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The Bangladesh team at the 2009 IMO Serbia's team for the 2010 IMO Zhuo Qun (Alex) Song (Canadian), the most highly decorated IMO contestant with 5 golds and 1 bronze medal Maryam Mirzakhani (Iran), the first woman to be honored with a Fields Medal, won 2 gold medals in 1994 and 1995, getting a perfect score in the second year.
The Fields Medal is regarded as one of the highest honors a mathematician can receive, and has been described as the Nobel Prize of Mathematics, [2] [3] [4] although there are several major differences, including frequency of award, number of awards, age limits, monetary value, and award criteria. [5]
It is the first unique prime, such that the period length value of 1 of the decimal expansion of its reciprocal, 0.333..., is unique. 3 is a twin prime with 5, and a cousin prime with 7, and the only known number such that ! − 1 and ! + 1 are prime, as well as the only prime number such that − 1 yields another prime number, 2.
Jordan James rushed 25 times for 121 yards and Oregon’s only TD, but the Ducks averaged 3.4 yards a carry as a team. A game like this was to be expected in the Big Ten, however. Teams have ...
The Millennium Prize Problems are seven well-known complex mathematical problems selected by the Clay Mathematics Institute in 2000. The Clay Institute has pledged a US $1 million prize for the first correct solution to each problem.
Drought conditions have gripped nearly the entire country, with only one state spared as a bone-dry autumn left most states parched. In November, Kentucky became the 49th state to cross into ...
Ohio State lost at home to a 7-5 Michigan team in an ugly mess of a game that ended in an on-field melee sparked by a flag-planting attempt. While the loss prevented them from competing in the Big ...
[5] Euclid of Alexandria, when asked by one of his students of what use was the study of geometry, asked his slave to give the student threepence, "since he must make gain of what he learns." [ 6 ] The Greek mathematician Apollonius of Perga was asked about the usefulness of some of his theorems in Book IV of Conics to which he proudly asserted ...