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...same time, however, he began winning big competitions. In both 1981 and 1982, he placed first in the U.S.A. Math Olympiad, and won a Gold Medal at the International Math Olympiad (with a perfect score in 1981). About this time, he realized he could make a living doing mathematics...
...Often in mathematics you discover a marvelous result, then find it's already been done. This happens all the time as a student, when you often find your supposed discoveries a mere 10 pages ahead in the textbook," Elkies said. But sometimes you get lucky. Work stemming from his Olympiad training led to his first published discovery. Apparently something of a boy-wonder, he came to Harvard for graduate school at 19, got his Ph.D. at 20, an assistant professorship at 23, and was tenured a month before his 27th birthday...
...Elkies is not the buffest guy in Cambridge. Perhaps not even in Lowell House. But is he the buffest Harvard professor ever to be published in the American Chess Journal, win the Math Olympiad and write an opera? We'll leave that as an exercise to the reader...
David E. Speyer '02, a student in Math 55,attended the Math Olympiad Program during hissummers in high school. Speyer says he finds thework manageable as long as he works hard andspends time on the homework...
...opposed to the Olympiad, the Putnam [exam]doesn't put any pressure on anybody," Oprea said