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
Ben Hayes (comprehensive) – Symmetry and the Monster: The Story of One of the Greatest Quests of Mathematics by Mark Ronan
Ming Li (comprehensive) – Isaac Newton by James Gleick
Eric Nitardy (standard) – The Poincare Conjecture: In Search of the Shape of the Universe by Donal O’Shea

Outstanding Graduating ACMS Major
Stephen Barr – Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know? by Philip Tetlock

Outstanding Graduating Bachelor of Arts Major
John Griffin (teacher prep) – Euler’s Gem: The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Toplogy by David Richeson
Alisher Khussainov – A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar

Outstanding Student in Honors Calculus
Will Johnson (2nd year) – Computability and Unsolvability by Martin Davis
Keyun Tong (1st year) – The Best of All Possible Worlds: Mathematics and Destiny by Ivar Ekeland

Gullicksen Award for Outstanding Juniors in Mathematics
Chad Klumb – King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry by Siobhan Roberts
Trevor McCarten – Leonhard Euler by Emil A. Fellmann, E. Gautschi (translator) and W. Gautschi (translator)

RECOGNITION FOR EXTERNAL AWARDS

Outstanding Putnam Team
Nate Bottman – Naming Infinity: A True Story of Religious Mysticism and Mathematical Creativity by Loren Graham
Will Johnson – Computability and Unsolvability by Martin Davis
Igor Tolkov – What is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods by Richard Courant, Herbert Robbins, and Ian Stewarts