Mathematics Honors Luncheon

The Mathematics Honors Luncheon is held each May at the University of Washington Club to recognize outstanding undergraduate Mathematics and ACMS majors. In addition to their award, each student is given a book reflecting their mathematical interests. Awardees from this year’s luncheon and their books are listed below.

DEPARTMENTAL AWARDS

Outstanding Graduating Bachelor of Science Major
Art Sadovsky – A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar
Jeff Eaton – The Volterra Chronicles by Judith Goodstein
Jill Edwards – Hilbert by Constance Reid

Outstanding Graduating ACMS Major
Kyotaro Hemmi – The Great Pi/E Debate: Which is the Better Number? (DVD)

Outstanding Graduating Bachelor of Arts Major
Ryan Bowler (standard) – Schrödinger: Life and Thought by Walter J. Moore
Megan Wagoner (Teacher Prep) – Sir William Rowan Hamilton by Thomas Hankins

Outstanding Student in Honors Calculus
Eric Nitardy (2nd Year) – Euler, the Master of Us All by William Dunham
Ian Zemke (1st Year) – Counterexamples in Analysis by Bernard Gelbaum & John Olmstead

Gullicksen Award for Outstanding Juniors in Mathematics
Nate Bottman – Experimental Mathematics in Action by David H. Bailey, Jonathan M. Borwein, Neil J. Calkin & Roland Girgensohn
Benjamin Hayes – The Mathematician’s Brain by David Ruelle

UW MEDALS

UW Freshman Medal
Chad Klumb – A Certain Ambiguity: A Mathematical Novel by Gaurav Suri & Hartosh Singh Bal

UW Junior Medal
Ting-You Wang – The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing by Martin Davis