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Less self-evident than their prowess was the exact significance of the American victory. "They showed the world!" suggests the justifiably proud U.S. coach, Walter Mientka, a math professor at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln...
...what's to cheer about? Well, one can always celebrate the sheer presence of extraordinary individual achievement. Mientka notes that several of his charges solved their problems in ways unanticipated by the judges. "You can almost see what happened in their cranium," he says. "And it's quite amazing. The point is, gosh, how could a student ever think of this...
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