The Chauvenet Prize is the highest award for mathematical expository writing. It consists of a prize of $1,000 and a certificate, and is awarded yearly by the Mathematical Association of America in recognition of an outstanding expository article on a mathematical topic. Eligibility requires membership in the MAA. The prize is named in honor of William Chauvenet and was established through a gift from J. L. Coolidge in 1925.

Winners to date have been the following: [1]

• 1925 G. A. Bliss
• 1929 T. H. Hildebrandt
• 1932 G. H. Hardy
• 1935 Dunham Jackson
• 1938 G. T. Whyburn
• 1941 Saunders MacLane
• 1944 R. H. Cameron
• 1947 Paul Halmos
• 1950 Mark Kac
• 1953 E. J. McShane
• 1956 R. H. Bruck
• 1960 Cornelius Lanczos
• 1963 Philip J. Davis
• 1964 Leon Henkin
• 1965 Jack K. Hale & Joseph P. LaSalle
• 1967 Guido Weiss
• 1968 Mark Kac
• 1970 Shiing Shen Chern
• 1971 Norman Levinson
• 1972 Jean Francois Treves
• 1973 C. D. Olds
• 1974 Peter D. Lax
• 1975 Martin Davis and Reuben Hersh
• 1976 Lawrence Zalcman
• 1977 W. Gilbert Strang
• 1978 Shreeram S. Abhyankar
• 1979 Neil J. A. Sloane
• 1980 Heinz Bauer
• 1981 Kenneth I. Gross
• 1982 No award given.
• 1983 No award given.
• 1984 R. Arthur Knoebel
• 1985 Carl Pomerance
• 1986 George Miel
• 1987 James H. Wilkinson
• 1988 Steve Smale
• 1989 Jacob Korevaar
• 1990 David Allen Hoffman
• 1991 W. B. Raymond Lickorish and Kenneth C. Millett
• 1992 Steven G. Krantz
• 1993 David H. Bailey
• 1994 Barry Mazur
• 1995 Donald G. Saari
• 1996 Joan Birman
• 1997 Tom Hawkins
• 1998 Alan Edelman and Eric Kostlan
• 1999 Michael I. Rosen
• 2000 Don Zagier
• 2001 Carolyn S. Gordon and David L. Webb
• 2002 Ellen Gethner
• 2003 Thomas C. Hales
• 2004 Edward B. Burger
• 2005 John Stillwell
• 2006 Florian Pfender & Günter M. Ziegler
• 2007 Andrew J. Simoson
• 2008 Andrew Granville

• Chauvenet Prize at MAA Awards
• Chauvenet Prizes at MathDL, including winning articles