# Paul R. Halmos – Lester R. Ford Award

The Paul R. Halmos – Lester R. Ford Award (formerly known as the Lester R. Ford Award) is a $1,000 prize given annually by the Mathematical Association of America for authors of articles of expository excellence published in The American Mathematical Monthly or Mathematics Magazine. It is awarded to at most four authors each year. The prize was established in 1964 as the Lester R. Ford Award to honor the contributions of mathematician and former MAA president Lester R. Ford. In 2012 the award was renamed the Paul R. Halmos – Lester R. Ford Award to honor the contributions of former The American Mathematical Monthly editor Paul R. Halmos and the support of the Halmos family for the awards. Halmos himself received the award in 1971 and 1977.

## Recipients

The recipients of the Paul R. Halmos – Lester R. Ford Award are:
* 2022: William Dunham
* 2022: Jan E. Holly
* 2022: Dominic Klyve and Erik R. Tou
* 2022: David Lowry-Duda and Miles H. Wheeler
* 2021: J. H. Conway, M. S. Paterson, and Moscow (U.S.S.R.)
* 2021: Brian S. Thomson
* 2021: Zhaodong Cai, Matthew Faust, A. J. Hildebrand, Junxian Li, and Yuan Zhang
* 2021: Ben Blum-Smith and Japheth Wood
* 2020: Daniel Ullman and Daniel Velleman
* 2020: Colin Adams, Allison Henrich, Kate Kearney, and Nicholas Scoville
* 2020: John B. Little
* 2020: Balázs Gerencsér and Viktor Harangi
* 2019: Adrian Rice
* 2019: Jonathan Borwein and Robert M. Corless
* 2019: Andrew Granville
* 2019: Kenneth S. Williams
* 2018: Paul E. Becker, Martin Derka, Sheridan Houghten and Jennifer Ulrich
* 2018: Maria Deijfen, Alexander E. Holroyd and James B. Martin
* 2018: Francis E. Su
* 2018: Michael Barnsley and Andrew Vince
* 2017: Deborah Kent and David Muraki
* 2017: Adrien Kassel and David B. Wilson
* 2017: Lawrence Zalcman
* 2017: Harold P. Boas
* 2016: Zhiqin Lu and Julie Rowlett
* 2016: Manya Raman-Sundström
* 2016: Kenneth S. Williams
* 2016: Alex Chin, Gary Gordon, Kellie MacPhee, and Charles Vincent
* 2015: Mario Ponce and Patricio Santibanez
* 2015: Erwan Brugallé and Kristin Shaw
* 2015: Daniel Velleman
* 2015: Allison Henrich and Louis H Kauffman
* 2014: Will Traves
* 2014: Susan H. Marshall and Alexander R. Perlis
* 2014: Jacques Lévy Véhel and Franklin Mendivil
* 2014: Tadashi Tokieda
* 2013: Robert T. Jantzen and Klaus Volpert
* 2013: Lionel Levine and Katherine E. Stange
* 2013: Dimitris Koukoulopoulos and Johann Thiel
* 2013: Dan Kalman and Mark McKinzie
The recipients of the Lester R. Ford Award are:
* 2012: David A. Cox
* 2012: Graham Everest and Tom Ward
* 2012: Peter Sarnak
* 2012: Ravi Vakil
* 2011: Aaron Abrams and Skip Garibaldi
* 2011: Alexander Borisov, Mark Dickinson, and Stuart Hastings
* 2011: James T. Smith
* 2011: Mark Conger and Jason Howald
* 2011: Marvin Jay Greenberg
