery of parity, and for applying quantum mechanics to atomic nuclei.
		In 1831, the first prize of French dissertation from the College Charlemagne was awarded to him, and better yet, first prize in Latin dissertation, acquired in an open contest, attested with splendour to the universality of Wantzel's aptitude.
	www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk /Search/historysearch.cgi?SUGGESTION=prize...&CONTEXT=1 (8744 words)

	Einstein Institute of Mathematics, The Hebrew University - About the Institute: Prizes
		The Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in economics and the Frederic Esser Nemmers Prize in mathematics
		The Abel Prize: Norway established a prize in Mathematics, following the model of the Nobel prizes.
		The prize is named for Niels Henrik Abel, to mark the occasion of the 200th anniversary of his birth.
	www.ma.huji.ac.il /info/prize.html (605 words)

	Awards
		The Steele Prize is a prestiguous award given by the American Mathematical Society.
		This prize is awarded every 4 years to a young number theorist (as defined as having received their doctorate less than 12 years ago) who is Canadian or has connections with Canadian mathematics.
		Alexander Holroyd is the co-winner with Itai Benjamini of the Weizmann Institute Rehovot of the 2004 Rollo Davidson Prize.
	www.math.ubc.ca /Dept/Awards/index.shtml?print (1250 words)

	Town Topics
		Princeton Township resident, Robert P. Langlands, the Hermann Weyl Professor of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study, has been awarded the $150,000 Frederic Esser Nemmers Prize in Mathematics.
		He shared the 1995-96 Wolf Prize in Mathematics with Princeton University professor Andrew Wiles (famous for his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem), and, last year, the American Mathematical Society awarded him the 2005 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research.
		A second award, the Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics, was given to Lars Peter Hansen of the University of Chicago.
	www.towntopics.com /mar2206/other5.html (519 words)

	Gromov, Rubinstein receive 2003-04 Nemmers Prizes, Observer Online (04-08-2004), Northwestern University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Nemmers Prizes are awarded to scholars who display outstanding achievement in their discipline as demonstrated by major contributions to new knowledge or the development of significant new modes of analysis.
		Gromov is the recipient of numerous distinguished awards, including the Kyoto Prize (2002), the Balzan Prize (1999), the Leroy P. Steele Prize (1997), the Lobatchewski Medal (1997), the Wolf Prize (1993), the Prix UAP (1989), Elie Cartan Prize (1984), Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry (1981), and the Moscow Mathematical Society Prize (1971).
		The Nemmers Prizes are made possible through bequests from the late Erwin E. Nemmers, a former member of the North-western faculty, and his brother, the late Frederic E. Nemmers, both of Milwaukee.
	www.northwestern.edu /observer/issues/2004-04-08/nemmers.html (755 words)

	NYU Today
		The Steele Prize is one of the highest distinctions in mathematics.
		Morawetz was honored for her contributions to partial differential equations, transonic flow, and other areas of applied mathematics, as well as the guidance and inspiration she provided to colleagues and students alike.
		The Steele Prize was established in 1970 to honor distinguished mathematical research.
	www.nyu.edu /nyutoday/archives/17/09/Stories/Morawetz.html (292 words)

	Awards & Honors: 1/02 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The institute awarded the degree in recognition of Drell's pioneering work in high-energy particle physics and on theories of radiation and relativistic quantum fields, his outstanding career as an educator and the profound influence he has had on shaping American policies on defense.
		At an October 2002 APS meeting, the prize will be presented to Harris "for outstanding contributions to fundamental and applied research into laser sources, nonlinear optics, extreme ultraviolet laser sources and laser physics, including electromagnetically induced transparency and its application to lasing without inversion and to nonlinear optics at maximal coherence."
		Yitzhak Katznelson, professor of mathematics, was awarded the 2002 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition on Jan. 7.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/news/report/news/2002/january9/people-19.html (273 words)

