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Chauvenet Prize: 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s

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The Chauvenet Prize, consisting of a prize of $1,000 and a certificate, is awarded at the Annual January Meeting of the Association to the author of an outstanding expository article on a mathematical topic. First awarded in 1925, the Prize is named for William Chauvenet, a professor of mathematics at the United States Naval Academy. It was established through a gift in 1925 from J.L. Coolidge, then MAA President. Winners of the Chauvenet Prize are among the most distinguished of mathematical expositors.

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Newman's Short Proof of the Prime Number Theorem
D. Zagier

Originally published in The American Mathematical Monthly, Volume: 104, Number: 8 (01 Oct 1997)

Published online: 10 Apr 2018
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A Stroll Through the Gaussian Primes
Ellen Gethner, Stan Wagon & Brian Wick

Originally published in The American Mathematical Monthly, Volume: 105, Number: 4 (01 Apr 1998)

Published online: 23 Apr 2018
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Diophantine Olympics and World Champions: Polynomials and Primes Down Under
Edward B. Burger

Originally published in The American Mathematical Monthly, Volume: 107, Number: 9 (01 Nov 2000)

Published online: 23 Apr 2018
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The Gravity of Hades
Andrew J. Simoson

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 75, Number: 5 (01 Dec 2002)

Published online: 16 Apr 2018
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Reflections on the Arbelos
Harold P. Boas

Originally published in The American Mathematical Monthly, Volume: 113, Number: 3 (01 Mar 2006)

Published online: 31 Jan 2018
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The Mathematics of Doodling
Ravi Vakil

Originally published in The American Mathematical Monthly, Volume: 118, Number: 2 (01 Feb 2011)

Published online: 13 Dec 2017
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Feedback, Control, and the Distribution of Prime Numbers
Susan H. Marshall & Donald R. Smith

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 86, Number: 3 (01 Jun 2013)

Published online: 22 Dec 2017
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The Surprising Predictability of Long Runs
Mark F. Schilling

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 85, Number: 2 (01 Apr 2012)

Published online: 22 Dec 2017
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Rethinking Set Theory
Tom Leinster

Originally published in The American Mathematical Monthly, Volume: 121, Number: 5 (01 May 2014)

Published online: 13 Dec 2017
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Buses, Bullies, and Bijections
Vladimir Pozdnyakov & J. Michael Steele

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 89, Number: 3 (01 Jun 2016)

Published online: 22 Dec 2017
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The Sine of a Single Degree
Travis Kowalski

Originally published in The College Mathematics Journal, Volume: 47, Number: 5 (01 Nov 2016)

Published online: 27 Nov 2017
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Five Families Around a Well: A New Look at an Old Problem
Ezra Brown & Matthew Crawford

Originally published in The College Mathematics Journal, Volume: 49, Number: 3 (27 May 2018)

Published online: 13 Apr 2018
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The Early (and Peculiar) History of the Möbius Function
William Dunham

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 91, Number: 2 (15 Mar 2018)

Published online: 20 Mar 2018
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The Chicken Braess Paradox
Kimmo Eriksson & Jonas Eliasson

Originally published in Mathematics Magazine, Volume: 92, Number: 3 (27 May 2019)

Published online: 10 Jun 2019
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