Earle Raymond Hedrick Lecturers
The Earle Raymond Hedrick Lectures were established in 1952 to procure for the Mathematical Association of America a lecturer of excellent quality:
1952 Tibor Radó, Ohio State University
1953 Paul R Halmos, University of Chicago
1954 Lynn H Loomis, Harvard University
1955 Mark Kac, Rockefeller University
1956 J C Oxtoby, Bryn Mawr College
1957 Leo Zippin, Queens College
1958 Alston S Householder, Oak Ridge National Laboratories
1959 William Feller, Princeton University
1960 Ivan Niven, University of Oregon
1961 R H Bing, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1962 Andrew M Gleason, Harvard University
1963 Hans Rademacher, University of Pennsylvania
1964 Edwin E Floyd, University of Virginia
1965 John W Milnor, Princeton University
1966 Nathan J Fine, University of Pennsylvania
1967 Gian-Carlo Rota, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1968 Hyman Bass, Columbia University
1969 Evrett A Bishop, Univ of California-San Diego
1970 Harry Kesten, Cornell University
1971 Abraham Robinson, Yale University
1972 Peter D Lax, New York University, Courant Institute
1973 Henry O Pollak, Bell Telephone Laboratories
1975 Frederick J Almgren, Jr, Princeton University
1976 Martin D Davis, New York University, Courant Institute
1977 Joseph B Keller, Stanford University
1978 Richard K Guy, University of Calgary
1979 Mary Ellen Rudin, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1980 George E Andrews, Pennsylvania State University
1981 Daniel Gorenstein, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
1982 James W Cannon, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1983 Elias M Stein, Princeton University
1984 Neil J A Sloane, Bell Telephone Laboratories
1985 Arthur M Jaffe, Harvard University
1987 William P Thurston, Princeton University
1988 Don Bernard Zagier, Univ of Maryland-College Park and Max Planck Institut, Bonn
1989 Persi Diaconis, Harvard University
1990 Philip J Davis, Brown University
1991 John Horton Conway, Princeton University
1993 Sir Michael Atiyah, University of Cambridge
1994 Ronald L Graham, AT&T Bell Laboratories
1995 Doris J Schattschneider, Moravian College
1996 Richard A Askey, University of Wisconsin
1997 Elliott H Lieb, Princeton University
1998 Jean Taylor, Rutgers University
1999 Carl Pomerance, University of Georgia
2000 Yakov Sinai, Princeton University
2001 Ingrid Daubechies, Princeton University
2002 László Lovász, Microsoft Research
2003 Henri Rene Darmon, McGill University
2004 Peter Sarnak, Princeton University
2005 Jeffrey Lagarias, University of Michigan
2006 W T Gowers, University of Cambridge Centre for Mathematical Sciences, UK
2007 Jennifer Tour Chayes, Microsoft Corporation
2008 Erik Demaine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2009 Ravi Vakil, Stanford University
2010 Robert L. Devaney, Boston University
2011 Manjul Bhargava, Princeton University
2012 Bernd Sturmfels, University of California-Berkeley
2013 Olga Holtz, University of California-Berkeley and Technische Universität Berlin
2014 Bjorn Poonen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2015 Karen Smith, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
2016 Hendrik Lenstra, Universiteit Leiden
MAA Hedrick lecturers
... who will present a series of at most three lectures accessible to a large fraction of those who teach college mathematics.They were named after Earle Raymond Hedrick: the first President of the Mathematical Association of America.
List of Lecturers
1952 Tibor Radó, Ohio State University
1953 Paul R Halmos, University of Chicago
1954 Lynn H Loomis, Harvard University
1955 Mark Kac, Rockefeller University
1956 J C Oxtoby, Bryn Mawr College
1957 Leo Zippin, Queens College
1958 Alston S Householder, Oak Ridge National Laboratories
1959 William Feller, Princeton University
1960 Ivan Niven, University of Oregon
1961 R H Bing, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1962 Andrew M Gleason, Harvard University
1963 Hans Rademacher, University of Pennsylvania
1964 Edwin E Floyd, University of Virginia
1965 John W Milnor, Princeton University
1966 Nathan J Fine, University of Pennsylvania
1967 Gian-Carlo Rota, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1968 Hyman Bass, Columbia University
1969 Evrett A Bishop, Univ of California-San Diego
1970 Harry Kesten, Cornell University
1971 Abraham Robinson, Yale University
1972 Peter D Lax, New York University, Courant Institute
1973 Henry O Pollak, Bell Telephone Laboratories
1975 Frederick J Almgren, Jr, Princeton University
1976 Martin D Davis, New York University, Courant Institute
1977 Joseph B Keller, Stanford University
1978 Richard K Guy, University of Calgary
1979 Mary Ellen Rudin, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1980 George E Andrews, Pennsylvania State University
1981 Daniel Gorenstein, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
1982 James W Cannon, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1983 Elias M Stein, Princeton University
1984 Neil J A Sloane, Bell Telephone Laboratories
1985 Arthur M Jaffe, Harvard University
1987 William P Thurston, Princeton University
1988 Don Bernard Zagier, Univ of Maryland-College Park and Max Planck Institut, Bonn
1989 Persi Diaconis, Harvard University
1990 Philip J Davis, Brown University
1991 John Horton Conway, Princeton University
1993 Sir Michael Atiyah, University of Cambridge
1994 Ronald L Graham, AT&T Bell Laboratories
1995 Doris J Schattschneider, Moravian College
1996 Richard A Askey, University of Wisconsin
1997 Elliott H Lieb, Princeton University
1998 Jean Taylor, Rutgers University
1999 Carl Pomerance, University of Georgia
2000 Yakov Sinai, Princeton University
2001 Ingrid Daubechies, Princeton University
2002 László Lovász, Microsoft Research
2003 Henri Rene Darmon, McGill University
2004 Peter Sarnak, Princeton University
2005 Jeffrey Lagarias, University of Michigan
2006 W T Gowers, University of Cambridge Centre for Mathematical Sciences, UK
2007 Jennifer Tour Chayes, Microsoft Corporation
2008 Erik Demaine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2009 Ravi Vakil, Stanford University
2010 Robert L. Devaney, Boston University
2011 Manjul Bhargava, Princeton University
2012 Bernd Sturmfels, University of California-Berkeley
2013 Olga Holtz, University of California-Berkeley and Technische Universität Berlin
2014 Bjorn Poonen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2015 Karen Smith, University of Michigan Ann Arbor
2016 Hendrik Lenstra, Universiteit Leiden
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