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The 'Chauvenet Prize' is the highest award for mathematical exposition. 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. The author(s) must be members of the organization in order to be eligible for the prize. It 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 M. D. 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

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★ Chauvenet Prize Winners