MAA to honor authors of year's best writing in mathematics | EurekAlert

Awards for the year's best writing on mathematics will be given to Tom Leinster and Cathy O'Neill by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA).

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Awards for the year's best writing on mathematics will be given to Tom Leinster and Cathy O'Neill by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). The award winners will receive their prizes on Jan. 17, 2019 at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, the world's largest gathering of mathematicians, in Baltimore. Leinster will receive the MAA Chauvenet Prize, awarded to the author of an outstanding expository article on a mathematical topic, for "Rethinking Set Theory," in The American Mathematical Monthly. O'Neill will receive the MAA Euler Book Prize, awarded annually to the author of an outstanding book about mathematics, for her book Weapons of Math Destruction.
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