The European Mathematical Society (EMS), through its committee for
Raising Public Awareness of Mathematics, ran a competition for articles
that have appeared in a newspaper or general magazine. First prize:
"Unbreakable cyber-secrets," Nuno Crato (Instituto superior de Economia
e Gestao, Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, Portugal); second prize:
"Playing a Trick on Uncertainty," by F. Thomas Bruss (Universite Libre
de Bruxelles, Belgium); third prize: "For those who think mathematics
dreary," by Sava Grozdev, Ivan Derzhanski and Evgenia Sendova (Union of
Bulgarian Mathematicians, Sofia, Bulgaria). Read the winning articles,
in their original languages and translated into English.
http://www.mat.dtu.dk/people/V.L.Hansen/rpa/resultartcomp.html.