Le prix George Pólya est un prix mathématique créé en 1976 et décerné depuis 1977 par la Mathematical Association of America (MAA) pour des articles de qualité publiés dans The College Mathematics Journal édité par la MAA. Le prix, nommé d'après le mathématicien George Pólya, récompense jusqu'à deux lauréats par an avec un prix d'un montant de . La plupart des articles lauréats sont accessibles à tous

Lauréats + Liste des lauréatsMathematical Association of America Année Lauréat(s) Article1977 Anneli Cahn Lax Linear Algebra, A Potent Tool, Vol. 7 (1976), 3–151977 Julian Weissglass Small Groups: An Alternative to the Lecture Method, Vol. 7 (1976), 15–201978 Allen H. Holmes, Walter Sanders, John W. LeDuc Statistical Inference for the General Education Student – It Can Be Done, Vol. 8 (1977), 223–2301978 Surface Area and the Cylinder Area ParadoxVol. 8 (1977), 207–2111979 Richard L. Francis A Note on Angle Construction, Vol. 9 (1978), 75–801979 Richard Plagge Fraction without Quotients: Arithmetic of Repeating Decimals, Vol. 9 (1978), 11–151980 Robert Nelson Pictures, Probability, and Paradox, Vol. 10 (1979), 182–1901980 Hugh F. Ouellette and Gordon Bennett The Discovery of a Generalization: An Example in Problem Solving,Vol. 10 (1979), 100–1061981 Gulbank D. Chakerian Circles and Spheres, Vol. 11 (1980), 26–411981 Robert G. Dean, Ennis D. McCune, William D. Clark Calculators to Motivate Infinite Composition of Functions, Vol. 11 (1980), 189–1951982 John A. Mitchem On the History and Solution of the Four-Color Map Problem, Vol. 12 (1981), 108–1161982 Peter L. Renz Mathematical Proof: What It Is and What It Ought to Be, Vol. 12 (1981), 83–1031983 Paul R. Halmos The Thrills of Abstraction, Vol. 13 (1982), 243–2511983 Douglas R. Hofstadter Analogies and Metaphors to Explain Gó's Theorem, Vol. 13 (1982), 98–1141983 Warren Page, V.N. Murty Nearness Relations Among Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion, Part 1, Vol. 13 (1982), 315–3271984 , Probabilistic Dependence Between Events, Vol. 14 (1983), 240–2471984 Richard J. Trudeau How Big is a Point?, Vol. 14 (1983), 295–3001985 Anthony Barcellos The Fractal Geometry of Mandelbrot, Vol. 15 (1984), 98–1141985 Kay Dundas To Build a Better Box, Vol. 15 (1984), 30–361986 Philip J. Davis What Do I Know? A Study of Mathematical Self-Awareness, Vol. 16 (1985), 22–411987 Irl C. Bivens What a Tangent Line Is When It Isn't a Limit, Vol. 17 (1986), 133–1431987 Constance Reid The Autobiography of Julia Robinson, Vol. 17 (1986), 2–211988 Dennis M. Luciano, Gordon D. Pritchett Cryptology: From Caesar Ciphers to Public-Key Cryptosystems, Vol. 18 (1987), 2–171988 Isaac Newton: Man, Myth, and Mathematics, Vol. 18, (1987), 362–3891989 Beverly L. Brechner, John C. Mayer Antoine's Necklace – or How to Keep a Necklace from Falling Apart, Vol. 19 (1988), 306–3201989 Edward Rozema Why Should We Pivot in Gaussian Elimination?, Vol. 19 (1988), 63–721990 Israel Kleiner Evolution of the Function Concept: A Brief Survey, Vol. 20 (1989), 282–3001990 D. Neidinger Automatic Differentiation & APL, Vol. 20 (1989), 238–2511991 William B. Gearhart, Harris S. Shultz The Function Sin x/x, Vol. 21 (1990), 90–991991 Mark F. Schilling The Longest Run of Heads, Vol. 21 (1990), 196–2071992 William Dunham Euler and the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra, Vol. 22 (1991), 282–2931992 Two Surprising Theorems on Cavalieri Congruence, Vol. 22 (1991), 118–1241993 L. H. Lange, J. W. Miller A Random Ladder Game: Permutations, Eigenvalues, and Convergence of Markov Chains,Vol. 23 (1992), 373–3851993 D. N. MacKenzie Triquetras and Porisms, Vol. 23 (1992), 118–1311994 Inverse Problems and Torricelli's Law, Vol. 24 (1993), 210–2171994 Dan Kalman Six Ways to Sum a Series, Vol. 24 (1993), 402–4211995 Anthony P. Ferzola Euler and Differentials, Vol. 25 (1994), 102–1111995 Paulo Ribenboim Prime Number Records, Vol. 25 (1994), 280–2901996 John H. Ewing Can We See the Mandelbrot Set?, Vol. 26 (1995), 90–991996 James G. Simmonds A New Look at an Old Function, e, Vol. 26 (1995), 6–101997 Chris Christensen et Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar Newton's Method for Ressolving Affected Equations, Vol. 27 (1996), 330–3401997 Leon Harkleroad How Mathematicians Know What Computers Can't Do, Vol. 27 (1996), 37–421998 Kevin G. Kirby Of Memories, Neurons, and Rank-One