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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