Trevor Evans Awards
The Trevor Evans Award, established by the Board of Governors in 1992 and first awarded in 1996, is presented to an author or authors of an exceptional article that is accessible to undergraduates and published during the preceding year in Math Horizons. The Award is named for Trevor Evans, a distinguished mathematician, teacher and writer at Emory University. The award is $1,000.
Approved by the Board by mail ballot, fall, 1992
Amended at JMM, San Diego, January 8, 2013
Past Recipients
2023
Lara Pudwell
The Hidden and Surprising Structure of Ordered Lists, Math Horizons, 29:3 (February 2022) 5–7.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10724117.2021.2002646
2022
Seth Colbert-Pollack, Judy Holdener, Emily Rachfal, and Yanqi Xu
A DIY Project: Construct Your Own Multiply Perfect Number! Math Horizons, 28:3 (February 2021) 20–23.
doi.org/10.1080/10724117.2020.1849911
2021
Cornelia A. Van Cott
The Integer Hokey Pokey,
Math Horizons, 28:2, 24-27.
DOI: 10.1080/10724117.2020.1809284
2020
Sanaz Aliari Kardehdeh, Bruce Golden, and Eric Oden
Experimental Graph Theory
Math Horizons, 27:2, 10-13.
2019
Stan Wagon
Resolving the Fuel Economy Singularity
Math Horizons, 26:1, 5-9.
2018
James Propp
The Paintball Party
Math Horizons, Volume 25, Number 2, November 2017, Pages 18-21.
2017
Cornelia A. Van Cott
A Pi Day of the Century Every Year
Math Horizons, Vol. 23, no. 3, February 2016, pp. 24-27
2016
Joshua Bowman
The Way the Billiard Ball Bounces
Math Horizons, February 2015
2015
Heidi Hulsizer
A ‘Mod’ern Mathematical Adventure in Call of Duty Black Ops
Math Horizons, February 2014, pp. 12-15.
2014
Jordan Ellenberg
The Beauty of Bounded Gaps: A huge discovery about prime numbers and what it means for the future of mathematics
Math Horizons, September 2013, pp. 5-7.
2013
Margaret Symington
Euclid Makes the Cut
Math Horizons, February 2012, pp. 6-9
2012
Nathan Carter and Dan Kalman
Harvey Plotter and the Circle of Irrationality
Math Horizons, November 2011, pp.10-13
2011
Lawrence Brenton
The Adventures of π-Man: Measuring the Universe
Math Horizons, April 2010, pp.12-15
2010
Pamela Pierce, John Ramsay, Hannah Roberts, Nancy Tinoza, Jeffrey Willert, and Wenyuan Wu
The Circle-Square Problem Decomposed
Math Horizons, November 2009, pp. 19-21,31
2009
Richard A. Guyer
Radiology Paging a Good Mathematician: Why Math Can Contribute More to Medicine Than You Might Think
Math Horizons, April 2008, pp. 5-9
Randy K. Schwartz
The Birth of the Meter
Math Horizons, September 2008, pp. 14-17, 31
2008
William Dunham
Euler’s Amicable Numbers
Math Horizons, November 2007, pp. 5–7
Robert K. Moniot
The Taxman Game
Math Horizons, vol. 14, February 2007, pp. 18-20
2007
Adrian Rice and Eve Torrence
Lewis Carroll’s Condensation Method for Evaluating Determinants
Math Horizons, November 2006, pp. 12-15
Robert Bosch
Opt Art
Math Horizons, February 2006, pp. 6-9
2006
Ronald Barnes and Linda Becerra
The Evolution of Mathematical Certainty
Math Horizons, September 2005, pp. 13-17
Stuart Boersma
A Mathematician’s Look at Foucault’s Pendulum
Math Horizons, February 2005, pp. 19-21, 32
2005
Robert L. Devaney
Chaos Rules!
Math Horizons, November 2004, pp. 11-14
2004
Douglas Dunham
A Tale Both Shocking and Hyperbolic
Math Horizons, April 2003, pp. 22-26
Hugh McCague
A Mathematical Look at a Medieval Cathedral
Math Horizons, April 2003, pp. 11-15, 31
2003
Laura Taalman and Eugenie Hunsicker
Simplicity is not Simple
Math Horizons, September 2002, pp. 5-9
Philip D. Straffin, Jr.
The Instability of Democratic Decisions
Math Horizons, April 2002, pp. 12-14, 28
2002
James Tanton
A Dozen Questions about the Powers of Two
Math Horizons, September 2001, pp 5-10
Frank A. Farris
The Edge of the Universe
Math Horizons, September 2001, pp. 16-23
2001
Ira Rosenholtz
One Point Determines a Line – A Geometric Axiom of Choice
Math Horizons, November 2000, pp. 20-24
James Tanton
A Dozen Areal Maneuvers
Math Horizons, September 2000, pp. 26-30, 34
2000
Stan Wagon
The Ultimate Flat Tire
Math Horizons, February 1999, pp.14-17
Peter Schumer
The Magician of Budapest
Math Horizons, April 1999, pp. 5-9
1999
Ravi Vakil
The Youngest Tenured Professor in Harvard History
Math Horizons, September 1998, pp. 8-12
1998
Tom M. Apostol
What Is the Most Surprising Result in Mathematics?
Math Horizons, February 1997, pp. 26-31
Martin Gardner
The Square Root of Two = 1.41421 35623 73095 …
Math Horizons, April 1997, pp. 5-8
1997
William Dunham
1996–A Triple Anniversary
Math Horizons, September 1996, pp. 8-13
Dan Kalman
A Perfectly Odd Encounter in a Reno Cafe
Math Horizons, April 1996, pp. 5-7
1996
Joel Chan
As Easy as Pi
Math Horizons, Winter 1993, pp. 18-19
Underwood Dudley
Why History?
Math Horizons, November 1994, pp. 10-11
Joseph Gallian
Weird Dice
Math Horizons, February 1995, pp. 30-31
Alan Tucker
The Parallel Climbers Puzzle
Math Horizons, November 1995, pp. 22-24