Undergraduate Essay Prize Winners

Undergraduate Essay Prize Winners

Friday 28 September 2018

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2017-18 Undergraduate Essay Prize is Kamilla Rekvenyi of the University of St Andrews, for her essay, Paul Erdös’ Mathematics as a Social Activity. Kamilla will be awarded her prize at the BSHM Meeting at Gresham College on 24th October, at 4pm.

The two, highly commended, runners up were Tabitha Ogilvie, University of Oxford, for her essay Euler, Legendre, and Gauss: Who knew the law of quadratic reciprocity? and Toby Peres, University of St Andrews, for his essay The Use and Development of Mathematics within Creative Literature