List of International Mathematical Olympiad participants
Encyclopedia
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 olympiad
s. 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.
This is a list of participants whom have achieved notability. This includes participants that went on to become notable mathematician
s, participants who won medals at an exceptionally young age, or participants who scored highly.
Silver medal
Gold medal
Perfect score
s. 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 Bôcher 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.
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.
International Mathematical Olympiad
The International Mathematical Olympiad is an annual six-problem, 42-point mathematical olympiad for pre-collegiate students and is the oldest of the International Science Olympiads. The first IMO was held in Romania in 1959. It has since been held annually, except in 1980...
(IMO) is an annual international high school
High school
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mathematics competition focused primarily on pre-collegiate
College
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mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
, and is the oldest of the international science olympiad
International Science Olympiad
The International Science Olympiads are a group of worldwide annual competitions in various areas of science. The competitions are designed for the 4-6 best high school students from each participating country selected through internal National Science Olympiads, with the exception of the IOL,...
s. 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.
This is a list of participants whom have achieved notability. This includes participants that went on to become notable mathematician
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
s, participants who won medals at an exceptionally young age, or participants who scored highly.
Exceptionally young participants
Bronze medal- Terence TaoTerence TaoTerence Chi-Shen Tao FRS is an Australian mathematician working primarily on harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, combinatorics, analytic number theory and representation theory...
(Australia), in 1986 at age - Raúl Chávez SarmientoRaúl Chávez SarmientoRaúl Arturo Chávez Sarmiento is a Peruvian child prodigy in mathematics. At the age of , he won a bronze medal at the 2009 International Mathematical Olympiad, making him the second youngest medalist in IMO history, behind Terence Tao who won bronze in 1986 at the age of 10.He won a silver medal...
(Peru), in 2009 at age - Akshay VenkateshAkshay VenkateshAkshay Venkatesh is an Indian Australian mathematician. His research interests are in the fields of counting, equidistribution problems in automorphic forms and number theory, in particular representation theory, locally symmetric spaces and ergodic theory...
(Australia), in 1994 at age
Silver medal
- Terence TaoTerence TaoTerence Chi-Shen Tao FRS is an Australian mathematician working primarily on harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, combinatorics, analytic number theory and representation theory...
(Australia), in 1987 at age - Raúl Chávez SarmientoRaúl Chávez SarmientoRaúl Arturo Chávez Sarmiento is a Peruvian child prodigy in mathematics. At the age of , he won a bronze medal at the 2009 International Mathematical Olympiad, making him the second youngest medalist in IMO history, behind Terence Tao who won bronze in 1986 at the age of 10.He won a silver medal...
(Peru), in 2010 at age - Lee Su-hong (South Korea), in 2007 at age 13 years, 10 months
Gold medal
- Terence TaoTerence TaoTerence Chi-Shen Tao FRS is an Australian mathematician working primarily on harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, combinatorics, analytic number theory and representation theory...
(Australia), in 1988 at age - Raúl Chávez SarmientoRaúl Chávez SarmientoRaúl Arturo Chávez Sarmiento is a Peruvian child prodigy in mathematics. At the age of , he won a bronze medal at the 2009 International Mathematical Olympiad, making him the second youngest medalist in IMO history, behind Terence Tao who won bronze in 1986 at the age of 10.He won a silver medal...
(Peru), in 2011 at age - Ömer CerrahoğluÖmer CerrahoğluÖmer Cerrahoğlu is a Romanian child prodigy in mathematics. At the age of , he won a gold medal at the 2009 International Mathematical Olympiad, making him the third youngest gold medalist in IMO history, behind Terence Tao and Raúl Chávez Sarmiento...
(Romania), in 2009 at age - Lee Su-hong (South Korea), in 2008 at age 14 years, 10 months
- Tiankai Liu (USA), in 2001 at age 14
- Zhuo Qun (Alex) Song (Canada), in 2011 at age 14
- Bruce Merry (South Africa), in 1997 at age 15
Perfect score
- Noam ElkiesNoam ElkiesNoam David Elkies is an American mathematician and chess master.At age 14, Elkies received a gold medal with a perfect score at the International Mathematical Olympiad, the youngest ever to do so...
