Saskatoon student wins bronze medal at International Mathematical Olympiad – Saskatoon | 24CA News
A 17-year-old Saskatoon scholar from Walter Murray Collegiate has returned from Japan, the place he captured a bronze medal on the International Mathematical Olympiad.
Over the course of two days in July, Haozhe Yang needed to resolve a sequence of six questions.
“The problems are meant to be … you shouldn’t be able to solve all of them,” Yang stated. “This year I think there were only five perfect scores out of 600 competitors.”
Yang stated the toughest downside was a geometry downside involving an equilateral triangle.
The college students had 9 hours complete to finish the questions.
Yang, alongside college students from Ottawa, Vancouver and the U.S., made up Team Canada to complete with an all-time finest results of fifth place for the nation.
The crew received one gold medal, 4 silver and Yang’s bronze.
“It was a very rewarding experience,” Yang stated. “You not only get to meet other new people, but also just learn a lot from them. The process is more than a competition, it’s a learning process.”
The competitors has been operating since 1959, with over 100 nations competing from over 5 continents.
“Math had many subfields and I really enjoy the intricate connections between the subfields,” Yang stated.
Prior to the competitors, Yang went to China for coaching.
“We actually got 13th prize in the training camp competition. We learned a lot during the training camp and it definitely improved our score a little bit,” Yang stated.
The crew travelled to Japan shortly after, the place they have been in a position to immerse themselves within the nation exterior of the competitors.
“We learned many things like Japanese culture and the language.”
Yang is headed to Harvard on his subsequent journey to review arithmetic — a course he hopes may result in a PhD.
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