Van Amringe Mathematical Prize

The Department Of Mathematics at Columbia University has presented a "Professor Van Amringe Mathematical Prize" each year (since 1910), based on a very challenging examination. The prize was established in 1910 by George G. Dewitt, Class of 1867. It was named after John Howard Van Amringe, who taught mathematics at Columbia (holding a professorship from 1865 to 1910), was the first Dean of Columbia College, and was the first president of the American Mathematical Society (between 1888 and 1890).

For many years, the prize was awarded to the freshman or sophomore mathematics student at Columbia College deemed most ProFicient in the mathematical subjects designated during the year of the award. More recently (since 2003), the prize has been awarded to three Columbia College students (a freshman, a sophomore, and a junior) who are deemed most proficient in their class in the mathematical subjects designated during the year of the award.

Recipients

Year

Recipients

2012

Yifei Zhao ('15), Sicong Zhang ('14), Sung Chul Park ('13)

2011

Sicong Zhang ('14), Sung Chul Park ('13), Shenjun Xu ('12)

2010

Sung Park ('13), Shenjun Xu ('12), Samuel Beck ('11)

2009

Shenjun Xu ('12), Jiayang Jiang ('11), Atanas Atanasov ('10)

2008

Andra Liana Mihali ('11), Atanas Atanasov ('10), So Eun Park ('09)

2007

Atanas Atanasov ('10), So Eun Park ('09), Dmytro Karabash ('08)

2006

Vedant Misra ('09), Dmytro Karabash ('08) and Mikhail Shklyar ('08), Ilya Vinogradov ('07)

2005

Mikhail Shklyar ('08), Ilya Vinogradov ('07), Florian Sprung ('06)

2003

Mark Xue ('06), Kiril Datchev ('05), Jay Heumann ('05)

2002

Kiril Datchev ('05)

2001

Vladislav Shchogolev ('04) and Eric Patterson ('03)

2000

David Anderson ('02)

1990

Ali Yegulalp ('90)

1988

Ali Yegulalp ('90)

1987

Ali Yegulalp ('90)

1976

Chris Tong ('78)

1967

Louis Halle Rowen ('69)

1922

Melvin David Baller ('24) and Benedict Kurshan ('24)

1921

Wilfred Francis Skeats ('23)

1917

Israel Koral ('20)