	University of South Alabama Press Release
		The first lecture, “Solitons and the Inverse Scattering Method: A Historical View,” which includes the work that was awarded the prestigious Leroy P. Steele Prize, is scheduled from 3:30-4:30 p.m.
		A professor of mathematical sciences and biomedical engineering at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Miura also has the distinction of being a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Royal Society of Canada, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
		He was awarded the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research, 2006, with C.S. Gardner, J.M. Greene and M.D. Kruskal, for their fundamental work on solitons, inverse scattering transforms, and nonlinear completely integrable systems.
	www.southalabama.edu /publicrelations/pressreleases/2006pr/041306a.html (320 words)

	The Department of Computational & Applied Mathematics at Rice University
		Rich was nominated for his innovative and creative approaches to numerical software with a solid understanding of mathematics and computer science, for his software contributions for the solution of eigensystems of equations, and for his impact on scientists both at Sandia National Laboratories and in the broader professional community.
		The Felix Klein Prize, presented by the European Mathematical Society (EMS), recognizes exemplary achievement in bringing the power of modern mathematics to bear on contemporary industrial problems.
		The prize was presented in July 2000 at the Third European Congress of Mathematics.
	www.caam.rice.edu /alumni_archive.html (427 words)

	Herbert Wilf wins AMS Steele Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		On Thursday, January 8, 1998, the American Mathematical Society announced that Professor Herb Wilf, of Penn's Mathematics Department, was awarded a Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research.
		He shared the award with Doron Zeilberger of Temple University for their joint work on "Rational functions certify combinatorial identities", a paper that appeared in the Journal of the AMS in 1990.
		The work for which the prize was awarded involves a new method of finding computer- assisted proofs of formulas that arise in many areas of mathematics and physics.
	www.math.upenn.edu /History/recog/steele-wilf.html (405 words)

	Jews in Mathematics
		The designation of these five awards as being the most prestigious, and their rough order of importance, is based on information contained in the entry "Mathematical Prizes" on p.
		The Fields Medal, known informally as the "Nobel Prize in Mathematics," is awarded only to individuals who are forty years of age or younger.
		The Abel and Schock Prizes, recently established by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, respectively, are very likely destined to become leading international awards in mathematics.
	www.jinfo.org /Mathematics.html (356 words)

	Faculty among new academy members (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		A member of the Chicago faculty since 1987, he is spending the 1996-97 academic year in Sweden as the Erlander Professor at the Mittag-Leffler Institute near Stockholm.
		He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, and in 1996 he was awarded the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition by the American Mathematical Society.
		The National Academy of Sciences is a private organization of scientists and engineers dedicated to furthering science and its use for the general welfare.
	chronicle.uchicago.edu /970515/academy.shtml (425 words)

	Steele prize to Dr.Kadison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		On Thursday, January 14, 1999, the American Mathematical Society announced that Professor Richard Kadison, of Penn's Mathematics Department, was awarded the 1999 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement.
		According to the citation for the award, "For almost half a century, Kadison has been one of the world leaders in the field of operator algebras, and the present flourishing of this field is largely due to his efforts.
		He has held Fulbright, Sloan and Guggenheim fellowships, and was awarded honorary degrees from the University of Copenhagen and the Universite d'Aix-Marseille.
	www.math.upenn.edu /History/recog/kadison.html (237 words)

	NYU Today News: Courant's Greengard awarded Steele Prize for research
		Leslie F. Greengard, a professor of mathematics at NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, has been awarded the 2001 Leroy P. Steele Prize in recognition of his seminal contribution to research.
		The announcement was made at the beginning of the year by the American Mathematical Society, which administers the Steele Prizes.
		Much of his work has been in the development of "analysis-based" fast algorithms such as the FMM for gravitation and electromagnetics and the Fast Gauss Transform for diffusion.
	www.nyu.edu /nyutoday/archives/15/04/greengard.nyu (258 words)

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