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Three American High Schoolers Swept An International Competition By Crushing These Math Problems
Three American High Schoolers Swept An International Competition By Crushing These Math Problems
Walter HickeyAug 14, 2013, 18:54 IST
Three Phillips Exeter Academy students — Alex Song, Ray Y. Li, and Kevin C. Sun — shocked the world when they respectively won the gold, silver and bronze medals in the 54th International Mathematical Olympiad in Santa Marta, Colombia.
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While the U.S. team placed third overall — Song competed on Team Canada — the trio won the medals for individual performance.
The annual competition is a six question, two day, nine hour proof competition with competitors from over 100 countries on 9 continents.
Here's this year's set of questions via the IMO website. You have four and a half hours for each set. See if you can solve them:
