Governors Meet Winning U.S. International Mathematical
THE NEWSLETTER OF THE MATHEMATICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA Governors Meet Winning U.S. International Volume 14, Number 5 Mathematical Olympiad Team Members of the winning U.S. team at the In way, with major stories in Time, Newsweek, The ternational Mathematical Olympiad met with New York Times, The Washington Post, USA the Board of Governors of the MAA at the Today, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Los In this Issue SummerMathFest in Minneapolis where they Angeles Times, People magazine, and scores of were warmly congratulated for their achieve local and regional newspapers across the coun 3 Career Advising ment. try.Senator Edward Kennedy had the entire story from The Boston Globe reprinted in the Senate The perfect score obtained by each of the six Congressional Record of July 20th. 5 Search Committee team members, all students at public high Diary schools in the United States, was a first in the The members of the U.S. team were: 35-yearhistory of the IMO, and gave the U.S. Jeremy Bern, Ithaca High School, Ithaca, NY team an easy victory over the other 68 teams Aleksandr L. Khazanov, Stuyvesant High 9 Update on Project from around the world. School, New York, NY MATHEMATICS! The nine-hour competition took place July 8 JacobA. Lurie, Montgomery Blair High School, 20 in Hong Kong, and each member of the Silver Spring, MD 11 Networks in U.S. team received a gold medal. The final Noam M. Shazeer, Swampscott High School, FOCUS order among the top five teams was U.S.A., Swampscott, MA China, Russia, Bulgaria, and Hungary.
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