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Essay Scholarship

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The Robert Long Essay Scholarships are awarded in the spring each year, for best undergraduate and graduate student essays in the history and/or philosophy of mathematics. These were areas of special interest to Robert Long, who was a member of the mathematics faculty.

The application includes a 15-25 page essay. Selection is determined by the Robert Long Scholarship Committee.

The winner of the 2002 Robert Long Scholarships was

The winner of the 2001 Robert Long Scholarships was

An Honorable mention was awarded to
  • Melissa Flynn
    Pi: Answered and Unanswered Questions

The winners of the 2000 Robert Long Scholarships were

  • Jennifer Buxe
    The Golden Ratio and Penrose's Aperiodic Tilings
  • Elijah Chudnoff
    Tarski, Truth, and Meaning.
Honorable mentions were awarded to
  • Emil Badici
    Sheep's Clothing without Set Theory
  • Alex Hooper
    A Brief History of Voting Theory

There were no winners in the 1999 Robert Long Scholarship Competition.

The winners of the 1998 Robert Long Scholarships were

  • Boris Gorelik (first prize)
    Utility Theory, A Historical Overview
  • Aaron Bramson (second prize)
    Game Theory and Utilitarianism.
  • Christie Ketcham (second prize)
    The Mathematics of Immunology: Marshuk's Simple Mathematical Model of Infectious Disease

The winners of the 1997 Robert Long Scholarships were

  • John Peoples (first prize)
    Mathematical Intuitionism and its Foundations
  • Barry J. Griffiths (second prize)
    The Early History of Continued Fractions and their Use in Solving Diophantine Equations

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