Brazilian wins a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad

RIO – São Paulo player, Pedro Lucas Lanaro Sponchiado, 17, won a gold medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad of Cluj-Napoca in Romania. With 35 points out of 42, in both races, he finished 12th overall, out of 600 participants. The Brazilian team received four more bronze medals and an honorable mention

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Bruno Brazil Meinhart, 17, and Pedro Gomes Cabral, 15, both of Fortaleza, won bronze; and Bernardo Peruzzo Trevizan, 16, and André Yuji Hisatsuga, 18, from São Paulo. Lucas Hiroshi Hanke Harada, 17, also from São Paulo, received honorable mention

BRAZIL HAD BEEN ON BRAND OF PREVIOUS EDITION

The team led by Professors Regis Prado Barbosa and Armando Barbosa Filho was 28th overall in the standings, surpbading the performance of last year 's edition, when Brazil reached 37th place, with two silver medals, one of bronze and two honorable mentions at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

The Brazilian team was chosen among the 19 million participants in the mathematics Olympiads held in the country. To compete in the international competition, students must be in high school or have completed this stage for a maximum of one year. The Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IMPA) coordinated the training of the team, with support from Step College teachers.

Academic coordinator of the Brazilian Mathematical Olympiad, Edmilson Motta reveals that Brazilian students, although coming from different schools,

– We play at the Olympic Games since the sixth year of primary school, so that the strongest students meet on these occasions and, for that reason, they have lived together from a very young age – he says. – The growth of these competitions has been surprising and shows how mathematics can be taught in a fun way without neglecting their importance in the economic development of the country.

This year's edition of the International Olympiad of mathematics was attended by 594 students from 107 countries. Last year, the competition reached the record mark of 623 students from 111 nations. The tournament was created in 1959 and the Brazilians began competing twenty years later. They won ten gold medals, 43 silver medals and 77 bronze medals, as well as 33 honorable mentions.

The third-stage student Pedro Sponchiado thought that he would get a good result, but he felt that it would not be enough for him. to win the gold medal. The student attributes the pleasant surprise to the conversations with the veterans of the competition. During the two-day test, he had time to exchange experiences with colleagues from other countries, such as Holland, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand [19659009] The student ensures that the integration of the world's elite of mathematics does not guarantee it. a different treatment among his clbadmates.

– It's normal. But nobody asks for glue, which I do not give – it's fun. "I have colleagues who participate in Olympic Games of other disciplines." Sometimes I have doubts, so I ask them.

According to the regulations, Pedro still has the right to participate again at the Olympic Games

The current winner of the Fields Medal, considered the Nobel of Mathematics, is the Brazilian Artur Avila, gold medalist at the International Olympiad in 1995. Pedro, however, does not know it will follow the same path.

– I think the medal is more for those who want to do research in mathematics, I think to pursue a career in computer science.

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