Merten M. Hasse Prize
In 1986 an anonymous donor gave the Mathematical Association of America funds sufficient to support a prize honoring inspiring and dedicated teachers. The prize is to be named after Merten M. Hasse, who was a former teacher of the donor, and who exemplified these qualities of a fine teacher. The prize is designed to be an encouragement to younger mathematicians to take up the challenge of exposition and communication.
The Merten M. Hasse Prize is for a noteworthy expository paper appearing in an Association publication, at least one of whose authors is a younger mathematician, generally under the age of forty. The prize is to be $1,000, together with a certificate, and is to be awarded at Summer Meetings of the Mathematical Association of America in odd-numbered years. The award is to be made for material published during the four calendar years beginning January 1 five years prior to the time of the award. The prize may be given for a paper which has already been recognized by an Allendoerfer, Ford, or Pólya Award.
MAA members may recommend articles to be considered for the Merten Hasse Prize by completing the brief survey here.
List of Recipients
2023
Matt Davis, Adam E. Parker, and Daniel A. N. Vargas
Being Rational About Algebraic Numbers,
The College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 52, no. 5, pp. 327–337.
doi.org/10.1080/07468342.2021.1967651
2021
Zvi Rosen, Jessica Sidman, and Louis Theran
Algebraic Matroids in Action
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 127, no. 3, pp. 199–216.
DOI: 10.1080/00029890.2020.1689781
2019
David Treeby
Further Thoughts on a Paradoxical Tower
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 125, no. 1, January 2018, pp. 44–60.
2017
Lasse Rempe-Gillen and Zhaiming Shen
The Exponential Map Is Chaotic: An Invitation to Transcendental Dynamics
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 122, no. 10, December 2015, pp. 919-940
2015
Charles Doran and Ursula Whitcher
From Polygons to String Theory
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 85, no. 5, December 2012, pp. 343-360
2013
Henryk Gerlach and Heiko von der Mosel
On Sphere-Filling Ropes
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 118, no. 10, December 2011, pp. 863-876
2011
Alissa S. Crans, Thomas M. Fiore, and Ramon Satyendra
Musical Actions of Dihedral Groups
The American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 116, no. 6, June 2009, pp. 479-495.
2009
Andrew Bashelor, Amy Ksir, and Will Traves
Enumerative Algebraic Geometry of Conics
The American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 115, no. 8, October 2008, pp. 701-728.
2007
Franklin Mendivil
Fractals, Graphs, and Fields
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 110, (2003), pp. 503-515.
2005
Maureen T. Carroll and Steven T. Dougherty
Tic-Tac-Toe on a Finite Plane
Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 77, No. 4, (2004), pp.260-274.
2003
Manjul Bhargava
The Factorial Function and Generalizations
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 107, (2000), pp.783-799.
2001
Francis Edward Su,
Rental Harmony: Sperner’s Lemma in Fair Division
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 106, (1999), pp. 930-942.
1999
Aleksandar Jurisic
The Mercedes Knot Problem
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 103, (1996), pp. 756-770.
1997
Jonathan King
Three Problems in Search of a Measure
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 101, (1994), pp. 609-628.
1995
Andrew J. Granville
Zaphod Beeblebrox’s Brain and the Fifty-ninth Row of Pascal’s Triangle
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol 99, (1992), 318-331.
1993
David H. Bailey, Jonathan M. Borwein and Peter B. Borwein
Ramanujan, Modular Equations, and Approximations to Pi, or, How to Compute One Billion Digits of Pi
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 96, (1989), pp. 201-219.
1991
Barry Cipra
An Introduction to the Ising Model
The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 94, (1987), pp. 937-959.
1989
Irl C. Bivens
What a Tangent Line Is When It Isn’t a Limit
The College Mathematics Journal Vol. 17, (1986), pp. 133-143.
1987
Anthony Barcellos
The Fractal Geometry of Mandelbrot
The College Mathematics Journal, Vol. 15, (1984), pp. 98-114.