For many it is a real taboo, a cross to embrace for all the years of school. We are talking about the mathematics, a material hated by many, but also the result of great passion for those few who remain. Like Thomas Passera, an eighteen year old from Monza who has just won the Spruce Award of maths applied established byCatholic University.
The best of ten thousand students
Competition is one of the toughest in this area across the country. To participate, in fact, they were well ten thousand children from five hundred schools Italian. But no one was able to compete with Thomas Passera, a final year student at the high school of applied sciences Paolo Frisi of Monza. The boy, of Italian father and Polish mother, passed the first with great ease preselective test, which allowed the commission to considerably streamline the number of contenders.
Solo six hundred boys, divided between the universities of Milan and Rome, had the opportunity to participate in the final exam, which consisted of three questions to be demonstrated and five closed-ended questions, which ranged from school mathematics to doctrine applied to economics. You can imagine the great satisfaction of Thomas who in the past he had already participated in many races 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 aula magna of the Catholic University.
A passion born in the motherland
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.
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!