* 2010: Bob Palais, Richard Palais, and Stephen Rodi
* 2010: Jerzy Kocik and Andrzej Solecki
* 2010: Judith Grabiner
* 2010: Mike Paterson and Uri Zwick
* 2010: Tom M. Apostol and Mamikon A. Mnatsakanian
* 2009: Andrew Bashelor, Amy Ksir, and Will Traves
* 2009: Andrew Granville
* 2009: Dan Kalman
* 2009: Michel Balinski
* 2008: Andrew Cohen and Tanya Leise
* 2008: David Auckly
* 2008: Katherine Socha
* 2008: Thomas C. Hales
* 2008: Tom M. Apostol and Mamikon A. Mnatsakanian
* 2007: Andrew Granville and Greg Martin
* 2007: Harold P. Boas
* 2007: Jeffrey C. Lagarias
* 2007: Lluís Bibiloni, Jaume Paradís, and Pelegrí Viader
* 2007: Michael J. Mossinghoff
* 2006: Edward B. Burger
* 2006: Ibetsam Bajunaid, Joel M. Cohen, Flavia Colonna, and David Singman
* 2006: Karl Dilcher and Kenneth B. Stolarsky
* 2006: Viktor Blåsjö
* 2006: William Dunham
* 2005: Alan Edelman and Gilbert Strang
* 2005: Henry Cohn
* 2005: Judith Grabiner
* 2005: Steven Finch and John Wetzel
* 2005: Tom Apostol and Mamikon Mnatsakanian
* 2004: Charles Livingston
* 2004: Noam Elkies
* 2004: R. Michael Range
* 2004: Ruediger Thiele
* 2003: Eleanor Robson
* 2003: Leonard Gillman
* 2003: Sam Northshield
* 2003: Sergio B. Volchan
* 2003: Warren P. Johnson
* 2002: David Lindsay Roberts
* 2002: Dirk Huylebrouck
* 2002: Greg Martin
* 2002: Peter Borwein & Loki Jorgenson
* 2001: E.R. Scheinerman
* 2001: Keith Kendig
* 2000: P.J. McKenna
* 2000: Vilmos Totik
* 2000: William Terrell
* 1999: Bernd Sturmfels
* 1999: Jerry L. Kazdan
* 1999: Yoav Benyamini
* 1998: Bruce Pourciau
* 1998: Judith V. Grabiner
* 1998: S. C. Coutinho
* 1997: Alan F. Beardon
* 1997: John Brillhart and Patrick Morton
* 1997: Robert G. Bartle
* 1996: John Oprea
* 1996: Martin Aigner
* 1996: Sheldon Axler
* 1995: Fernando Q. Gouvea
* 1995: Israel Kleiner
* 1995: Jonathan L. King
* 1995: N. Movshovitz-Hadar
* 1995: Robert Gray
* 1995: William C. Waterhouse
* 1994: Bruce C. Berndt
* 1994: Dan Velleman
* 1994: Edgar R. Lorch
* 1994: Istvan Szalkai
* 1994: Joseph H. Silverman
* 1994: Leonard Gillman
* 1994: Reuben Hersh
* 1994: S. Bhargava
* 1993: Carsten Thomassen
* 1993: Donald E. Knuth
* 1992: Clement W.H. Lam
* 1991: Edward Scheinerman
* 1991: Frances Yao
* 1991: Joyce Justicz
* 1991: Marcel Y. Berger
* 1991: Peter Winkler
* 1991: Ronald L. Graham
* 1990: Chee K. Yap
* 1990: Doron Zeilberger
* 1990: Jacob Goodman
* 1990: Janos Pach
* 1989: Bruce C. Berndt
* 1989: Gert Almkvist
* 1989: Richard Guy
* 1988: James Epperson
* 1988: Stan Wagon
* 1987: David Yost
* 1987: Howard Hiller
* 1987: Jacob Korevaar
* 1987: Joan Cleary
* 1987: Peter Neumann
* 1987: Sidney Morris
* 1987: Stuart S. Antman
* 1986: Jeffrey Lagarias
* 1986: Michael Taylor
* 1985: Donald G. Saari
* 1985: John B. Urenko
* 1985: John D. Dixon
* 1984: Joel Spencer
