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Professor of Mathematics Noam D. Elkies will be awarded the Lester R. Ford Award today by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA), the world’s largest organization dedicated to collegiate mathematics education...
...Lester R. Ford Award—named after a former editor of American Mathematical Monthly and president of the MAA—was created in 1964 to recognize authors of articles in the magazine that demonstrated expository excellence, according to an MAA press release...
...unexpected honor and pleasure to have my first Monthly paper recognized by the Lester R. Ford Award,” Elkies wrote in an acceptance response that will be included in the prize booklet distributed today...
...five Lester R. Ford Awards are given each year. The other winners this year included Ruediger Thiele from the Karl-Sudhoff Institute at the University of Leipzig, R. Michael Range from the State University of New York-Albany, and Charles Livingston from Indiana University...
...Staff writer Amelia E. Lester can be reached at lester@fas.harvard.edu...