Awards & Recognition
Princeton University Press books have won numerous awards, including six Pulitzer Prizes, five Bancroft Prizes, three National Book Awards, and hundreds of major awards from academic organizations. Dozens of Press authors have been awarded the most prestigious academic prizes in the world, including the Nobel Prize in economics, physics, chemistry, medicine, and literature, the Fields Medal, and the Holberg Prize. To inquire about our awards program, including for nomination calls and author requests, please contact Steve_Stillman@press.princeton.edu.
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A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Finalist for the PROSE Award in Mathematics, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the PROSE Award in Popular Science and Mathematics, Association of American Publishers
Avi Wigderson, Co-Winner of the Abel Prize, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Winner of a SABR Baseball Research Award, Society for American Baseball ResearchFinalist for the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year, Spitball Magazine
Winner of the PROSE Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences and Mathematics, Association of American PublishersWinner of the PROSE Award in Mathematics, Association of American Publishers
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Honorable Mention for the 2003 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Mathematics and Statistics, Association of American Publishers
One of Forbes.com’s 10 Best Astronomy, Physics and Mathematics Books of 2017, chosen by GrrlScientist
One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018
One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015
Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award in Mathematics, Association of American PublishersOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for the Year
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015
Honorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in Popular Science & Popular Mathematics, Association of American Publishers
Professional, Scholarly Cover/Jacket Award, New York Book Show
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013Shortlisted for the 2013 BSHM Neumann Book Prize, British Society for the History of Mathematics
American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Books for General Audiences and Young AdultsOne of American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Books for General Audiences and Young Adults 2014
Elias M. Stein, Winner of the 2005 Stefan Bergman Prize, American Mathematical SocietyElias M. Stein, Winner of the 1998 Wolf Prize for Mathematics, the Wolf Foundation
Winner of the 1996 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Mathematics, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the 1997 Leroy P. Steele Prize, American Mathematics Society
Winner of the 2006 Book Award, Mathematics/Computer Science category, Alpha Sigma Nu, and the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities
John Milnor, Winner of the 2011 Abel Prize from the Norwegian Academy of Science and LettersJohn Willard Milnor, Winner of the 2011 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement, American Mathematical Society
Winner of the 1999 Bocher Memorial Prize, American Mathematical Association
Joseph Warren Dauben, Winner of the 2012 Albert Leon Whiteman Memorial Prize, American Mathematical Society
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1999Honorable Mention for the 1998 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Mathematics, Association of American Publishers
John Milnor, Winner of the 2011 Abel Prize from the Norwegian Academy of Science and LettersJohn Willard Milnor, Winner of the 2011 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement, American Mathematical Society
John Milnor, Winner of the 2011 Abel Prize from the Norwegian Academy of Science and LettersJohn Willard Milnor, Winner of the 2011 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement, American Mathematical Society
John Milnor, Winner of the 2011 Abel Prize from the Norwegian Academy of Science and LettersJohn Willard Milnor, Winner of the 2011 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement, American Mathematical Society
John Milnor, Winner of the 2011 Abel Prize from the Norwegian Academy of Science and LettersJohn Willard Milnor, Winner of the 2011 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement, American Mathematical Society
John Milnor, Winner of the 2011 Abel Prize from the Norwegian Academy of Science and LettersJohn Willard Milnor, Winner of the 2011 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement, American Mathematical Society
Curtis T. McMullen, Winner of the 1998 Fields Medal, International Congress of Mathematicians
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016
One of American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Books for General Audiences and Young Adults 2014
Winner of the 2013 Euler Book Prize, Mathematical Association of AmericaHonorable Mention for the 2012 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Popular Science & Popular Mathematics, Association of American Publishers
Honorable Mention for the 1994 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Mathematics, Association of American Publishers
Shortlisted for the 2016 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, in Digital E-Books
Winner of the 2016 PROSE Award in Mathematics, Association of American PublishersOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015
Winner of the 2005 Book Prize, American Mathematical SocietyWinner of the 1997 for the Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Mathematics, Association of American Publishers
Curtis T. McMullen, Winner of the 1998 Fields Medal, International Congress of Mathematicians
Wassim Haddad, Winner of the 2014 Pendray Aerospace Literature Award, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015
One of American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Books for General Audiences and Young Adults 2014
Winner of the Euler Book Prize, Mathematical Association of AmericaOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2005
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1999
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013
One of Amazon.com science editors' Top 10 list for Science, Best for 2009One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2009
Winner of the 2012 PROSE Award in Architecture & Urban Planning, Association of American PublishersOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013
Winner of the 2010 Euler Book Prize, Mathematical Association of AmericaOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2009
Honorable Mention for the 2006 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Computer & Information Science, Association of American Publishers
Wassim Haddad, Winner of the 2014 Pendray Aerospace Literature Award, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2004
Winner of the Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition, American Mathematical Society
John Adam, Winner of the 2007 recipient of the Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award, State Council of Higher Education for VirginiaWinner of the 2003 for Professional/Scholarly Award in Mathematics and Statistics, Association of American Publishers
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2004
Winner of the 2012 Book Merit Award in the Professional, Reference category, New York Book Show
Winner of the 2007 Lanchester Prize, Informs
Wassim Haddad, Winner of the 2014 Pendray Aerospace Literature Award, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Ivor Grattan-Guinness, Recipient of the Kenneth O. May Medal and Prize for contributions to the History of Mathematics, awarded by the International Commission for the History of Mathematics
John Milnor, Winner of the 2011 Abel Prize from the Norwegian Academy of Science and LettersJohn Willard Milnor, Winner of the 2011 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement, American Mathematical Society
Honorable Mention for the 2007 Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Mathematics, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the Shoenfield Prize, Association for Symbolic Logic
Winner of the 2011 Euler Book Prize, Mathematical Association of AmericaOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2009
Honorable Mention for the 2008 PROSE Award for Single Volume Reference/Science, Association of American Publishers
Winner of the 2007 Best Sci-Tech Books in Mathematics, Library JournalOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2007
Elias M. Stein, Winner of the 2005 Stefan Bergman Prize, American Mathematical Society
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2010Honorable Mention for the 2010 PROSE Award in Mathematics, Association of American Publishers
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2010
Wassim Haddad, Winner of the 2014 Pendray Aerospace Literature Award, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Elias M. Stein, Winner of the 2005 Stefan Bergman Prize, American Mathematical Society
Winner of the 2011 Pfizer Award for Best Scholarly Book, History of Science SocietyOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2009
Honourable Mention in the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Prize in Middle Eastern Studies 2009, British Society for Middle Eastern Studies
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2009
Winner of the 2008 PROSE Award in Mathematics, Association of American Publishers
Joseph Warren Dauben, Winner of the 2012 Albert Leon Whiteman Memorial Prize, American Mathematical Society
Honorable Mention for the 2005 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Mathematics and Statistics, Association of American Publishers
Ivor Grattan-Guinness, Recipient of the Kenneth O. May Medal and Prize for contributions to the History of Mathematics, awarded by the International Commission for the History of Mathematics 2009
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1997
John Milnor, Winner of the 2011 Abel Prize from the Norwegian Academy of Science and LettersJohn Willard Milnor, Winner of the 2011 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement, American Mathematical Society