(USA), in 1981 at age - Sergei KonyaginSergei KonyaginSergei Vladimirovich Konyagin is a Russian mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the Moscow State University....
(Soviet Union), in 1972 at age - Vladimir Drinfel'dVladimir Drinfel'dVladimir Gershonovich Drinfel'd is a Ukrainian and Soviet mathematician at the University of Chicago.The work of Drinfeld related algebraic geometry over finite fields with number theory, especially the theory of automorphic forms, through the notions of elliptic module and the theory of the...
(Soviet Union), in 1969 at age - Aleksandr KhazanovAleksandr KhazanovAleksandr Leonidovich Khazanov was a Russian American mathematician. A child prodigy, he wrote a perfect paper at the International Mathematical Olympiad 1994, one of the youngest ever to do so. Khazanov was reported missing on June 17, 2001...
(USA), in 1994, at age 15½ years - Stanislav SmirnovStanislav SmirnovStanislav Konstantinovich Smirnov is a Russian mathematician currently working at the University of Geneva, who was awarded the Fields Medal in 2010. His research focuses on the fields of complex analysis, dynamical systems and probability theory.-Career:...
(Soviet Union), in 1986 at age
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.)| Name | Team(s) | Years | ||||
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| Lisa Sauermann Lisa Sauermann Lisa Sauermann is a German schoolgirl who became the most successful participant in the International Mathematical Olympiad. She is ranked No.1 in the International Mathematical Olympiad Hall of Fame, having won four gold medals and one silver medal at this event. In all of those occasions she... |
Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate... |
2007 S | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 P |
| Christian Reiher Christian Reiher Christian Reiher is a German mathematician. He is the second most successful participant in the history of the International Mathematical Olympiad, having won four gold medals in the years 2000 to 2003 and a bronze medal in 1999.Just after finishing his Abitur, he proved Kemnitz's conjecture, an... |
Germany | 1999 B | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 |
| Reid W. Barton Reid W. Barton Reid W. Barton was one of the most successful performers in the International Science Olympiads. He is an MIT alumnus.- Biography:Barton is the son of two environmental engineers... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 P | |
| Wolfgang Burmeister | East Germany German Democratic Republic The German Democratic Republic , informally called East Germany by West Germany and other countries, was a socialist state established in 1949 in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany, including East Berlin of the Allied-occupied capital city... |
1967 S | 1968 | 1969 S | 1970 P | 1971 |
| Iurie Boreico | Moldova Moldova Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked state in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the West and Ukraine to the North, East and South. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1991, as part... |
2003 S | 2004 | 2005 P | 2006 P | 2007 S |
| Martin Härterich | West Germany West Germany West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990.... |
1985 B | 1986 | 1987 P | 1988 S | 1989 |
| Teodor von Burg | Serbia | 2007 B | 2008 S | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 |
| László Lovász László Lovász László Lovász is a Hungarian mathematician, best known for his work in combinatorics, for which he was awarded the Wolf Prize and the Knuth Prize in 1999, and the Kyoto Prize in 2010.... |
Hungary Hungary Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The... |
1963 S | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | |
| József Pelikán | Hungary | 1963 S | 1964 | 1965 | 1966 | |
| Nikolay Nikolov Nikolay Nikolov (mathematician) Nikolay Nikolov is a Bulgarian mathematician working in abstract algebra and currently a Reader at Imperial College London.He obtained his PhD in 2002 under the supervision of Dan Segal.In 2007, he was awarded the LMS Whitehead Prize.... |
Bulgaria Bulgaria Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east... |
1992 | 1993 | 1994 S | 1995 P | |
| Kentaro Nagao | Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south... |
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 United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages... |
1967 | 1968 | 1969 P | ||
| John Rickard | United Kingdom | 1975 P | 1976 | 1977 P | ||
| Sergey Ivanov | Soviet Union Soviet Union The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991.... |
1987 P | 1988 | 1989 P | ||
| Theodor Banica | Romania Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea... |
1989 | 1990 | 1991 | ||
| Evgenia Malinnikova | Soviet Union | 1989 | 1990 P | 1991 P | ||
| Sergey Norin | Russia Russia Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects... |
1994 P | 1995 P | 1996 | ||
| Yuliy Sannikov | Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia... |
1994 P | 1995 | 1996 | ||
| Ciprian Manolescu Ciprian Manolescu Ciprian Manolescu is a Romanian mathematician. He is presently an Associate Professor in the mathematics department at the University of California, Los Angeles.... |
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) |
2002 | 2003 | 2004 | ||
| 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 Poland Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north... |
2006 | 2007 | 2008 | ||
| Tak Wing Ching | Hong Kong Hong Kong Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour... |
2009 | 2010 | 2011 | ||
Notable participants
A number of IMO medalists have gone on to become notable mathematicianMathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
s. The following IMO medalists have received a Fields Medal
Fields Medal
The Fields Medal, officially known as International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics, is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union , a meeting that takes place every four...
