For many it is a real taboo, a cross to be embraced throughout the school years. We are talking about mathematics, a subject hated by many, but also the result of great passion for those few remaining. Likes Thomas Passera, an eighteen-year-old from Monza who has just won the Large Prize of applied mathematics established by the Catholic University.
The best of ten thousand students
Competition is one of the most difficult in this area throughout the country. In fact, as many as ten thousand young people from five hundred Italian schools participated. But no one has managed to compete with Thomas Passera, a senior student at the Paul Frisi high school in Applied Sciences in Monza. The boy, of an Italian father and Polish mother, easily overcame the first preselective trials, which allowed the commission to considerably reduce the number of contenders.
Only six hundred children, divided between the universities of Milan and Rome, had the opportunity to participate in the final test, which consisted of three questions to be demonstrated and five closed-ended questionsranging from school mathematics to economics doctrine. You can imagine the great satisfaction of Thomas, who in the past had already participated in many competitions of this type (he had won the Italian title for the middle school category in the past), when the competition commission handed him the diploma in the main hall of the Catholic University.
A passion born in the mother country
But when and where is such a great and unusual passion for a boy born in the era of video games and digital entertainment? Since childhood Thomas Passera has approached laboratories of Science and robotics in his mother's country, Poland. So he approached his favorite subjects, mathematics and chemistry. But his mind is not just a heap of numbers and formulas, since among his interests there are also the philosophy , theatrical criticism.
But when and where is a passion so great and unusual for a boy in the era of video games and digital entertainment? As a child, Thomas Passera approached science and robotics laboratories in the mother country, Poland. So he approached his favorite subjects di lui, mathematics and chemistry. But his mind of him is not just a heap of numbers and formulas, since his interests of him include philosophy and theater criticism.
Don't make the mistake of thinking, though, that Thomas is your typical house and studio geek! In his life, in fact, there is no lack of interest in him sports: the boy, in fact, disposes of the long hours of study with the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, which began after years of martial arts.
But what will Thomas Passera do when he grows up? L'Bocconi University of Milan it is already waiting for him, eager to embrace such a prodigy in its corridors. But the boy has already anticipated that he does not want to study pure mathematics, but disciplines like Economics and Finance, who can indulge his inclination to always seek aapplying numbers to real life.
And we just have to make him the most sincere good luck!
Don't make the mistake of thinking, however, that Thomas is the typical nerd all around the house and studio! In his life, in fact, there is no lack of interest in sports: in fact, the boy disposes of the long hours of study with Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, which he started after years of martial arts.
But what will Thomas Passera do when he grows up? the Bocconi University of Milan is already waiting for him, anxious to embrace such a prodigy among its corridors. But the boy has already anticipated that he does not want to study pure mathematics, but disciplines like Economics and Finance, which can support his inclination to always look for an application of numbers to real life.
And we just have to do him the most sincere good luck!