* 1984: John W. Milnor
* 1984: Judith Grabiner
* 1984: Roger E. Howe
* 1984: William C. Waterhouse
* 1983: Robert F. Brown
* 1983: Robert S. Strichartz
* 1983: Tony Rothman
* 1982: Philip J. Davis
* 1982: R. Arthur Knoebel
* 1981: Alan H. Schoenfeld
* 1981: Bruce H. Pourciau
* 1981: Edward R. Swart
* 1981: Lawrence A. Zalcman
* 1981: R. Creighton Buck
* 1980: Cathleen S. Morawetz
* 1980: David Gale
* 1980: Desmond P. Fearnley-Sander
* 1980: Karel Hrbacek
* 1980: Robert Osserman
* 1979: Bradley Efron
* 1979: Joseph B. Kruskal
* 1979: Kenneth I. Gross
* 1979: Lawrence A. Shepp
* 1979: Ned Glick
* 1978: Louis H. Kauffman
* 1978: Neil J.A. Sloane
* 1978: Ralph P. Boas
* 1978: Thomas F. Banchoff
* 1977: Daihachiro Sato
* 1977: Donald S. Passman
* 1977: Douglas Wiens
* 1977: Hideo Wada
* 1977: J.H. Ewing
* 1977: James P. Jones
* 1977: Joseph B. Keller
* 1977: Paul R. Halmos
* 1977: S.H. Moolgavkar
* 1977: Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar
* 1977: William H. Gustafson
* 1977: William H. Wheeler
* 1977: William P. Ziemer
* 1976: Branko Grunbaum
* 1976: David W. McLaughlin
* 1976: Edward A. Bender
* 1976: H.P. Young
* 1976: James E. Humphreys
* 1976: Jay R. Goldman
* 1976: Joseph B. Keller
* 1976: Justin J. Price
* 1976: Michel L. Balinski
* 1975: Donald E. Knuth
* 1975: J. Callahan
* 1975: Johannes C.C. Nitsche
* 1975: Lawrence A. Zalcman
* 1975: R. Ayoub
* 1975: Sherman K. Stein
* 1974: Garrett Birkhoff
* 1974: I.J. Schoenberg
* 1974: Lynn Arthur Steen
* 1974: Martin D. Davis
* 1974: Patrick Billingsley
* 1974: R.J. Wilson
* 1973: Jean A. Dieudonne
* 1973: Lynn Arthur Steen
* 1973: Peter D. Lax
* 1973: Raymond L. Wilder
* 1973: Samuel Karlin
* 1973: Thomas L. Saaty
* 1972: Frederick Cunningham, Jr.
* 1972: Gulbank D. Chakerian
* 1972: Leon Henkin
* 1972: Lester H. Lange
* 1972: Paul M. Cohn
* 1972: Victor Klee
* 1972: William J. Ellison
* 1971: Eric Langford
* 1971: George Forsythe
* 1971: Jean A. Dieudonne
* 1971: Olga Taussky
* 1971: Paul R. Halmos
* 1971: Peter V. O'Neil
* 1970: Henry L. Alder
* 1970: Ivan Niven
* 1970: John W. Milnor
* 1970: Norman Levinson
* 1970: Ralph P. Boas
* 1970: William A. Coppel
* 1969: Albert Wilansky
* 1969: George Forsythe
* 1969: Harley Flanders
* 1969: Hassler Whitney
* 1969: Marcel F. Neuts
* 1969: Pierre Samuel
* 1968: Daniel Pedoe
* 1968: Frederick Cunningham, Jr.
* 1968: Hans J. Zassenhaus
* 1968: Keith L. Phillips
* 1968: Margaret Maxfield and F. V. Waugh
* 1968: W.F. Newns
* 1967: D.R. Fulkerson
* 1967: M.Z. Nashed
* 1967: Mark Kac
* 1967: Paul B. Yale
* 1967: Wai-Kai Chen
* 1966: Carl B. Allendoerfer
* 1966: Henryk Minc
* 1966: Marvin Marcus
* 1966: Peter D. Lax
* 1965: Elmer Tolsted
* 1965: Hartley Rogers, Jr.
* 1965: Louis Brand
* 1965: R. Duncan Luce
* 1965: R.H. Bing
* 1965: Robert G. Kuller