Euler Book Prize

Winners

• 2007: John Derbyshire, Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics. The main subject of this popular-audience book is the Riemann hypothesis, concerning the location of the zeros of the Riemann zeta function, and its application to the distribution of prime numbers. Due to a miscommunication, Derbyshire missed the award ceremony.
• 2008: Benjamin Yandell, The Honors Class: Hilbert's Problems and Their Solvers. This book intertwines the stories of the solutions to Hilbert's problems with the biographies of its solvers. The award was given posthumously to Yandell, who died in 2004.
• 2009: Siobhan Roberts, King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry. This biography of Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter also describes the history of geometry and Coxeter's contributions to the field.
• 2010: David S. Richeson, Euler’s Gem: The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology. Richeson relates the history of Euler's formula connecting the numbers of vertices, edges, and faces of a convex polyhedron. The story leads from Euler's first observation in 1750 to modern topology and the mathematics of William Thurston and Grigori Perelman.
• 2011: Timothy Gowers, The Princeton Companion to Mathematics. This book provides an overview of modern research mathematics; Gowers edited the contributions of 133 distinguished mathematicians as well as writing many of the entries in it himself.
• 2012: Daina Taimiņa, Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes, A. K. Peters 2009
• 2013: Persi Diaconis, Ronald Graham, Magical Mathematics. The mathematical ideas that animate great magic tricks, Princeton University Press 2011
• 2014: Steven Strogatz, The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012
• 2015: Edward Frenkel, Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality, Basic Books, 2013
• 2016: Jordan Ellenberg, How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, Penguin Press, 2014
• 2017: Ian Stewart, In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World, Basic Books, New York, 2012
• 2018: Matt Parker, Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• 2019: Cathy O'Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction, Crown, 2016
• 2020: Tim Chartier, Math Bytes: Google Bombs, Chocolate-Covered Pi, and Other Cool Bits in Computing, Princeton University Press, 2014