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3 unusual facts about Levi L. Conant


Levi L. Conant

In 2000 the Society established a yearly prize (Levi L. Conant Prize) in his name to honor the best expository paper published in the Bulletin of the AMS or the Notices of the AMS in the past five years.

Conant's work, however, influenced scholars such as Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, and represented the first systematic comparative analysis of numeral systems of North America.

Levi L. Conant Prize

The award is named after Levi L. Conant (1857–1916), a professor at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, known as the author of anthropological mathematics book "The number concept" (1896).


Carl Pomerance

distinguished university teaching award in 1997, and the Levi L. Conant Prize in 2001.

Cluny Abbey

In 1928, the site was excavated and recognized by the American archaeologist Kenneth J. Conant with the backing of the Medieval Academy of America.

Commission on National Goals

The other members of the Commission were Vice Chairman Frank Pace, Erwin D. Canham, James B. Conant, Colgate W. Darden, Jr., Crawford H. Greenewalt, Alfred M. Gruenther, Learned Hand, Clark Kerr, James R. Killian, Jr., William P. Bundy and George Meany.

James F. Conant

Hacker, as well as others like Ian Proops and Michael Forster have in turn criticized Conant's representation of them.

Levi L. Conant Prize

2005: Allen Knutson, Terence Tao for Honeycombs and Sums of Hermitian Matrices. Notices of the AMS, Vol.

2002: Elliott Lieb und Jakob Yngvason for A Guide to Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Notices of the AMS, Vol.

New Wittgenstein

Philosophers often associated with the interpretation include a number of influential philosophers, mostly associated with (although sometimes antagonistic to) the traditions of analytic philosophy, including Stanley Cavell, James F. Conant, John McDowell, Matthew B. Ostrow, Thomas Ricketts, Warren Goldfarb, Hilary Putnam, Stephen Mulhall, Alice Crary, and Cora Diamond.

Ralph W. Conant

His most recent publications are: Toward a More Perfect Union: The Governance of Metropolitan America, with Daniel J. Myers, 1st edition, 2002 (ISBN 0-88316-571-6); 2nd edition, 2006 (ISBN 0883165775) and forthcoming, City of Destiny: Denver in the Making, with Maxine Kurtz, to be published by Chandler & Sharp in 2007.


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