The Mathematical Association of America is thrilled to announce that Annalisa Crannell, Marc Frantz, and Fumiko Futamura have been awarded the 2026 Daniel Solow Author's Award.
Daniel Solow Author's Award
Established to recognize excellence in undergraduate mathematics education, this annual award honors the author(s) of outstanding teaching materials, ranging from textbooks and lecture notes to software, web-based content, and video lectures. Selection is based primarily on the impact these materials have on undergraduate education in mathematics and related disciplines such as statistics, computer science, operations research, and applied mathematics.
About This Year's Recipients
Crannell, Frantz, and Futamura are recognized for Perspective and Projective Geometry, an innovative textbook published by Princeton University Press that bridges the worlds of mathematics and art. Structured as an interactive workbook, the book uses perspective drawing as a gateway to understanding projective geometry, guiding students from hands-on observation to rigorous proof-writing. Its impact has been both exceptional and sustained, with instructors reporting that it transformed their teaching and former students describing how it changed the way they see the world around them.
Supporting the textbook is a comprehensive instructor's manual drawing on more than a decade of pedagogical experience, and the materials have reached hundreds of educators through MAA minicourses held since 2013. The MAA proudly celebrates this exceptional contribution to undergraduate mathematics education.
Group Response: “We are indebted to the MAA for providing a community of mathematicians that, in the first place, allowed us to meet one another, and beyond that, to host workshops where we could explore this work with even more mathematicians.”
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