IMO, International Mathematical Olympiad, is the highest-level international competition for secondary school mathematics, initiated by Eastern European countries. It is the world’s premier mathematics event for high school students globally. BoJone is very interested in it, but it focuses too much on pure mathematics with little applied mathematics, which makes BoJone reluctant to devote too much energy to it, as I have always been more interested in mathematics and physics with obvious practical application significance.
In the 51st International Mathematical Olympiad held in Astana, the capital of the Republic of Kazakhstan, from July 2–14, 2010, all six contestants of the Chinese team won gold medals. Among them, Nie Zipei from Shanghai was the only contestant in this competition to achieve a perfect score of 42, earning the title of absolute champion. In addition, Jialun Li scored 36, Yikang Xiao scored 34, Min Zhang scored 30, Li Lai scored 28, and Su Jun scored 27. The Chinese team won the first place in the total team score for the third consecutive year with a total score of 197 (out of 252) (having finished as runner-up in 2007). Since 1985, the Chinese team has participated 25 times and won the championship 16 times; they did not participate in the 1998 competition held in Taiwan. In this competition, the Russian team won the runner-up with 169 points, and the US team finished third, just one point behind.
Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Massimov and Minister of Education and Science Tuimebayev presented gold medals and prizes to the Chinese team members at the award ceremony held on the 13th. Zhou Li, the Chinese Ambassador to Kazakhstan, attended the award ceremony and congratulated the Chinese contestants on their excellent results.
The first competition was held in Romania in July 1959 and has been held annually since then. Initially, only seven countries, including Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, participated. Since 1967, the scale of the competition has gradually expanded, with countries from Europe, America, Asia, Latin America, and Africa joining successively, making the competition a global secondary school mathematics contest. Kazakhstan is the first CIS country to host this event. Next year’s International Mathematical Olympiad will be held in the Netherlands from July 17–23, 2011.
Download the problems for this competition (Chinese): 2010_IMO_chs.pdf
Problems in other languages and years: http://www.imo-official.org/problems.aspx
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