US Wins Math Olympiad For First Time In 21 Years
An anonymous reader writes: The U.S. won the International Mathematical Olympiad for the first time in 21 years. Gender diversity is brought up in this NPR article because the eight team members on the U.S. team were all male, but they made a point to mention that of the top 12 people participating in the U.S. Math Olympiad, 2 are female, which is better than last year when there were no females in the top 12. "I will say that it's not really a super-great spectator sport, in the sense that if you are watching them, it will look like they are thinking," Po-Shen Loh, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and head coach for Team USA says. "Although I will assure you that inside their heads, if you could spectate, that would be quite a sport."
...is mentioned here the first time at ./ since 1997 (birth of ./), here are the winners since:
2014, 2013, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2006, 2005, 2004, v2, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997: China
2007, 1999: Russia
2015: U.S.A.
2012: South Korea
2003: Bulgaria
1998: Iran
There are 2 types of people in the world - those who understand decimal and those who don't.