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Are the Math olympiads similar to competitive coding?
by jammygit 7y ago
Are the Math olympiads similar to competitive coding?
- sir_kin 7y agoYeah. At the high school and college level, the Olympiads for math and CS are pretty analogous. But there's really popular semi-formal coding contests which exist outside academia which don't really have a math equivalent. I'd say math contests are more popular among high schoolers, and semi-formal coding contests more popular among college students. Art of Problem Solving (AoPS) [https://artofproblemsolving.com/ https://artofproblemsolving.com/] is a really good resource, and there's a very healthy online community. They're also similar in how olympiads are different from the "real thing" (TM). Academia.SE discussion about this [https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/86451/does-the-international-math-olympiad-help-research-mathematics/86489 https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/86451/does-the-...] As someone who did math olympiads in high school, my 2 cents is that they're a fantastic way to learn how to solve and approach problems and gain intuition. And I'd say intuition mainly comes from solving problems.