The seventh 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!

Abigail explores the fractal nature of popular music.

This essay takes a deep dive into the Heston Model – used by traders around the world to model stock prices.

This essay looks at one of the key components of artificial intelligence in the form of the Monte Carlo Tree Search Algorithm.

Filippos uncovers the surprising maths behind the popular game of Dobble.

Jed provides an intuitive way to think of complex numbers.

Leon investigates the many paradoxes related to time-travel.

This essay looks back at the history of cryptography, and forward to potential future developments.

Joshua looks at the logarithm function from a different perspective.

Max tells the story of the infamous Mandelbrot Set.

This essay ponders the very essence of the subject of mathematics.

This essay looks at the role of maths in our helping to improve our understanding of DNA.

This essay provides a succinct overview of the topic of Game Theory.