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That's "International Maths Olympiad".
Did any of you Brits catch "Beautiful Young Minds" on BBC2
last night?
Comments welcome:smile:

David

[QUOTE=davieddy;116379]That's "International Maths Olympiad".
Did any of you Brits catch "Beautiful Young Minds" on BBC2
last night?
Comments welcome:smile:

David[/QUOTE]

Indeed. I'd like to hear comments as well.

I don't know what the selection process is currently for the U.S. team,
but back when I was in high school it was as follows.

An initial exam was taken by a large number of high school students.
This exam was fairly easy. All students scoring above a certain threshold
were then invited to take a second exam. From this second exam, 12
students were then invited to a special 'camp' for a week of intense
study & testing. The final group of 6 was selected from this group.
The whole thing was sponsored by the Mathematical Association of America.

In 1973 I got invited to the camp, but had to turn it down. Why?
Because it conflicted with the ISEF (Intl Science & Engineering Fair).
It was impossible to attend both. Since I won an all expense paid trip
to the Nobel Prize Ceremony in 1973 from ISEF, I think I made the right
choice.

[quote=R.D. Silverman;116387]
In 1973 I got invited to the camp, but had to turn it down. Why?
Because it conflicted with the ISEF (Intl Science & Engineering Fair).
It was impossible to attend both. Since I won an all expense paid trip
to the Nobel Prize Ceremony in 1973 from ISEF, I think I made the right
choice.[/quote]

You chickened out:lol:

Just watched it on the BBC iPlayer. Very interesting.

[URL]http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/[/URL]