Ackermann–Teubner Memorial Award

The Alfred Ackermann–Teubner Memorial Award for the Promotion of Mathematical Sciences recognized work in matematical analysis. It was established in 1912 by engineer Alfred Ackermann-Teubner (1857-01-31 – 1940) [cite web |url=http://209.85.171.104/translate_c?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://personen-wiki.slub-dresden.de/index.php/Ackermann,_Gustav_Benedictus_Alfred&prev=/search%3Fq%3DAckermann%25E2%2580%2593Teubner%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26hs%3DjuG%26sa%3DG&usg=ALkJrhg8ZraMIHSqK79ScHVkozKMu37MEQ |title=Ackermann, Gustav Alfred Benedictus |accessdate=2008-09-04 |publisher=personen-wiki.slub-dresden.de] , and was an endowment of the University of Leipzig. [cite book |pages=p. 348 |title=Constantin Carathéodory: Mathematics and Politics in Turbulent Times |last=Georgiadou |first= Maria |year=2004 |publisher=Springer |location=New York |isbn=3540203524 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=IVIXBOFNty8C&pg=RA1-PA348&lpg=RA1-PA348&dq=%22Ackermann%E2%80%93Teubner+Memorial+Award%22&source=web&ots=URZjfy9z1A&sig=YMJiPzp87uUH7CFwiNbmPtR1lJI&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result]

The first award was made in 1914.cite journal |journal=Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society |volume=21 |number=8 |pages=p. 419 |title=Notes |year=May 1915 |publisher=American Mathematical Society |location=Providence, Rhode Island |isbn= |url=http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS/Repository/1.0/Disseminate?view=body&id=pdf_1&handle=euclid.bams/1183423213] Subsequent awards were to be made every other year until a surplus of 60,000 marks was accumulated within the endowment, at which time, the prize was to be awarded annually. The subjects included: [cite journal |pages=p. 157 |title=Notes and News |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date=August–September, 1912 |journal=The American Mathematical Monthly |volume=19 |number=8/9 |publisher=Mathematical Association of America |url=http://www.jstor.org/pss/2972758]
* History, philosophy, teaching
* Mathematics, especially arithmetic and algebra
* Mechanics
* Mathematical physics
* Mathematics, especially analysis
* Astronomy and theory of errors
* Mathematics, especially geometry
* Applied mathematics, especially geodesy and geophysics

Honorees

* 1914: Professor Felix Klein
* 1916: Professor Ernst Zermelo, prize of 1,000 marks [cite journal |journal=Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society |volume=23 |number=7 |pages=p. 336 |title=Notes |date=April 1917 |publisher=American Mathematical Society |location=Providence, Rhode Island |isbn= |url=http://www.projecteuclid.org/DPubS/Repository/1.0/Disseminate?view=body&id=pdf_1&handle=euclid.bams/1183424056]
* 1918: Professor Ludwig Prandtl [cite journal |journal=Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society |volume=25 |number= |pages=p. 477 |title=Notes |date=July 1919 |publisher=American Mathematical Society |location=Providence, Rhode Island |isbn= |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=ixkFAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA477&lpg=PA477&dq=Ackermann-Teubner+prize&source=web&ots=zBuzifJaVX&sig=5NRbdJyn6N7D9qTKjOq74JGn68k&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result]
* 1922: Professor Paul Koebe [cite journal |journal=Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society |volume=29 |number=5 |pages=p. 235 |title=Notes |date=May 1923 |publisher=American Mathematical Society |location=Providence, Rhode Island |isbn= |url=http://www.projecteuclid.org/DPubS/Repository/1.0/Disseminate?view=body&id=pdf_1&handle=euclid.bams/1183485532]
* 1932: Emmy Noether and Emil Artin, co-honorees [cite book |pages=p. 100 |title=Fifty Jewish women who changed the world |last=Felder |first=D.G. |coauthors=Rosen, D. |year=2005 |publisher=Citadel Press |location=New York |isbn=0806526564 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=nUqo-_9mZ7sC&pg=PA100&lpg=PA100&dq=Ackermann-Teubner+Memorial&source=web&ots=klC8ldyDwX&sig=G6Gz2yPbdWFz7h9W18BRxfr9m1Q&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result]
* 1934: Professor Erich Trefftz [cite journal |journal=Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society |volume= |number= |pages=p. 178 |title=Notes |date=May 1935 |publisher=American Mathematical Society |location=Providence, Rhode Island |isbn= |url=http://www.ams.org/bull/1935-41-03/S0002-9904-1935-06071-9/S0002-9904-1935-06071-9.pdf]

Jurists

In 1937, Constantin Carathéodory and Erhard Schmidt were invited to jury the award. [Georgiadou, p. 348] Along with Wilhelm Blaschke, Carathéodory was invited again in 1944 by the German Union of Mathematicians. [Georgiadou, p. 399]

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