List of International Mathematical Olympiad participants
The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is an annual international high school mathematics competition focused primarily on pre-collegiate mathematics, and is the oldest of the international science olympiads.[1] The awards for exceptional performance include medals for roughly the top half participants, and honorable mentions for participants who solve at least one problem perfectly.[2]
This is a list of participants who have achieved notability. This includes participants that went on to become notable mathematicians, participants who won medals at an exceptionally young age, or participants who scored highly.
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[edit] Exceptionally young participants
- Bronze medal
- Terence Tao (Australia), in 1986 at age 10 years, 358 days
- Raúl Chávez Sarmiento (Peru), in 2009 at age 11 years, 265 days
- Akshay Venkatesh (Australia), in 1994 at age 12 years, 235 days
- Silver medal
- Terence Tao (Australia), in 1987 at age 11 years, 359 days
- Raúl Chávez Sarmiento (Peru), in 2010 at age 12 years, 257 days
- Lee Su-hong (South Korea), in 2007 at age 13 years, 10 months[3][4]
- Gold medal
- Terence Tao (Australia), in 1988 at age 12 years, 365 days
- Raúl Chávez Sarmiento (Peru), in 2011 at age 13 years, 271 days
- Ömer Cerrahoğlu (Romania), in 2009 at age 14 years, 80 days[5]
- Lee Su-hong (South Korea), in 2008 at age 14 years, 10 months[3][4]
- Tiankai Liu (USA), in 2001 at age 14[6]
- Zhuo Qun (Alex) Song (Canada), in 2011 at age 14[7][8]
- Bruce Merry (South Africa), in 1997 at age 15
- Perfect score
- Noam Elkies (USA), in 1981 at age 14 years, 323 days
- Sergei Konyagin (Soviet Union), in 1972 at age 15 years, 77 days
- Vladimir Drinfel'd (Soviet Union), in 1969 at age 15 years, 147 days
- Aleksandr Khazanov (USA), in 1994, at age 15½ years
- Stanislav Smirnov (Soviet Union), in 1986 at age 15 years, 310 days
[edit] High-scoring participants
The following table lists all IMO Winners who have won at least three gold medals, with corresponding years and non-gold medals received noted (S denotes a silver medal, B denotes a bronze medal and P denotes a perfect score.)
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| Lisa Sauermann | Germany | 2007 S | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 P |
| Christian Reiher | Germany | 1999 B | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 |
| Reid W. Barton | United States | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 P | |
| Wolfgang Burmeister | East Germany | 1967 S | 1968 | 1969 S | 1970 P | 1971 |
| Iurie Boreico | Moldova | 2003 S | 2004 | 2005 P | 2006 P | 2007 S |
| Martin Härterich | West Germany | 1985 B | 1986 | 1987 P | 1988 S | 1989 |
| Teodor von Burg | Serbia | 2007 B | 2008 S | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 |
| László Lovász | Hungary | 1963 S | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | |
| József Pelikán | Hungary | 1963 S | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | |
| Nikolay Nikolov | Bulgaria | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 S | 1995 P | |
| Kentaro Nagao | Japan | 1997 S | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | |
| Vladimir Barzov | Bulgaria | 1999 S | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | |
| Peter Scholze | Germany | 2004 S | 2005 P | 2006 | 2007 | |
| Makoto Soejima | Japan | 2005 B | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 P | |
| Simon Norton | United Kingdom | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 P | ||
| John Rickard | United Kingdom | 1975 P | 1976 | 1977 P | ||
| Sergey Ivanov | Soviet Union | 1987 P | 1988 | 1989 P | ||
| Theodor Banica | Romania | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | ||
| Evgenia Malinnikova | Soviet Union | 1989 | 1990 P | 1991 P | ||
| Sergey Norin | Russia | 1994 P | 1995 P | 1996 | ||
| Yuliy Sannikov | Ukraine | 1994 P | 1995 | 1996 | ||
| Ciprian Manolescu | Romania | 1995 P | 1996 P | 1997 P | ||
| Ivan Ivanov | Bulgaria | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | ||
| Nikolai Dourov | Russia | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | ||
| Tamás Terpai | Hungary | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | ||
| Stefan Hornet | Romania | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | ||
| Vladimir Dremov | Russia | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | ||
| Mihai Manea | Romania | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | ||
| Tiankai Liu | United States | 2001 | 2002 | 2004 | ||
| Oleg Golberg | Russia ('02, '03) United States ('04) |
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| Béla András Rácz | Hungary | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 P | ||
| Andrey Badzyan | Russia | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 P | ||
| Rosen Kralev | Bulgaria | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 P | ||
| Przemysław Mazur | Poland | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | ||
| Tak Wing Ching | Hong Kong | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | ||
[edit] Notable participants
A number of IMO medalists have gone on to become notable mathematicians. The following IMO medalists have received a Fields Medal, a Wolf Prize or a Clay Research Award, awards which recognise groundbreaking research in mathematics; a European Mathematical Society Prize, an award which recognizes young researchers; or one of the American Mathematical Society's awards (a Blumenthal Award in Pure Mathematics, Bôcher Memorial Prize in Analysis, Cole Prize in Algebra, Cole Prize in Number Theory or Veblen Prize in Geometry and Topology) recognizing research in specific mathematical fields.
