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The UKMT Team Maths Challenge is an annual event. One team from each participating school, comprising four pupils selected from year 8 and 9 (ages 12–14), competes in a regional round. No more than 2 pupils on a team may be from Year 9.
In 2005, UKMT changed the system and added an extra easier question meaning the median is now raised. In 2008, 23 students scored more than 40/60 [ 6 ] and around 50 got over 30/60. In addition to the British students, until 2018, there was a history of about 20 students from New Zealand being invited to take part. [ 7 ]
The British Mathematical Olympiad Subtrust (BMOS) is a section of the United Kingdom Mathematics Trust which currently runs the British Mathematical Olympiad as well as the UK Mathematical Olympiad for Girls, [1] several training camps throughout the year such as a winter camp in Hungary, an Easter camp at Trinity College, Cambridge, and other training and selection of the International ...
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Number theory also studies the natural, or whole, numbers. One of the central concepts in number theory is that of the prime number, and there are many questions about primes that appear simple but whose resolution continues to elude mathematicians. List of algebraic number theory topics; List of number theory topics
The first national mathematics competition was the National Mathematics Contest, established in 1961 by F. R. Watson. [11] This was run by the Mathematical Association from 1975 until its adoption by the United Kingdom Mathematics Trust (UKMT) in 1996 and has in recent years been known as the Senior Mathematical Challenge.
A documentary, "Hard Problems: The Road To The World's Toughest Math Contest" was made about the United States 2006 IMO team. [101] A BBC documentary titled Beautiful Young Minds aired July 2007 about the IMO. A BBC fictional film titled X+Y released in September 2014 tells the story of an autistic boy who took part in the Olympiad.
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.