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<h2 id="winners">Winners</h2> <ul><li>2007: <a href="/facts/John_Derbyshire/efG5wLFS">John Derbyshire</a>, <i><a href="/facts/Prime_Obsession/yhq6VIbG">Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics</a></i> (Joseph Henry Press, 2003).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> The main subject of this popular-audience book is the <a href="/facts/Riemann_hypothesis/Td8Jq5r0">Riemann hypothesis</a>, concerning the location of the zeros of the <a href="/facts/Riemann_zeta_function/MnfRu7lY">Riemann zeta function</a>, and its application to the distribution of <a href="/facts/Prime_number/L20FLkgn">prime numbers</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> Due to a miscommunication, Derbyshire missed the award ceremony.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a></li> <li>2008: <a href="/facts/Benjamin_Yandell/qQ7vnF6R">Benjamin Yandell</a>, <i>The Honors Class: Hilbert's Problems and Their Solvers</i> (AK Peters, 2002).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> This book intertwines the stories of the solutions to <a href="/facts/Hilbert%27s_problems/HaQWIxvV">Hilbert's problems</a> with the biographies of its solvers. The award was given posthumously to Yandell, who died in 2004.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a></li> <li>2009: <a href="/facts/Siobhan_Roberts/FcGCJ5ed">Siobhan Roberts</a>, <i>King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry</i> (Walker and Company, 2006).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a> This biography of <a href="/facts/Harold_Scott_MacDonald_Coxeter/D2l5jWGG">Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter</a> also describes the history of geometry and Coxeter's contributions to the field.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a></li> <li>2010: <a href="/facts/David_Richeson/LEsj9nSo">David S. Richeson</a>, <i><a href="/facts/Euler%27s_Gem/xrKJAJE9">Euler's Gem: The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology</a></i> (Princeton University Press, 2008).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a> Richeson relates the history of <a href="/facts/Euler_characteristic/JCjzWUr2">Euler's formula</a> <i>V</i> − <i>E</i> + <i>F</i> = 2 connecting the numbers of vertices, edges, and faces of a <a href="/facts/Convex_polyhedron/2pRHcRgC">convex polyhedron</a>. The story leads from Euler's first observation in 1750 to modern <a href="/facts/Topology/2EqW47cU">topology</a> and the mathematics of <a href="/facts/William_Thurston/K1Qe8801">William Thurston</a> and <a href="/facts/Grigori_Perelman/SmISWW7x">Grigori Perelman</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15"><sup>15</sup></a></li> <li>2011: <a href="/facts/Timothy_Gowers/El3xoEmE">Timothy Gowers</a>, <i><a href="/facts/The_Princeton_Companion_to_Mathematics/MzrNYmAz">The Princeton Companion to Mathematics</a></i> (Princeton University Press, 2008). This book provides an overview of modern research mathematics; Gowers edited the contributions of 133 distinguished mathematicians as well as writing many of the entries in it himself.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16"><sup>16</sup></a></li> <li>2012: <a href="/facts/Daina_Taimi%C5%86a/TMWKaeSL">Daina Taimiņa</a>, <i><a href="/facts/Crocheting_Adventures_with_Hyperbolic_Planes/NKNpebCe">Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes</a></i>, A. K. Peters 2009</li> <li>2013: <a href="/facts/Persi_Diaconis/AsI5mBLp">Persi Diaconis</a>, <a href="/facts/Ronald_Graham/ukKzczTL">Ronald Graham</a>, <i>Magical Mathematics: The Mathematical Ideas that Animate Great Magic Tricks</i>, Princeton University Press 2011</li> <li>2014: <a href="/facts/Steven_Strogatz/4WaCyeYL">Steven Strogatz</a>, <i>The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity</i>, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012</li> <li>2015: <a href="/facts/Edward_Frenkel/HDbzeeM5">Edward Frenkel</a>, <i><a href="/facts/Love_and_Math/HDbzeeM5">Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality</a></i>, Basic Books, 2013</li> <li>2016: <a href="/facts/Jordan_Ellenberg/XcLYP94v">Jordan Ellenberg</a>, <i><a href="/facts/How_Not_to_Be_Wrong/rpU2Ktwk">How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking</a></i>, Penguin Press, 2014</li> <li>2017: <a href="/facts/Ian_Stewart_(mathematician)/HxAST88r">Ian Stewart</a>, <i>In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World</i>, Basic Books, New York, 2012<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17"><sup>17</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:18" href="#fn:18"><sup>18</sup></a></li> <li>2018: <a href="/facts/Matt_Parker/Sj4pTjWw">Matt Parker</a>, <i>Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension</i>, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2014)</li> <li>2019: <a href="/facts/Cathy_O%27Neil/cLX1Rbck">Cathy O'Neil</a>, <i><a href="/facts/Weapons_of_Math_Destruction/Wm6yaHSq">Weapons of Math Destruction</a></i>, Crown, 2016<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:19" href="#fn:19"><sup>19</sup></a></li> <li>2020: <a href="/facts/Tim_Chartier/GbnjNrVx">Tim Chartier</a>, <i>Math Bytes: Google Bombs, Chocolate-Covered Pi, and Other Cool Bits in Computing</i>, Princeton University Press, 2014<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:20" href="#fn:20"><sup>20</sup></a></li> <li>2021: <a href="/facts/Francis_Su/mzVk85QX">Francis Su</a> and Christopher Jackson, <i>Mathematics for Human Flourishing</i>, Yale University Press (2020)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:21" href="#fn:21"><sup>21</sup></a></li> <li>2022: <a href="/facts/Allison_Henrich/Fm90rGwS">Allison Henrich</a>, <a href="/facts/Emille_D._Lawrence/mjrtLauQ">Emille D. Lawrence</a>, Matthew Pons, and David Taylor, eds., <i>Living Proof: Stories of Resilience Along the Mathematical Journey</i>, MAA and AMS (2019)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:22" href="#fn:22"><sup>22</sup></a></li> <li>2023: Susan D'Agostino, <i>How to Free Your Inner Mathematician: Notes on Mathematics and Life</i>, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press (2020)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:23" href="#fn:23"><sup>23</sup></a></li> <li>2024: <a href="/facts/Sarah_B._Hart/4tEtRkXG">Sarah B. Hart</a>, <i>Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature</i>. New York: Macmillan, 2023</li></ul> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Beckenbach_Book_Prize/hmcH1oEE">Beckenbach Book Prize</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/List_of_mathematics_awards/yEjzjlyP">List of mathematics awards</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Euler Book Prize. <a href="https://www.maa.org/programs-and-communities/member-communities/maa-awards/writing-awards/euler-book-prize" target="_blank">https://www.maa.org/programs-and-communities/member-communities/maa-awards/writing-awards/euler-book-prize</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Euler Book Prize. <a href="https://www.maa.org/programs-and-communities/member-communities/maa-awards/writing-awards/euler-book-prize" target="_blank">https://www.maa.org/programs-and-communities/member-communities/maa-awards/writing-awards/euler-book-prize</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Siegel, Martha J. (February 2007), "JMM 2007: Report of the MAA Secretary" (PDF), Focus, Mathematical Association of America: 8–10, archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-10-02, retrieved 2011-02-02. <a href="/wiki/Martha_Siegel" target="_blank">/wiki/Martha_Siegel</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Euler Book Prize. <a href="https://www.maa.org/programs-and-communities/member-communities/maa-awards/writing-awards/euler-book-prize" target="_blank">https://www.maa.org/programs-and-communities/member-communities/maa-awards/writing-awards/euler-book-prize</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Siegel, Martha J. (February 2007), "JMM 2007: Report of the MAA Secretary" (PDF), Focus, Mathematical Association of America: 8–10, archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-10-02, retrieved 2011-02-02. <a href="/wiki/Martha_Siegel" target="_blank">/wiki/Martha_Siegel</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Gowers, Timothy (October 9, 2003), "Prime time for mathematics", Nature, 425 (562), doi:10.1038/425562a. <a href="/wiki/Timothy_Gowers" target="_blank">/wiki/Timothy_Gowers</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Euler Prize citation Archived 2007-02-09 at the Wayback Machine, MAA, 2007, retrieved 2011-02-01. <a href="http://www.maa.org/news/AwardsJMM07-Citations.html" target="_blank">http://www.maa.org/news/AwardsJMM07-Citations.html</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Derbyshire, John (January 8, 2007), "Big Easy", National Review. <a href="/wiki/John_Derbyshire" target="_blank">/wiki/John_Derbyshire</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Euler Book Prize. <a href="https://www.maa.org/programs-and-communities/member-communities/maa-awards/writing-awards/euler-book-prize" target="_blank">https://www.maa.org/programs-and-communities/member-communities/maa-awards/writing-awards/euler-book-prize</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>Euler prize citation for Yandell, MAA, 2008, retrieved 2011-02-01. <a href="http://www.maa.org/news/h-MAA-Euler08.