Congratulations to the winners of the Lincoln Mathematics Challenge 2021-22 and a big thank you to all participants! A strong competition made the choices difficult for the Competition Committee, with often suble differences in the proofs determining each place winners.

Solutions of the problems can be found here.

The results of the competition are:

1st prize winner:

Ned Bowlas (Harrogate Grammar School).

Joint 2nd prize winners:

Ben Chung (Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge);

Julia Volovich (Chesterton Community College, Cambridge).

Joint 3rd place winners:

Tessa Hayhurst (Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge);

Jiayi Meng (The King’s School, Grantham);

Louis Molenaar (Dereham Sixth Form College, Norfolk).

C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S !

To keep our Mathematics and Physics programmes relevant to the key industries that our graduates will one day end up in, we invite industry speakers to give special lectures on how they use mathematics and physics in their job. Our modules “Industrial and Financial Mathematics” and “Industrial and Econophysics” aim to expose students to some of the many ways in which physics and mathematics is used to solve “real world” problems. The modules are intended to showcase some of the industrial applications of physics and mathematics with a focus on the finance sector towards the end. Invited industry specialists give the lectures for the industrial, introducing mathematical techniques and physics they have not encountered before. Unlike traditional modules where content is delivered and then assessed, the industrial modules focuses on the ability to self teach complex and unfamiliar mathematics and physics. This simulates a more realistic approach to solving a…