distinguished university teaching award in 1997, and the Levi L. Conant Prize in 2001.
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.
2005: Allen Knutson, Terence Tao for Honeycombs and Sums of Hermitian Matrices. Notices of the AMS, Vol.
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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).
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2002: Elliott Lieb und Jakob Yngvason for A Guide to Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Notices of the AMS, Vol.
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Conant's work, however, influenced scholars such as Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, and represented the first systematic comparative analysis of numeral systems of North America.