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New College President Wins Major Mathematics Award

Donal O’Shea Co-Winner Of The 2016 Leroy P. Steele Award.

President Donal O’Shea of New College of Florida is a co-winner of the 2016 American Mathematical Society’s Leroy P. Steele Award for Exposition, one of the highest distinctions in mathematics. O’Shea and fellow mathematicians David Cox and John Little received the award for their 1992 book Ideals, Varieties and Algorithms. Its fourth edition was released this year.

“We are deeply honored to have been awarded the Steele prize,” O’Shea said. “Many wonderful books and papers in mathematics have appeared in the last few decades, and those singled out by the Steele prize are among the best. Having our book listed in this company is deeply touching.”

The book helped move computational algebraic and algebraic geometry into the mathematical mainstream, the Society said. “It not only has provided many of today’s mathematicians with their first grounding in algebraic geometry, but also has brought this area of mathematics to the service of scientists and engineers.”

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