Eric Temple Bell Undergraduate Mathematics Research Prize
In 1963 the department of mathematics established this prize honoring the memory of Professor Eric Temple Bell and his illustrious career as a research mathematician, teacher, author, and scholar. It is awarded to one or more juniors or seniors for the best original research paper in mathematics. When submitting a paper, students should specify a faculty member who can attest to the quality of the work. The awards committee may award duplicate prizes in case of more than one outstanding entry.
Abstracts and/or solutions, where available, are linked to the winner's name.
Winners
2026 - Eduardo Rodrigues do Nascimento
2025 - Samuel Goodman, Eric Paul
2024 - Brian Yang
2023 - Miles Cua
2022 - August Chen, Olivine Silier
2021 - Jacob Ressler-Craig, Daniel Rostovtsev, Qiyao Yu
2020 - Sara Fish
2019 - Zachary Chase, Felix Weilacher
2018 - no prize awarded
2017 - William Ballinger & Chloe Hsu & Tynan Ochse, Matthew Weidner
2016 - Tian Nie
2015 - Zhaorong Jin, Jake Marcinek
2014 - Mark Greenfield
2013 - Andy Zucker
2012 - Alexandra Musat
2011 - Jeffrey Lin
2010 - Domenic Denicola
2009 - Jeffrey Kuan, Ila Varma
2008 - Philip Perepelitsky
2007 - David Renshaw, Jed Yang
2006 - Timothy Nguyen
2005 - Patrick Hummel, Timothy Nguyen, Trevor Wilson
2004 - Ameera Chowdhury, Po-Shen Loh
2003 - no prize awarded
2002 - Suhas Nayak
2001 - no prize awarded
2000 - Keshav Dani, Peter Gerdes
1999 - Scott Carnahan, Melvin Boon-Tiong Leok
1998 - no prize awarded
1997 - Marc A. Coram, Mason Alexander Porter
1996 - Winston Yang
1995 - no prize awarded
1994 - Julian Jamison
1993 - no prize awarded
1992 - Michael Maxwell, Robert Southworth
1991 - Allen Knutson
1990 - no prize awarded
1989 - James Coykendall, IV
1988 - Laura Anderson, Eric Babson
1987 - Jonathan Shapiro
1986 - Arthur Duval, Everette Howe
1985 - Charles Nainan
1984 - Bradley Brock, Alan Murray
1983 - Vipul Perival, Mark Purtill
1982 - Forrest Quinn
1981 - Daniel Gordon, Peter Shor, Thiennu H. Vu
1980 - Eugene Y. Loh, John Stembridge, Robert Weaver
1979 - no prize awarded
1978 - no prize awarded
1977 - Thos. G. Kennedy
1976 - John Gustafson, Albert Wells, Jr., Hugh Woodin
1975 - James B. Shearer, Eric Williams
1974 - David S. Dummit
1973 - Bruce Reznick
1972 - Daniel J Rudolph
1971 - no prize awarded
1970 - no prize awarded
1969 - Robert E. Tarjan
1968 - Michael Fredman
1967 - James Maiorana, Allen J. Schwenk
1966 - no prize awarded
1965 - Michael Ashbacher, Richard P. Stanley
1964 - William Zame
1963 - Ed Bender, Jeff Lindsey III