International Mathematical Olympiad 2001 Medalists Announced on
Web
July 12, 2001--Results from the 42nd International Mathematical Olympiad
(IMO) are now available at http://imo.wolfram.com, the
official
IMO scoring
site. The competition phase of the IMO, which brought together over 450 of
the most talented high-school-age mathematicians from more than 80
countries, concluded Monday in Washington, D.C. The awards ceremony will
be
held tomorrow at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, but
official scores can be seen worldwide at the scoring web site.
The site, hosted by IMO title sponsor Wolfram Research, Inc., contains
scoring results for all winning students as well as the competition
problems
and solutions. Also available at the IMO site are contestant photos and
profiles, interesting IMO facts (such as the names of Fields Medalists who
competed previously), and other pictures from this year's event.
Notable performers from IMO 2001 include USA team member Reid Barton, who
became the first contestant ever to win four IMO gold medals. He, along
with
teammate Gabriel Carroll, received a perfect score on this year's exam.
Overall, the USA team received four gold and two silver medals. The China
team also repeated its outstanding performance of last year, with all team
members taking home gold medals; team Russia was close behind with five
gold
medals and one silver.
This is the first time the IMO has had a scoring site, and hence the
ability
to show award recipients both by score and by country as well as student
scoring distributions and performance for each question. The scoring
distributions and graphs were generated using Mathematica,
Wolfram Research'
s flagship technical computing software. In addition to hosting the
scoring
web site, Wolfram Research also donated a copy of Mathematica for
Students
4.1 to each IMO student contestant.
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