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.
