Nationally, he was one of only 1000 students to sit the gruelling 3.5 hour paper consisting of six problems requiring full written solutions.

For his brilliant effort Alan was awarded a Certificate of Qualification. A superb achievement - well done!

Please see below for a sample question from the British Mathematical Olympiad:

Let ABC be a triangle. Let L be the line through B perpendicular to AB. The perpendicular from A to BC meets L at the point D. The perpendicular bisector of BC meets L at point P. Let E be the foot of the perpendicular from D to AC. Prove that triangle BPE is isosceles.

Miss Law