Previous years' winners

2022-23:

(11-15 category) Inez Sheikh, Putney High School, ‘How to become an Olympic Swimmer’. 

(16-19 category) Erin McGurk, Altrincham Grammar School For Girls, 'Three Lions, Two Russian Mathematicians, One Game: Optimising Football Strategy'.

2021–2022: 

(11–15 category) Isi Holdom, City of London School for Girls, 'Wordle: The Numbers Game'.

(16–19 category) Daria Gal, Notting Hill and Ealing High School, 'The Fourier Series: the lens to see the mysteries of the world'. 

2020–2021:

(11–15 category) Daria Gal, Notting Hill and Ealing High School, 'Mathematics and the mysterious world of creating gold'

(16–19 category) Carys Williams, Monmouth School for Girls, 'A story of secrecy and security: the key to unlocking prime numbers'

2019-2020: 

(11-15 category): Reyan Saeed, Chigwill School Essex, 'Genius of the East, The Discovery and Application of Trigonometry'

2019-2020:

(16-19 category): Beatrice Bannister, The Henrietta Barnett School, London, 'Godel’s Proof'

No further prizes were awarded this year. 

2018-19:

Madi Scott, Greenhead College Huddersfield, 'A Proof of Euclid of Alexandria’s importance and influence within the field of Mathematics'. 

No further prizes were awarded this year. 

2017-18:

Pippa Wakelin, Kendrick School in Reading who won in the 11-15 category for her paper on the History and Uses of Infinity and Charles Austin, from Norwich School in Norwich, who won in the 16-19 category for his paper on Calculating Risk: Where would we be without the mathematics of risk?

2016-17: 

(11-15 category): Nicholas Munro, Sackville School, Kent, 'A brief exploration of mathematical modelling'

(16-19 category): Dougal Houston, Godalming Sixth Form College, Surrey,'The pioneers of mathematics and where we would be without them'

2015-16:

Chiara Falls, from Guildford UK, 'Discovering Links Between Maths and Architecture'. Chiara was presented with her prize at the BSHM meeting at Birkbeck, University of London on 21 May 2016.