Dean’s Award for Best Book Publications of 2024

May 14, 2025

The award was given to four titles, accompanied by a financial prize from the Dean’s fund. Two of the awarded books were published in English.

According to the official rules, the awards are given to publications that reach an exceptional level of quality and whose authors or co-authors (with the exception of the popular science editions from the MatfyzPress publishing house) are members of the faculty. International students are welcome to draw inspiration for their studies from these awarded books:

Category: University Textbook
Lectures on Quantum Field Theory
Author: J. Hořejší (MatfyzPress, 2024)

Category: Monograph
Error Norm Estimation in the Conjugate Gradient Algorithm
Authors: G. Meurant, P. Tichý (SIAM Spotlights series, 2024)

The remaining two awarded books were published in Czech and are as follows:

Category: Publication in the MatfyzPress Academic Series
Základy matematické analýzy pro studenty fyziky 4
Authors: R. Černý, M. Pokorný (MatfyzPress, 2024)

Category: Publication in the MatfyzPress Popular Science Series
Krátké přivítání ve vesmíru – Kapesní průvodce
Authors: N. de Grasse Tyson, M. A. Strauss, R. J. Gott (MatfyzPress, Prague 2024)
The award was granted for the Czech translation by Martin Žofka.

Congratulations!



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