The Reza Sarhangi Outstanding Paper Prize and Commended Paper Collection
Named in honour of Reza Sarhangi, founder of the Bridges conference/organization and instrumental in founding this journal, this collection is a permanent list of past winners of our Outstanding Paper Prize, as well as Commended Papers. The prizes are added as they are awarded, and commended papers are added at the discretion of the Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board. JMA would like to thank all Prize-winning authors and commended authors for their work!
Cover image: Square Root Phi Series Taken from ‘Marriage of incommensurables’: a geometric conversation between an artist and a mathematician, Figure 5, Square Root Phi Series KPR, 2008, 9.4375 in. × 12 in.; watercolor and ink on rag paper. Authors: Mark A. Reynolds & Stephen R. Wassell.
Reza Sarhangi Outstanding Paper Prize Winners:
• Outstanding Paper Prize 2022: Alexander E. Holroyd – The spinor linkage – a mechanical implementation of the plate trick
• Outstanding Paper Prize 2021: Carolyn Yackel – Wallpaper patterns admissible in itajime shibori
• Outstanding Paper Prize 2020: Veronika Irvine, Therese Biedl & Craig S. Kaplan – Quasiperiodic bobbin lace patterns
• Outstanding Paper Prize 2019: Loe M. G. Feijs – A program for Victory Boogie Woogie
• Outstanding Paper Prize 2017/2018: Doris Schattschneider – Marjorie Rice and the MAA tiling
• Outstanding Paper Prize 2016: Campbell, J M – Visualizing large-order groups with computer-generated Cayley tables
• Outstanding Paper Prize 2015: Veronika Irvine & Frank Ruskey – Developing a mathematical model for bobbin lace
• Outstanding Paper Prize 2014: Robert J. Lang – A Pajarita Puzzle Cube in papiroflexia
Commended Papers:
• Commended Paper 2022: Enric Cosme Llópez, Raúl Ruiz Mora & Núria Tamarit – A comic page for the first isomorphism theorem
• Commended Paper 2020: David Hirsch and Katherine A. Seaton – The polycons: the sphericon (or tetracon) has found its family
• Commended Paper 2019: Crystal Kalinec-Craig, Priya V. Prasad & Carolyn Luna – Geometric transformations and Talavera tiles: a culturally responsive approach to teacher professional development and mathematics teaching
• Commended Paper 2019: Julianna Campbell & Christine von Renesse – Learning to love math through the exploration of maypole patterns
• Commended Paper 2019: E. O. Harriss, C. Smith & A. Carpenter – Geometry in the walnut grove: an applied mathematical approach to art