, a Wolf Prize
Wolf Prize in Mathematics
The Wolf Prize in Mathematics is awarded almost annually by the Wolf Foundation in Israel. It is one of the six Wolf Prizes established by the Foundation and awarded since 1978; the others are in Agriculture, Chemistry, Medicine, Physics and Arts...
or a Clay Research Award
Clay Research Award
The Clay Research Award is given annually by the Clay Mathematics Institute to mathematicians to recognize their achievement in mathematical research...
, awards which recognise groundbreaking research in mathematics; a European Mathematical Society Prize
European Mathematical Society
The European Mathematical Society is a European organization dedicated to the development of mathematics in Europe. Its members are different mathematical societies in Europe, academic institutions and individual mathematicians...
, an award which recognizes young researchers; or one of the American Mathematical Society
American Mathematical Society
The American Mathematical Society is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, which it does with various publications and conferences as well as annual monetary awards and prizes to mathematicians.The society is one of the...
's awards (a Bôcher Prize in Analysis, Cole Prize in Algebra
Cole Prize
The Frank Nelson Cole Prize, or Cole Prize for short, is one of two prizes awarded to mathematicians by the American Mathematical Society, one for an outstanding contribution to algebra, and the other for an outstanding contribution to number theory. The prize is named after Frank Nelson Cole, who...
, Cole Prize in Number Theory
Cole Prize
The Frank Nelson Cole Prize, or Cole Prize for short, is one of two prizes awarded to mathematicians by the American Mathematical Society, one for an outstanding contribution to algebra, and the other for an outstanding contribution to number theory. The prize is named after Frank Nelson Cole, who...
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 Fields Medal The Fields Medal, officially known as International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics, is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union , a meeting that takes place every four... |
Wolf Prize Wolf Prize in Mathematics The Wolf Prize in Mathematics is awarded almost annually by the Wolf Foundation in Israel. It is one of the six Wolf Prizes established by the Foundation and awarded since 1978; the others are in Agriculture, Chemistry, Medicine, Physics and Arts... |
EMS Prize European Mathematical Society The European Mathematical Society is a European organization dedicated to the development of mathematics in Europe. Its members are different mathematical societies in Europe, academic institutions and individual mathematicians... |
AMS research prizes | Clay Award Clay Research Award The Clay Research Award is given annually by the Clay Mathematics Institute to mathematicians to recognize their achievement in mathematical research... |
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| Grigory Margulis Grigory Margulis Gregori Aleksandrovich Margulis is a Russian mathematician known for his far-reaching work on lattices in Lie groups, and the introduction of methods from ergodic theory into diophantine approximation. He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1978 and a Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 2005, becoming the... |
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| Henryk Iwaniec Henryk Iwaniec Henryk Iwaniec is a Polish American mathematician, and since 1987 a professor at Rutgers University. He was awarded the fourteenth Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number Theory in 2002. He received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition in 2011.-Background and education:Iwaniec studied... |
Poland Poland Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north... |
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| László Lovász László Lovász László Lovász is a Hungarian mathematician, best known for his work in combinatorics, for which he was awarded the Wolf Prize and the Knuth Prize in 1999, and the Kyoto Prize in 2010.... |
Hungary Hungary Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The... |
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| Andrei Suslin Andrei Suslin Andrei Suslin is a Russian mathematician who has made major contributions to the field of algebra, especially algebraic K-theory and its connections with algebraic geometry. He is currently a Trustee Chair and Professor of mathematics at Northwestern University.He was born on December 27, 1950,... |
Soviet Union Soviet Union The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991.... |
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| Vladimir Drinfel'd Vladimir Drinfel'd Vladimir Gershonovich Drinfel'd is a Ukrainian and Soviet mathematician at the University of Chicago.The work of Drinfeld related algebraic geometry over finite fields with number theory, especially the theory of automorphic forms, through the notions of elliptic module and the theory of the... |
