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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
by orbifold 10y ago
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.
- nl 10y agoThere 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_Mathematical_Olympiad_participants#Notable_participants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_International_Mathemat...
- allendoerfer 10y agoWhat 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.
- 77pt77 10y agoSome 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.