Solving the 2006 IMO Problems: Day 1

The 2006 US IMO team members describe the steps they took to solve problems 1-3 of the International Mathematical Olympiad.

Hard Problems is a feature documentary about the extraordinarily gifted students who represented the United States in 2006 at the world's toughest math competition—the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO).
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[Abdullah2009]

GROSS INEQUALITY:D

[KatiushaVN4]

@nuketothesky

Stop crying about that stupid IQ already. No-one gives a damn about it. If you post Wikipedia as cited source in you paper in university, I guarantee that you shall get an "F" for your essay. Stupid ass

[MrEagleFalcon]

@lisinka3: That is what he is doing because he says you have to show that y=x so doing that you would have a=b-x and c=b+x

[Dks739]

pee on the circle!!! keep pressing 3

[oildon]

Mr. Feng is my Math teacher at PEA!

[lisinka3]

@lisinka3 Nevermind, just noticed that the arithmetic progression equality was something he was trying to prove.

[lisinka3]

I got a question. At 5:50 Zach is explaining that you can use a substitution. a = b-x and c=b+y; But if a,b,c are in arithmetic progression, wouldn't it be a=b-x and c=b+x?

[NinjaXSong]

@openuniverse2003: I'm curious to know how you live your daily life, and what job you have right now (if you even have one)

[openuniverse2003]

@rinwhr Not "lol", son, but "LULZ"!

[openuniverse2003]

@hoodloom22 Newton died a virgin, and Gauss was WEIRD. People who are THAT smart should at leaast be able to get a hooker, no?

[zadeh79]

@zadeh79 A good example of a math test which progresses towards problems of extremely high properties of abstraction, and is a better measure of fluid intelligence for those with a math background, would be SIGMA test. It is free to take online, and has no general time limit (I'd say to give yourself a couple days). The SIGMA undoubtedly requires a fair amount of crystallized intelligence, but the fluid properties increase as you go through the test.