50th IMO - 50 Years of International Mathematical Olympiads

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. 50th International Mathematical Olympiad – Germany 2009

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2

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3. 50th International Mathematical Olympiad– Germany 2009

   1. Committees

      • Hans-Dietrich Gronau, Hanns-Heinrich Langmann, Dierk Schleicher

      Pages 5-12

   2. Regulations

      • Hans-Dietrich Gronau, Hanns-Heinrich Langmann, Dierk Schleicher

      Pages 13-19

   3. Carl Friedrich Gauss, Curvature, and the Cover Art of the 50th IMO

      • Hans-Dietrich Gronau, Hanns-Heinrich Langmann, Dierk Schleicher

      Pages 21-25

   4. Programme

      • Hans-Dietrich Gronau, Hanns-Heinrich Langmann, Dierk Schleicher

      Pages 27-45

   5. Participants

      • Hans-Dietrich Gronau, Hanns-Heinrich Langmann, Dierk Schleicher

      Pages 47-100

   6. Mathematical Competition

      • Hans-Dietrich Gronau, Hanns-Heinrich Langmann, Dierk Schleicher

      Pages 101-153

   7. Mathematical Guests of Honour

      • Hans-Dietrich Gronau, Hanns-Heinrich Langmann, Dierk Schleicher

      Pages 155-226

4. History: 50 Years International Mathematical Olympiads

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 227-227

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5. History: 50 Years InternationalMathematical Olympiads

   1. Brief Survey

      • Hans-Dietrich Gronau, Hanns-Heinrich Langmann, Dierk Schleicher

      Pages 229-231

   2. All IMOs

      • Hans-Dietrich Gronau, Hanns-Heinrich Langmann, Dierk Schleicher

      Pages 233-234

   3. All Countries

      • Hans-Dietrich Gronau, Hanns-Heinrich Langmann, Dierk Schleicher

      Pages 235-238

   4. All Results

      • Hans-Dietrich Gronau, Hanns-Heinrich Langmann, Dierk Schleicher

      Pages 239-270

   5. Memories

      • Hans-Dietrich Gronau, Hanns-Heinrich Langmann, Dierk Schleicher

      Pages 271-283

   6. Hall of Fame

      • Hans-Dietrich Gronau, Hanns-Heinrich Langmann, Dierk Schleicher

      Pages 285-289

   7. The Golden Microphone

      • Rafael Sánchez Lamoneda

      Pages 291-294

6. Back Matter

   Pages 295-297

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In July 2009 Germany hosted the 50th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). For the very first time the number of participating countries exceeded 100, with 104 countries from all continents. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the IMO provides an ideal opportunity to look back over the past five decades and to review its development to become a worldwide event. This book is a report about the 50th IMO as well as the IMO history. A lot of data about all the 50 IMOs are included. We list the most successful contestants, the results of the 50 Olympiads and the 112 countries that have ever taken part. It is impressive to see that many of the world’s leading research mathematicians were among the most successful IMO participants in their youth. Six of them gave presentations at a special celebration: Bollobás, Gowers, Lovász, Smirnov, Tao and Yoccoz. This book is aimed at students in the IMO age group and all those who have interest in this worldwide leading competition for highschool students.

• IMO
• Internationale Mathematik-Olympiade

From the reviews:

“50^th IMO – 50 Years of International Mathematical Olympia is a pleasant, entertaining, and informative volume. This lovely book ‘is aimed at students in the IMO age group and seeks to demonstrate that mathematics is an active and lively subject, thousands of years old and yet young and fresh, as ever’ … . the book will be enjoyed by a wider audience. … a beautiful book and a very interesting read for every one who is interested in mathematics and the IMOs – even if marginally.” (Alex Bogomolny, The Mathematical Association of America, April, 2011)

• , Institut für Mathematik, Universität Rostock, Rostock, Germany

  Hans-Dietrich Gronau

• , Bundeswettbewerb Mathematik, Bildung & Begabung e.V., Bonn, Germany

  Hanns-Heinrich Langmann

• Research I, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany

  Dierk Schleicher

Prof. Dr. Hans-Dietrich Gronau is Professor of Mathematics at Rostock University, Rostock Dipl.Math. Hanns-Heinrich Langmann is a member of Bildung & Begabung e.V., Bundeswettbewerb Mathematik, Bonn Prof. Dr. Dierk Schleicher ist Professor of Mathematics at Jacobs University, Bremen

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