Prix Alexis de Tocqueville

The Prix Alexis de Tocqueville is an international Prize for political Literature. It is awarded every two years to a person who has demonstrated outstanding humanistic qualities and attachment to public liberties and seeks to perpetuate Alexis de Tocqueville’s ideals.[1]

It was created in 1979 by Pierre Godefroy, mayor of the nearby town of Valognes and Alain Peyrefitte, a noted author, member of the Académie Francaise and politician.

The jury of this prestigious award is currently chaired by former French President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, and includes Sandra day O’Connor, professor Harvey C Mansfield and a number of other eminent members. The last two American recipients of the Prize were General Colin Powell and Mr. Zbigniew Brzezinski.

The Association organizing the Prize is now headed by the Countess Stéphanie de Tocqueville. The Prize is awarded at the Chateau de Tocqueville.

Recipients
gollark: No. I've vaguely read about recurrence relations and differential equations being related to matrices but don't know much.
gollark: Given that I just made people write 11 excellent matrix multiplication implementations as part of my plan, I wish to use this.
gollark: And how is this to be used for fibonnacious purposes? How does it *work*?
gollark: How do you do fibonacci with matrix multiplication?!?!?!?!
gollark: *My* language makes it impossible to recurse by dynamically inspecting the stack on all function calls (efficiently via something something SIMD/vectorization) and immediately halting if recursion is detected.

References
  1. General Presentation of the Prize
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