G denotes an IMO gold medal, S denotes a silver medal, B denotes a bronze medal, and P denotes a perfect paper.
| Name | Team | IMO | Fields Medal | Wolf Prize | EMS Prize | AMS research prizes | Clay Award |
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| Grigory Margulis | Soviet Union |
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| George Lusztig | Romania |
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| Henryk Iwaniec | Poland |
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| László Lovász | Hungary |
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| Andrei Suslin | Soviet Union |
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| Vladimir Drinfel'd | Soviet Union |
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| Alexander Merkurjev | Soviet Union |
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| János Kollár | Hungary |
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| Jean-Christophe Yoccoz | France |
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| Paul Vojta | United States |
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| Alexander Goncharov | Soviet Union |
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| Richard Borcherds | United Kingdom |
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| Timothy Gowers | United Kingdom |
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| Peter Kronheimer | United Kingdom |
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| Gábor Tardos | Hungary |
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| Grigori Perelman | Soviet Union |
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| Alexis Bonnet | France |
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| Laurent Lafforgue | France |
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| Daniel Tătaru | Romania |
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| Zoltán Szabó | Hungary |
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| Ricardo Pérez-Marco | Spain |
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| Dominic Joyce | United Kingdom |
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| Stanislav Smirnov | Soviet Union |
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| Terence Tao | Australia |
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| Elon Lindenstrauss | Israel |
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| Emmanuel Grenier | France |
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| Artur Ávila | Brazil |
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| Ben J. Green | United Kingdom |
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| Maryam Mirzakhani | Iran |
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| Bo'az Klartag | Israel |
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IMO medalists have also gone on to become notable computer scientists. The following IMO medalists have received a Nevanlinna Prize, a Knuth Prize, or a Gödel Prize; these awards recognise research in theoretical computer science. G denotes an IMO gold medal, S denotes a silver medal, B denotes a bronze medal, and P denotes a perfect paper.
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| László Lovász | Hungary |
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| László Babai | Hungary |
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| Johan Håstad | Sweden |
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| Peter Shor | United States |
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| Alexander Razborov | Soviet Union |
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[edit] See also
- Science Olympiad
- Provincial Mathematical Olympiad
- List of mathematics competitions
- List of International Mathematical Olympiads
[edit] Notes
- ^ "International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO)". 2-1-08. http://olympiads.win.tue.nl/imo/.
- ^ "47th International Mathematical Olympiad Results". 2-1-08. http://imo2006.dmfa.si/results_itd.html.
- ^ a b "Solo study is a factor for prodigy". JoongAng Daily. November 28, 2009. http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2913154.
- ^ a b "15-Year-Old Math Prodigy Enters SNU". Korea Times. November 21, 2008. http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/09/113_34830.html.
- ^ http://www.viitoriolimpici.ro/olimp/profileArchive.htm?method=view&type=student&id=2
- ^ Toussaint, Rachel Grace (April 25, 2004). "Art by numbers". Portsmouth Herald. http://archive.seacoastonline.com/2004news/04252004/news/12586.htm.
- ^ http://cms.math.ca/MediaReleases/2011/imo-results
- ^ http://cms.math.ca/opsmedia/imo/resources/biographies.pdf
- ^ Perelman was awarded a Fields Medal for his proof of the Poincaré conjecture, but he declined the Medal.
- ^ Perelman was awarded an EMS prize for his proof of the Soul theorem, but he declined the prize.
[edit] References
- Olson, Steve (2004). Count Down: Six Kids Vie for Glory at the World's Toughest Math Competition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0618251413
- Lord, Mary (2001). Michael Jordans of Math. U.S. News & World Report
