2011 IMO Team Results

Here are the top 10 teams from the 52nd IMO:

• People’s Republic of China
• United States of America
• Singapore
• Russian Federation
• Thailand
• Turkey
• Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
• Taiwan
• Romania
• Islamic Republic of Iran

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2011 IMO Results

The results are in from the 2011 IMO in Amsterdam.

• Lisa Sauermann, of Germany, returned for a 5th time to win her 5th medal and 4th gold with a perfect score!
• Singapore was extremely well represented with 3 of their participants in the top 10
• Team USA had some outstanding performances with every member winning a gold medal:
• David Yang – rank 4, score 36
• Benjamin Gunby – rank 14, score 30
• Evan O’Dorney – rank 14, score 30
• Xiaoyu He – rank 14, score 30
• Wenyu Cao – rank 25, score 29
• Mitchell Lee – rank 25, score 29

Congratulations to all the participants.

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Minipolymath3 project: 2011 IMO (via The polymath blog)

Terence Tao used question number 2 from the 2011 IMO to test the group problem solving on the Polymath blog.

This post marks the official opening of the mini-polymath3 project to solve a problem from the 2011 IMO.  I have decided to use Q2, in part to see how the polymath format would cope with a more geometrically themed problem. Problem 2.  Let be a finite set of at least two points in the plane. Assume that no three points of are collinear. A windmill is a process that starts with a line going through a single point $ … Read More

via The polymath blog

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2011 IMO – Day 2 Video

Here is a quick video synopsis of the second day of the IMO in Amsterdam:

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2011 IMO – Day 1 Video

Here is a video report on the first day of the IMO in Amsterdam:

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