1998 Steele Prizes
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The 1998 Leroy P. Steele Prizes were awarded at the 104th Annual Meeting of the AMS in January in Baltimore. These prizes were established in 1970 in honor of George David Birkhoff, William Fogg Osgood, and William Caspar Graustein and are endowed under the terms of a bequest from Leroy P. Steele. The Steele Prizes are awarded in three categories: for expository writing, for a research paper of fundamental and lasting importance, and for cumulative influence extending over a career, including the education of doctoral students. The current award is $4,000 in each category. The recipients of the 1998 Steele Prizes are JOSEPH H. SILVERMAN for Mathematical Exposition, DORON ZEILBERGER and HERBERT S. WILF for a Seminal Contribution to Research, and NATHAN JACOBSON for Lifetime Achievement. The Steele Prizes are awarded by the AMS Council acting through a selection committee whose members at the time of these selections were: Richard A. Askey, Ciprian Foias, H. Blaine Lawson Jr., Andrew J. Majda, Louis Nirenberg, Jonathan M. Rosenberg, and John T. Tate. The text that follows contains for each award the committee’s citation, a brief biographical sketch, and the recipient’s response upon receiving the award.
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