Student of Mathematics Wins Hamilton Prize

Posted on: 10 November 2009

Trinity’s School of Mathematics student, Christopher Blair, was one of nine students nationwide awarded with the Hamilton prize at the recent Hamilton celebrations for his achievement in Mathematics during his third year of study.  Established to mark the best undergraduate students in the country, the annual Hamilton Day prize giving aims to encourage scholarship at undergraduate level and celebrate renowned Trinity graduate and Ireland’s greatest mathematician, William Rowan Hamilton (1805 – 1865).   Each of the prize winners will receive €1000.

Professor Efim Zelmanov, Jenny Young, Invest Northern Ireland, Christopher Blair, TCD and Professor Nicholas Canny, RIA.

The Hamilton prizes were awarded by the Russian born mathematician, Professor Efim Zelmonov from the University of California, San Diego.  Professor Zelmonov, who heads one of the world’s leading groups in algebraic research, later delivered the Irish Times/ Royal Irish Academy Hamilton Lecture in Trinity College titled Noncommutative Algebra: from Hamilton to our Time.  Hamilton Day 2009 was also sponsored by Invest Northern Ireland.