The Joseph L. Doob Prize of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) awards $5,000 (U.S.) every three years for "a single, relatively recent, outstanding research book that makes a seminal contribution to the research literature, reflects the highest standards of research exposition, and promises to have a deep and long-term impact in its area."[1] The prize, endowed in 2005 by Paul and Virginia Halmos, is named in honor of AMS President Joseph L. Doob,[1] who was Paul Halmos's doctoral advisor in the department of mathematics at the University of Illinois. According to Paul Halmos, "Doob was the first well-informed modern mathematician in the department".[2] In order for a mathematical research book to be eligible for the prize, it must have been published within the past 6 calendar years of the year of its nomination.[1] The prize was originally named the AMS Book Prize,[3] but after the first award was renamed the Doob Prize.[4]
Recipients
edit- 2005 —William P. Thurston for Three-dimensional Geometry and Topology (Princeton University Press 1997)
- 2008 — Enrico Bombieri and Walter Gubler for Heights in Diophantine Geometry (Cambridge University Press 2006)
- 2011 — Peter Kronheimer and Tomasz Mrowka for Monopoles and Three Manifolds (Cambridge University Press 2007)
- 2014 — Cédric Villani for Optimal Transport: Old and New (Springer Verlag 2009)
- 2017 — John Friedlander and Henryk Iwaniec for Opera de Cribro (AMS, 2010)
- 2020 — René Carmona and François Delarue for Probabilistic Theory of Mean Field Games with Applications (Springer, 2018)
- 2023 — Bjorn Poonen for "Rational Points on Varieties" (American Mathematical Society, 2017)
References
edit- ^ a b c "Joseph L. Doob Prize". American Mathematical Society.
- ^ Halmos, Paul (2020). I Want to Be a Mathematician. Mathematical Association of America. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-88385-445-7; 1st edition 1985, Springer-Verlag
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) - ^ "William P. Thurston Receives 2005 AMS Book Prize". American Mathematical Society. January 6, 2005.
- ^ "2008 Doob Prize" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 55 (4): 503–504. April 2008.