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| János Kollár János Kollár János Kollár is a Hungarian mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2005 and received the Cole Prize in 2006.... |
Hungary Hungary Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The... |
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| Jean-Christophe Yoccoz Jean-Christophe Yoccoz Jean-Christophe Yoccoz is a French mathematician. He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1994, for his work on dynamical systems.-Biography:... |
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| Paul Vojta Paul Vojta Paul Alan Vojta is an American mathematician, known for his work in number theory on diophantine geometry and diophantine approximation.... |
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| Alexander Goncharov Alexander Goncharov Alexander B. Goncharov is a Russian American mathematician and professor at Yale University. He won the EMS Prize in 1992.... |
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| Richard Borcherds Richard Borcherds Richard Ewen Borcherds is a British mathematician specializing in lattices, number theory, group theory, and infinite-dimensional algebras. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1998.- Personal life :... |
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| Timothy Gowers | United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages... |
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| Peter Kronheimer | United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages... |
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| Gábor Tardos Gábor Tardos Gábor Tardos is a Hungarian mathematician, currently a professor and Canada Research Chair at Simon Fraser University. He works mainly in combinatorics and computer science... |
Hungary Hungary Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The... |
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| Grigori Perelman Grigori Perelman Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman is a Russian mathematician who has made landmark contributions to Riemannian geometry and geometric topology.In 1992, Perelman proved the soul conjecture. In 2002, he proved Thurston's geometrization conjecture... |
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| Alexis Bonnet Alexis Bonnet Alexis Bonnet is a French mathematician and investor. For his research on partial differential equations he was awarded the 1996 EMS Prize. He earned his doctorate from Pierre and Marie Curie University in 1992, under supervision of Henri Berestycki.... |
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| Laurent Lafforgue Laurent Lafforgue Laurent Lafforgue is a French mathematician.He won 2 silver medals at International Mathematical Olympiad in 1984 and 1985.... |
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| Daniel Tătaru Daniel Tătaru Daniel Ioan Tătaru is a Romanian mathematician at University of California, Berkeley. He won the 2002 Bôcher Memorial Prize for his research on partial differential equations.... |
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| Zoltán Szabó Zoltán Szabó Zoltán Szabó is a professor of mathematics at Princeton University. He created, along with Peter Ozsváth, Heegaard Floer homology, a homology theory for 3-manifolds. For this contribution to the field of topology, Ozsváth and Szabó were awarded the 2007 Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry.He got his... |
Hungary Hungary Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The... |
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| Ricardo Pérez-Marco Ricardo Pérez-Marco Ricardo Pérez-Marco is a Spanish-French mathematician at the University of California, Los Angeles. He won the 1996 EMS Prize for his work on dynamical systems.... |
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| Dominic Joyce Dominic Joyce Dominic D. Joyce is a British mathematician, currently a professor at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Lincoln College since 1995. His undergraduate and doctoral studies were at Merton College. He undertook a DPhil in geometry under the supervision of Simon Donaldson, completed in 1992... |
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| Stanislav Smirnov Stanislav Smirnov Stanislav Konstantinovich Smirnov is a Russian mathematician currently working at the University of Geneva, who was awarded the Fields Medal in 2010. His research focuses on the fields of complex analysis, dynamical systems and probability theory.-Career:... |
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| Terence Tao Terence Tao Terence Chi-Shen Tao FRS is an Australian mathematician working primarily on harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, combinatorics, analytic number theory and representation theory... |
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| Elon Lindenstrauss Elon Lindenstrauss Elon Lindenstrauss is an Israeli mathematician, and a winner of the 2010 Fields Medal.Since 2004, he has been a professor at Princeton University... |
