Yueh-Gin Gung and Dr. Charles Y. Hu Award to Hyman Bass for Distinguished Service to Mathematics.

The article reports that the Yueh-Gin Gung and Dr. Charles Y. Hu Award for Distinguished Service to Mathematics for 2006 has been given to Hyman Bass of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor for his having served on numerous boards and committees in the area of mathematics. His career started in Princeton and was inspired by Irving Kaplansky's lectures on homological methods in commutative algebra when he went to Graduate School at the University of Chicago in Illinois. He has been to 16 universities in 10 countries and he has published 86 papers in mathematics. One of his concerns is to develop an agenda on how mathematics can be taught and learned at the school level.