Winners of the Chauvenet Prize

Named after William Chauvenet (1820-1870), a professor of mathematics in the United States Navy, this prize is awarded for a "noteworthy paper published in English, such as will come within the range of profitable reading for a member of the Mathematical Association of America." The first twenty-four prize-winning papers (Bliss (1924)-Zalcman (1974)) are collected in the two volume Chauvenet Papers [1] (which, usefully, are indexed).

1925

Gilbert Ames Bliss, Algebraic functions and their divisors, Ann. Math., 26, 1924, pp. 95-124.

1929

T.H. Hildebrandt, The Borel theorem and its generalizations, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., 32, 1926, pp. 423-474.

1932

G.H. Hardy, An introduction to the theory of numbers. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., 35, 1929. pp. 778-818.

1935

Dunham Jackson, Series of orthogonal polynomials, Ann. Math., 2 (34), 1933. pp. 527-545: Orthogonal trigonometric sums, Ann. Math., 2 (34), 1933, pp. 799-814; The convergence of Fourier series, Amer. Math. Monthly, 1934.

1938

G. T. Whyburn, On the structure of continua, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., 42, 1936, pp. 49-73.

1941

Saunders MacLane, Modular fields, Amer. Math. Monthly, 47 (5), 1940, pp. 259-274; Some recent advances in algebra, Amer. Math. Monthly, 46 (1),1939, pp. 3-19.

1944

Robert H. Cameron, Some introductory exercises in the manipulation...