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| Ngô Bảo Châu Ngo Bao Chau Ngô Bảo Châu is a Vietnamese and French mathematician at the University of Chicago, best known for proving the fundamental lemma for automorphic forms proposed by Robert Langlands and Diana Shelstad. He is the first Vietnamese to receive the Fields Medal.- Biography :Chau was born in 1972, the... |
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| Emmanuel Grenier Emmanuel Grenier Emmanuel Grenier is a French mathematician. His research interests include hydrodynamics and mathematical biology.... |
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| Vincent Lafforgue Vincent Lafforgue Vincent Lafforgue is a French mathematician. He is a "Directeur de Recherches" at the Université d'Orléans since September 1, 2010. Lafforgue was awarded the 2000 EMS Prize for his contribution to the K-theory of operator algebras: the proof of the Baum–Connes conjecture for discrete co-compact... |
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IMO medalists have also gone on to become notable computer scientists. The following IMO medalists have received a Nevanlinna Prize
Nevanlinna Prize
The Rolf Nevanlinna Prize is awarded once every 4 years at the International Congress of Mathematicians, for outstanding contributions in Mathematical Aspects of Information Sciences including:...
, a Knuth Prize
Knuth Prize
The Donald E. Knuth Prize is a prize for outstanding contributions to the foundations of computer science, named after Donald E. Knuth.-History:...
, or a Gödel Prize
Gödel Prize
The Gödel Prize is a prize for outstanding papers in theoretical computer science, named after Kurt Gödel and awarded jointly by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science and the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory .The...
; 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.
| Name | Team | IMO | Nevanlinna Prize Nevanlinna Prize The Rolf Nevanlinna Prize is awarded once every 4 years at the International Congress of Mathematicians, for outstanding contributions in Mathematical Aspects of Information Sciences including:... |
Knuth Prize Knuth Prize The Donald E. Knuth Prize is a prize for outstanding contributions to the foundations of computer science, named after Donald E. Knuth.-History:... |
Gödel Prize Gödel Prize The Gödel Prize is a prize for outstanding papers in theoretical computer science, named after Kurt Gödel and awarded jointly by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science and the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory .The... |
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| László Lovász László Lovász László Lovász is a Hungarian mathematician, best known for his work in combinatorics, for which he was awarded the Wolf Prize and the Knuth Prize in 1999, and the Kyoto Prize in 2010.... |
Hungary Hungary Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The... |
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| László Babai László Babai László Babai is a Hungarian professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on computational complexity theory, algorithms, combinatorics, and finite groups, with an emphasis on the interactions between these fields... |
Hungary Hungary Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The... |
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| Johan Håstad Johan Håstad Johan Torkel Håstad is a Swedish theoretical computer scientist most known for his work on computational complexity theory. He was the recipient of the Gödel Prize in 1994 and 2011 and the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award in 1986, among other prizes... |
Sweden Sweden Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund.... |
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| Peter Shor Peter Shor Peter Williston Shor is an American professor of applied mathematics at MIT, most famous for his work on quantum computation, in particular for devising Shor's algorithm, a quantum algorithm for factoring exponentially faster than the best currently-known algorithm running on a classical... |
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
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| Alexander Razborov Alexander Razborov Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Razborov , sometimes known as Sasha Razborov, is a Soviet and Russian mathematician and computational theorist who won the Nevanlinna Prize in 1990 for introducing the "approximation method" in proving Boolean circuit lower bounds of some essential algorithmic problems, and... |
Soviet Union Soviet Union The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991.... |
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See also
- Science OlympiadScience OlympiadScience Olympiad is an American elementary, middle, or high school team competition which tests knowledge of various science topics and engineering ability. Over 6,200 teams from 49 U.S. states compete each year. Most teams compete in three levels of competition: regionals, states, and nationals...
- Provincial Mathematical Olympiad
- List of mathematics competitions
- List of International Mathematical Olympiads