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.maa.org/news/h-MAA-Euler08.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>Euler Book Prize. <a href="https://www.maa.org/programs-and-communities/member-communities/maa-awards/writing-awards/euler-book-prize" target="_blank">https://www.maa.org/programs-and-communities/member-communities/maa-awards/writing-awards/euler-book-prize</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:12"><p>Ellenberg, Jordan (September 6, 2006), "Symmetry in Motion", The Washington Post. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/05/AR2006090501286.html" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/05/AR2006090501286.html</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:13"><p>January 2009 Prizes and Award Archived 2012-10-04 at the Wayback Machine, Mathematical Association of America, retrieved 2011-02-01. <a href="http://www.maa.org/awards/jmm09PB.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.maa.org/awards/jmm09PB.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:14"><p>Euler Book Prize. <a href="https://www.maa.org/programs-and-communities/member-communities/maa-awards/writing-awards/euler-book-prize" target="_blank">https://www.maa.org/programs-and-communities/member-communities/maa-awards/writing-awards/euler-book-prize</a> <a href="#fnref:14" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:15"><p>January 2010 Prizes and Awards, American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2011-02-01. <a href="https://www.ams.org/ams/prizebooklet-2010.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.ams.org/ams/prizebooklet-2010.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:15" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:16"><p>January 2011 Prizes and Awards, American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2011-02-01. <a href="https://www.ams.org/profession/prize-booklet-2011.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.ams.org/profession/prize-booklet-2011.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:16" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:17"><p>Prize Booklet 2017, page 10 <a href="https://www.ams.org/profession/prizes-awards/PrizeBooklet-2017.pdf?_ga=1.147771504.675213196.1483718656" target="_blank">https://www.ams.org/profession/prizes-awards/PrizeBooklet-2017.pdf?_ga=1.147771504.675213196.1483718656</a> <a href="#fnref:17" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:18"><p>Laureate 2017 <a href="http://jointmathematicsmeetings.org/meetings/national/jmm2017/2180_prizes-all" target="_blank">http://jointmathematicsmeetings.org/meetings/national/jmm2017/2180_prizes-all</a> <a href="#fnref:18" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:19"><p>JMM Prizebook 2019 <a href="http://jointmathematicsmeetings.org/meetings/national/jmm2019/prizebook_2019_web_final.pdf" target="_blank">http://jointmathematicsmeetings.org/meetings/national/jmm2019/prizebook_2019_web_final.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:19" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:20"><p>Euler Book Prize. <a href="https://www.maa.org/programs-and-communities/member-communities/maa-awards/writing-awards/euler-book-prize" target="_blank">https://www.maa.org/programs-and-communities/member-communities/maa-awards/writing-awards/euler-book-prize</a> <a href="#fnref:20" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:21"><p>JMM Prizebook 2021 <a href="https://www.jointmathematicsmeetings.org/meetings/national/jmm2021/2247_prizes-all" target="_blank">https://www.jointmathematicsmeetings.org/meetings/national/jmm2021/2247_prizes-all</a> <a href="#fnref:21" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:22"><p>Euler Book Prize. <a href="https://www.maa.org/programs-and-communities/member-communities/maa-awards/writing-awards/euler-book-prize" target="_blank">https://www.maa.org/programs-and-communities/member-communities/maa-awards/writing-awards/euler-book-prize</a> <a href="#fnref:22" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:23"><p>Euler Book Prize. <a href="https://www.maa.org/programs-and-communities/member-communities/maa-awards/writing-awards/euler-book-prize" target="_blank">https://www.maa.org/programs-and-communities/member-communities/maa-awards/writing-awards/euler-book-prize</a> <a href="#fnref:23" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>