| ▲ | svat 5 days ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A fun fact surprisingly not mentioned in the article, and which I thought would be topical at this time, is that the Romanians apparently love their math olympiads so much that they recently elected as their president an International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) medalist. The current president Nicușor Dan had perfect scores at the IMO both times he participated (one of only 12 students so far with a perfect score in each of their ≥2 participations [1]). In fact at IMO 1988 he was one of only 11 students who solved the famous/notorious “Vieta jumping” problem [2], which eluded even Terence Tao (who, to be fair, was participating at only 13 years old!). The Wikipedia section of “Notable [IMO] participants” has three sections: “Mathematicians”, “Computer scientists”, and “Other”, with Dan being the sole entry in the last one. :) [3] [1]: http://imo-official.org/hall.aspx?column=perfectscores&order... [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vieta_jumping&old... [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Internati... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | ddalex 5 days ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sure, but that's not why he was elected president. Well, not directly. His Olympiad results led to him getting a doctorate at Sorbonne, which led to him speaking french, which led to impressing Macron who threw France's weight into supporting Dan. It was a power move to replace the German influence with French influence (previous praesident was ethnic German) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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