The fifth group of essays from the 2023 Teddy Rocks Maths Competition. The showcase will take place throughout June and July with the winners being announced at the end.

The competition is organised with St Edmund Hall at the University of Oxford and offers a cash prize plus publication on the university website for the winners. It will be running again in early 2024 so be sure to follow Tom (Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube) to make sure you don’t miss the announcement!

Alejandro discusses evolution int he context of computational complexity.

Georgia explores the many properties of the infamous Euler’s constant e.

Sunny takes an in-depth look at how the maths behind GPS.

Feroz explains the maths that allows us to look inside the human body without the need for surgery.

Richie formulates some of the most important results in Chemistry using mathematical language.

Warren provides a handy toolkit for how to solve any polynomial up to degree 4, and explains why the approach doesn’t work for degree 5.

This essay provides a well-explained proof of Minkowski’s Theorem.

Owen puts numbers under the microscope from a philosophical viewpoint.

Jack explains why the work of Pythagoras underpins the modern world.

Amelia investigates the shape of the universe through the lens of mathematics.

This essay explores the prevalence of the Fibonacci numbers in society and nature.

This essay takes a deep-dive into the maths that enabled humans to fly.