The Arnold Hagger Mathematics Prize 2023

The 2023 is competition has been concluded, and consequently
this year's Prize Paper can now be realeased.
Recent papers: 2023, 2022 and 2021 

History Of The Competition
The Arnold Hagger Prize is named after one of the great Mathematics masters at Shrewsbury School in the 1950s who, along with Basil Saint and Frank Hadland, established Mathematics as a serious subject at the school.
The competition had previously been simply known as “The Mathematics Prize”, under which title an almost unbroken run of the annual competition paper stretches back in the school archives to 1890. This makes it, possibly, one of the longest continually run mathematics competitions in the country.
Arnold arrived in 1947 from RAF Shawbury where he had taught navigation durung the Second World War. In 1946 he was the navigator of the first aircraft that flew over the North Pole. He died in 1985 and the renaming of the prize was prompted by substantial gift of money to the School by his wife, Margaret, in honour of her late husband.

Arnold Hagger

Spotlight on the 2019 Competition
The 2019 competition was fought over by 96 pupils from across the School who volunteered to sit the one-and-a-half-hour paper on a Thursday evening under examination conditions. As is the tradition, the questions in this year's paper relied as much upon native wit and cunning as upon the mathematics formally taught in lessons. The solutions submitted by the pupils displayed considerable ingenuity and intelligence and are rewarding to mark.
Winners have been announced and prizes given by the Headmaster to the champion in each year group. A Senior Cup was also presented to the overall Upper School winner's House and a Junior Cup to the overall Lower School winner's House.
Above all the aim of the competition is to mentally stimulate and challenge through thought-provoking questions that highlight areas of quirky and interesting mathematics.

 Here is the 2019 paper 

Arnold Hagger Awards Presentation in October 2019

Archive : Arnold Hagger Mathematics Prize Papers
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Information on who wrote the various papers (a work in progress)

Mathematics Competition Preparation
For pupils preparing for the BMO (British Mathematics Olympiad)
• Complex Numbers in Geometry by Marko Radavanovic, 2007
• Diamonds in Mathematical Inequalities  by Tran Phuong, 2007

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