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First Year Mathematician wins Summer Essay Competition

Alvaro de-Andres is one of 4 Mathematics undergraduate winners of the summer essay competition 2009.  This inter-collegiate competition is open to all first year Mathematicians and carries a prize of £100.  Alvaro won his prize for an essay on `Chaos Theory and Its Applications', which was described as:

'beautifully presented and of a very high standard.  The Mathematics was well laid out and followed well.  The diagrams were excellent and helped describe the material.  The referencing was excellent.'

Alvaro's essay included material, not covered in the first year Oxford syllabus, coloured phase portraits and time series of chaotic attractors, and numerical algorithms for their generation.  A very worthy achievement and winner.

Irene Moroz (Senior Maths Fellow, St Hilda's)