David Peter Robbins (12 August 1942 in Brooklyn – 4 September 2003 in Princeton) was an American mathematician.
[2][4] He then taught at MIT, Phillips Exeter Academy, Hamilton College and Washington and Lee University.
[2] In 1980 he moved to Princeton, New Jersey and worked at the Institute for Defense Analyses Center for Communications Research there until his death from pancreatic cancer.
[2] A symposium was held in Robbins' honor in June 2003, the papers from which were published as a special issue of the journal Advances in Applied Mathematics.
The first winner of the prize, in 2008, was Neil Sloane for the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.