Previous years' winners

2024-25:

(11-15 category): Shriyaa Varadpande, Cargilfield School, ‘The Power of Nothing (and other discoveries)’.

(11-15 category) Runner-Up: Ciara Dobson, Chelmsford County High School, 'The life, inventions, and discoveries of Zu Chongzhi’

(16-19 category) Joint first was awarded to the following:

Robert Thackray, Colchester Royal Grammar School, ‘The Unique Mathematics of the Pirahã’.

Huaiyu Wu, Francis Holland School, ‘An Ancient Algorithm from the East: Chinese Remainder Theorem’.

Rosie Tarboton, Wimbledon High School, ‘Ancient Ethiopian Multiplication and Modern Computing’.

(16-19 category) Runner-Ups:

Wing Lam Wong, Wimbledon High School, ‘The Jiuzhang Suanshu and Ancient Chinese Methods to Solving Systems of Linear Equations’.

Issa Sourani, Altrincham Grammar School For Boys, ‘A Mathematical Odyssey: The Kerala School's Legacy’.

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, '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:

(11-15 category): Pippa Wakelin, Kendrick School, 'History and Uses of Infinity'.

(16-19 category): Charles Austin, Norwich School, 'Calculating Risk: Where would we be without the mathematics of risk?'.

2016-17: 

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

(16-19 category): Dougal Houston, Godalming Sixth Form College,'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.