Winners of the 2021 Hang Lung Mathematics Awards
The winners of the 2021 Hang Lung Mathematics Awards have been announced. Congratulations to the winners and a big thank you to all students, teachers, and schools for your participation and support in this year’s competition.
Gold Award
Topic | On Non-Torsion Solutions of Homogeneous Linear Systems over Rings |
Team Member | Tsz Hin Chan |
Teacher | Mr. Ho Fung Lee |
School | Pui Ching Middle School |
Silver Award
Topic | The Johnson-Leader-Russell Question on Square Posets |
Team Member | On Ki Luo |
Teacher | Mr. Ho Fung Lee |
School | Pui Ching Middle School |
Bronze Award
Topic | Solvability of the General Pell’s Equation, Quadratic Residuosity, and Real Quadratic Fields of Class Number Two |
Team Member | Wai Lok Lai |
Teacher | Mr. Pak Leong Cheung |
School | St. Paul’s Co-educational College |
Honorable Mentions
(listed by school name in alphabetical order)
Topic | An Investigation on the Rings of Integer-Valued Polynomials on Gaussian Integers and Integer-Valued Continuous Functions |
Team Member | Myron Lam |
Teacher | Mr. Long Tin Chan |
School | Diocesan Boys’ School |
Topic | On the Basel Problem: Generalizations to Other Power Series |
Team Member | Tsz Fung Chui |
Teacher | Mr. Long Tin Chan |
School | Diocesan Boys’ School |
Topic | On the Variations of the Brachistochrone Curve |
Team Members | Nick Hang Cheng, Hei Chai Shum, Chun Shing Tong |
Teacher | Mr. Long Tin Chan |
School | Diocesan Boys’ School |
Topic | On the Generalization of the Triangle Peg Problem to Higher Dimensions |
Team Members | Chun Hei Mok, Chi Kong Wei, Wang Kin To |
Teacher | Mr. Ka On Cho |
School | S.K.H. Tsang Shiu Tim Secondary School |
Topic | Investigation on the Buffon-Laplace Needle Problem |
Team Members | Hui Yat Cheung, Pak Kiu Fong, Shing Him Lee, Justin Ka Chai Leung, Siu Lam Ting |
Teacher | Mr. Wai Man Chu |
School | Wah Yan College, Kowloon |