Word: olympiads
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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...