Romanian pupils have once again obtained a remarkable result at the 65th edition of the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO in Great Britain), a gold medal, 4 silver medals and one bronze medal, thus placing Romania on 12th place at world level from 108 countries participating to the competition. The international contest took place between July 11th – 22nd 2024 in Bath, Great Britain, and reunited 600 participants.
As in the previous years of the competition, the Romanian lot was coordinated by associate professor Cătălin-Liviu Gherghe, PhD, the dean of the UB Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, and was accompanied by lecturer Mihai Chiș, PhD, teaching staff at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science from the West University in Timișoara, and by Lucian Țurea, a former international Olympian at IMO, alumnus of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Bucharest and representative of the Society of Mathematical Science in Romania (SSMR).
The winners of the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO 2024), who obtained a gold medal, 4 silver medals and one bronze medal, are: Pavel Ciurea, 9th grade pupil at the International Computer Science Highschool in Bucharest, who obtained the gold medal in the competition. Last year he successfully attended his first IMO edition, securing a gold medal.
Andrei Vila, David-Andrei Anghel and Vlad-Titus Spǎtaru, also coming from the International Computer Science Highschool in Bucharest and Andrei-Giovani Chiriță, pupil at the Tudor Vianu National Computer Science College in Bucharest, managed to obtain silver medals. Andrei Vila, who was at his first attendance, obtained the remarkable performance of solving 4 math problems perfectly, which accounts as 28 points, 29 points being the reference mark for the gold medal. David-Andrei Anghel obtained gold medals in 2022 and 2024, and a silver medal in 2021.
Aida Mitroi, a pupil at the International Computer Science Highschool in Bucharest, received a bronze medal during the UK competition.
The pupils had two days of exams, each with a duration of 4 and a half hours.
Last year, at the 64th edition of the International Mathematical Olympiad in Japan, the Romanian team accumulated 208 points, thus establishing the greatest score of the Romanian team of Olympians since 1995 hereon, when 230 points were scored.
Associate professor Cătălin-Liviu Gherghe, mentor of the best mathematicians
In the past several years, professor Cătălin Gherghe has been part of the team of mentors who coordinated the pupils with remarkable results at the International Mathematical Olympiad. Graduate of the UB Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science in 1991, he received his PhD in Mathematics in 1999 with a paper called Harmonic application in Riemannian and Hermitian varieties, under the coordination of professor Stere Ianuș, PhD.
Ever since graduating UB, he continued on the academic path, becoming a university tutor (1991), assistant (1994), lecturer (2000) and associate professor (2006).
Tenured of the Geometry class for 1st year at Bachelor level, he held seminaries on Geometry, Differential Geometry, Riemann Geometry, Harmonic Applications.
Professor Gherghe has a flourishing writing activity, being the author of several articles published in international specialty magazines, as well as for the volumes Projective geometry problems, published at Bucharest University press in 2000, and Cryptography. Codes. Algorithms, Bucharest University Press, 2005 (in collaboration with Dorin Popescu).
In an interview given to Europa Liberă România, he said that the pupils who win medals at international mathematical competitions are gifted with a native intelligence, which helps them achieve performances.
Olympians, particularly top ones, we have to admit they are different from the others, meaning that they have a native intelligence. Not everyone, not any student, no matter how hard he works, will be able to achieve the performances of an Olympian, meaning a pupil who also has something which is native. So we must start from here. If a pupil who has something native works for 10 hours and another one who, let’s say, does not possess this gift, works for the same amount of time, the difference is already present, underlines professor Gherghe.
The full academic profile of associate professor Cătălin-Liviu Gherghe, Dean of the UB Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, is available here.
The final results by counties from the International Mathematical Olympiad in Great Britain can consulted on the official website of the competition, imo-official.org. The podium for the 2024 IMO was occupied by the pupils from the teams of the United States (1st place), The republic of China (2nd place), and Corea (3rd place).
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