Corrections, Vol. 28 (1997), 2–191998 Aimee Johnson, Kathleen Madden. Putting the Pieces Together: Understanding Robinson's Nonperiodic Tilings, Vol. 28 (1998), 172–1811999 Aaron Klebanoff, John H. Rickert Studying the Cantor Dust at the Edge of the Feigenbaum Diagrams, Taco, Vol. 29 (1998), 189–1981999 , Lawrence J. Wallen The World's Biggest Taco, Vol. 29 (1998), 2–172000 Ezra Brown Square roots from 1;24,51,10 to Dan Shanks, Vol. 30 (1999), 82-952000 Martin Gardner The asymmetric propeller, Vol. 30 (1999), 18–222001 Ezra Brown Three Fermat Trails to Elliptic Curves, Vol. 31, No. 3, (2000), 162–1722001 Chip Ross, Jody M. Sorensen Will the Real Bifurcation Diagram Please Stand Up!, Vol. 31, No.1, (2000), 2–142002 Timothy G. Feeman Conformality, the Exponential Function, and World Map Projections. Vol, 32, November 2001, 334–3422003 David L. Finn Can a Bicycle Create a Unicycle Track?, Vol. 33 (2002), 283-2922003 Dan Kalman An Undetermined Linear System for GPS, Vol. 33 (2002), 384–3902004 Greg N. Frederickson A New Wrinkle on an Old Folding Problem, September, 2003, Vol. 34(4) pp. 258–2632005 Brian Hopkins, Robin Wilson The Truth About Königsberg, , page 1982005 Stephen M. Walk Mind Your ∃s and ∀s, , page 3622006 Ezra Brown Phoebe Floats!, , 114–1222006 James Sandefur A Geometric Series from Tennis, , 224–2262007 Richard Jerrard, Joel Schneider, Ralph Smallberg, John Wetzel Straw in a Box, Vol. 37, March 2006, 93–1022007 Allen Schwenk Distortion of Average Class Size: The Lake Wobegon Effect, Vol. September 2006, 293–2962008 Roland Minton, Timothy J. Pennings Do Dogs Know Bifurcations?, Vol. 38, no. 5, November 2007, 356–3612008 Andrew J. Simoson Pursuit Curves for the Man in the Moone, Vol. 38, no. 5, November 2007, 330–3382009 Lawrence Brenton Remainder Wheels and Group Theory, Vol. 39, no. 2, March 2008, 129–1352009 Greg N. Frederickson Designing a Table Both Swinging and Stable, Vol. 39, no. 4, September 2008, 258–2662010 Evolutionary Stability in the Traveler's Dilemma, Vol. 40:1 (2009), 33–382010 Curtis Feist, Ramin Naimi Topology Explains Why Automobile Sunshades Fold Oddly, Vol. 40:2 (2009), 93–982011 Jonathan K. Hodge, Emily Marshall, Geoff Patterson Gerrymandering and Convexity, Vol. 41:4 (2010), 312–3242011 John Martin The Helen of Geometry, Vol. 41:1 (2010), 17–27. 2012 T.S. Michael Guards, Galleries, Fortresses, and the Octoplex, Vol. 42:3 (2011), 191–200. 2012 Leslie A. Cheteyan, Stewart Hengeveld, Michael A. Jones Chutes and Ladders for the Impatient, Vol. 42:1 (2011), 2–8. 2013 Jacob Siehler The Finite Lamplighter Groups: A Guided Tour, Vol. 43:3, (2012), 203-211. 2013 , Marc LeBrun, Neil Sloane Carryless Arithmetic Mod 10, Vol. 43:1,(2012), 43-50. 2014 Adam E. Parker Who Solved the Bernoulli Differential Equation and How Did They Do It?, Vol. 44:2, (2013), 89-97. 2014 Christiane Rousseau How Inge Lehmann Discovered the Inner Core of the Earth, Vol. 44:5, (2013), 399-408 2015 Michael Brilleslyper et Lisbeth Schaubroeck Locating Unimodular Roots David Joyner The Man Who Found God's Number 2016 Gordon Hamilton, , et Henri Picciotto Square-Sum Pair PartitionsHassan Boualem et Robert Brouzet To Be (a Circle) or Not To Be? 2017 Viktor Blåsjö How to Find the Logarithm of Any Number Using Nothing But a Piece of StringTravis Kowalski The Sine of a Single Degree 2018 Ben Blum-Smith, Samuel Coskey Fundamental Theorem on Symmetric Polynomials: History’s First Whiff of Galois Theory vol 48:1 (2017), 18–29 Stephen Kaczkowski Mathematical Models for Global Mean Sea Level Rise vol 48:3 (2017), 162–1692019Stanley R. Huddy, Michael A. JonesThe Calculus Behind Generic Drug Equivalence vol 49:1 (2018), 2–9Peter McGrathNewton’s Shell Theorem via Archimedes’ Hat Box and Single Variable Calculus vol 49:2 (2018), 109–113 2020 Adam Glesser, Matt Rathbun, Isabel M. Serrano, Eclectic Illuminism: Applications of Affine Geometry , vol 50:2 (2019), 82–92 Christopher J. Catone Bringing Calculus into Discrete Math via the Discrete Derivative, vol 50:1 (2019), 21–27 2021 Holly Middleton-Spencer et James Christian On the Nth Roots of -1 and Complex Basin Boundaries: Fractals from Newton-Raphson , vol 51:2 (2020), 95–104. DOI:10.1080/07468342.2020.1703452 Adam Hammett Euler's Limit and Stirling's Estimate , vol 51:5, 330–336. DOI:10.1080/07468342.2020.1811058

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