List of International Mathematical Olympiad participants

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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] For example, fields such as functional analysis, calculus, field theory (and other branches of abstract algebra), and topology are generally not present on the six-problem paper.[2] 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.[3]

This is a list of participants whom have achieved notability. This includes participants that went on to become notable mathematicians and participants whom scored highly.

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[edit] List of 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 of 42).

Name[4] Team(s) Years
 Christian Reiher   Germany   2000   2001   2002   2003   1999 B 
 Reid Barton   United States   1998   1999   2000   2001 P 
 Wolfgang Burmeister   GDR   1968   1970   1971   1967 S   1969 S 
 Iurie Boreico   Moldova   2004   2005 P   2006 P   2003 S   2007 S 
 Martin Harterich   FRG   1986   1987 P   1989   1988 S   1985 B 
 László Lovász   Hungary   1964   1965   1966   1963 S 
 József Pelikán   Hungary   1964   1965   1966   1963 S 
 Nikolai Nikolov   Bulgaria   1992   1993   1995 P   1994 S 
 Kentaro Nagao   Japan   1998   1999   2000   1997 S 
 Vladimir Barzov   Bulgaria   2000   2001   2002   1999 S 
 Peter Scholze   Germany   2005 P   2006   2007   2004 S 
 Simon Norton   United Kingdom   1967   1968   1969 
 John Rickard   United Kingdom   1975   1976   1977 
 Sergey Ivanov   Soviet Union   1987 P   1988   1989 P 
 Theodor Banica   Romania   1989   1990   1991 
 Eugenia Malinnikova   Soviet Union   1989   1990 P   1991 P 
 Serguei Norine   Russia   1994 P   1995 P   1996 
 Yuly 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 		  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 

[edit] List of notable participants

A number of IMO medalists went on to become notable mathematicians. The following medalists received either a Nevanlinna Prize, a Knuth Prize, a Gödel Prize, a Fields Medal, or a Wolf Prize for original work in either computer science or mathematics. G denotes a gold medal, S denotes a silver medal, and B denotes a bronze medal.

Name[4] Team IMO medal(s) Nevanlinna Prize Knuth Prize Gödel Prize Fields Medal Wolf Prize
László Lovász Hungary G 1966, G 1965, G 1964, S 1963 1999 2001 1999
László Babai Hungary G 1968, S 1967, B 1966 1993
Peter Shor U.S.A. S 1977 1998 1999
Johan Håstad Sweden G 1977 1994
Alexander Razborov Soviet Union G 1979 1990 2007
Grigory Margulis[5] Soviet Union S 1962 1978 2005
Yuri Matiyasevich Soviet Union G 1964
Matiyasevich solved Hilbert's tenth problem in 1970.
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz France G 1974 1994
Richard Borcherds United Kingdom G 1978, S 1977 1998
Timothy Gowers United Kingdom G 1981 1998
Laurent Lafforgue France S 1985, S 1984 2002
Terence Tao Australia G 1988, S 1987, B 1986 2006
Grigori Perelman Soviet Union G 1982[6] 2006[7]
Vladimir Drinfel'd Soviet Union G 1969[8] 1990
Gerd Faltings Germany G 1971 1986

[edit] See also

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO) (2-1-08).
  2. ^ (Olson 2004)
  3. ^ 47th International Mathematical Olympiad Results (2-1-08).
  4. ^ a b (Lord 2001)
  5. ^ Margulis was the seventh mathematician to ever win both a Fields medal and a Wolf Prize.
  6. ^ Perelmen wrote a perfect paper in 1982.
  7. ^ Perelman proved the Poincaré conjecture, one the the Millennium Prize Problems for which a $1,000,000 reward is offered by the Clay Mathematics Institute He, however, did not collect the reward, and in fact declined the Fields Medal.
  8. ^ Drinfel'd wrote a perfect paper in 1969.

[edit] References

  • Olson, Steve (2004), Count Down, Houghton Miffln, ISBN 0-618-25141-3 
  • Lord, Mary (2001), Michael Jordans of Math, U.S. News & World Report 

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