U.S. Team Wins First Place at International Math Olympiad

Re:U.S. Team Wins First Place at International Math Olympiad by orbifold on Thursday August 04, 2016 @02:21AM (#12223757)

I know a few IMO participants from Germany, a lot of those that perform extremely well also end up as awesome research mathematicians (Faltings, Scholtze) I am not sure the same can be said of the other countries.

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Re:U.S. Team Wins First Place at International Math Olympiad by nl on Thursday August 04, 2016 @02:57AM (#12223890)

There have been 14 non-German Fields medal winners who were former IMO medallists, so they seem to have done ok[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_International_Mathemat...

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Re:U.S. Team Wins First Place at International Math Olympiad by allendoerfer on Thursday August 04, 2016 @07:46AM (#12224860)

What you are hinting reminds me of my e-sport days. At some point, when the game I liked was dying, European professionals moved on to other games. At first Koreans were still playing and would win all the remaining European competitions, later they moved on, too, and the remaining clubs all bought Chinese teams.

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Re:U.S. Team Wins First Place at International Math Olympiad by 77pt77 on Thursday August 04, 2016 @08:43AM (#12225100)

Some top imo scorers will end up as great math researchers but that's far from a trend.

There's also a lot of top mathematicians that failed miserably at the imo.

I think some fields in math are very close to this style of problems while others are so alien that good scores at the imo are a useless predictor of success for those fields.

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