Nearing its 50th anniversary, the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) has firmly established itself as the most prestigious mathematical competition a high school student could aspire to participate in. The IMO represents not only a great opportunity of tackling interesting and challenging mathematical problems, it also offers a way for high school students to measure up with students from the rest of the world.
Until now it has been almost impossible to obtain a collection of the problems posed at the IMO. This volume, which has all the Olympiad problems used or short-listed for use in competitions from 1959 to 2004, will be the definitive and authoritative source for students preparing for the IMO. Schools training teams will find it indispensable, as will problem-setters and aspiring solvers all over the world. Additionally, the skill developed in successfully attacking difficult mathematical problems will be an invaluable prerequisite for a serious and prosperous career in mathematics.
Until now it has been almost impossible to obtain a collection of the problems posed at the IMO. This volume, which has all the Olympiad problems used or short-listed for use in competitions from 1959 to 2004, will be the definitive and authoritative source for students preparing for the IMO. Schools training teams will find it indispensable, as will problem-setters and aspiring solvers all over the world. Additionally, the skill developed in successfully attacking difficult mathematical problems will be an invaluable prerequisite for a serious and prosperous career in mathematics.
"The International Mathematical Olympiad, or IMO is the premier international competition for talented high school mathematics students. ... This book collects statements and solutions of all of the problems ever set in the IMO, together with many problems proposed for the contest. ... serves as a vast repository of problems at the Olympiad level, useful both to students ... and to faculty looking for hard elementary problems. No library will want to be without a copy, nor will anyone involved in mathematics competitions ... ." -(Fernando Q. Gouvêa, MathDL, March, 2006)