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TRM Essay Competition 2025 – Group XI

The eleventh group of essays from the 2025 TRM Essay Competition, now proudly held in partnership with the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education. The showcase will take place throughout June and July with the winners being announced in August.

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Duelling Dinosaurs and Differential Equations: How Realistic were the battles in ‘Dinosaur King’?Download
Solid Fun – Why There Are Only 5 Platonic SolidsDownload
Specific Impulse and The Starship EnterpriseDownload
Ways to solve and further use the Basel problemDownload
Superpoems – rhyme timeDownload
The Birthday ParadoxDownload
The Conundrum of the Crumbling Tart – An Ultimatum in WonderlandDownload
The Evolution of Calculating 𝜋Download
The birthday paradox – why coincidences aren’t so unlikelyDownload
The Application of Number Theory in CryptographyDownload
Taylor Series – an approximation for the lazy physicistDownload
How to Fold Reality: a guided tour through surfaces that shouldn’t existDownload
The Climb: how mathematics became my lifeline on the edge of the worldDownload
Revisiting Mathematics Teaching: a personal journey towards delightful and purposeful learningDownload
The Bayes Way to PlayDownload
Surviving the Circle: the math of the Josephus ProblemDownload
The Chaos of InfinityDownload
Sand to Brilliance: the mathematics behind microprocessorsDownload
Star Wars – The Impossible ShotDownload
The Black Hole’s Core: a journey into the unknownDownload

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