I would say talent imposes an obligation on its owner, a duty not to waste the talent.
With talent, it still takes work, hard work, to succeed. Does it mean they will succeed in mathematics? As the great Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal put it in 1922, Talent is not performance arms and legs are no dance. Therefore, those who even sometimes have done well in Olympiads, undoubtedly have talent. And it is an attempt to recognize best young mathematicians-and to not limit recognition of young talents to footballers alone.ĭo Olympiads predict who will go far in mathematics and who will not? There is no way to do well by accident, by luck, in an Olympiad, which is an essay-type competition, requiring presentation of complete solutions. It is also my ‘thank you’ to the United States and the State of Colorado, which enabled me to live my version of an American dream. Every Olympiad is a contribution to the longevity of the profession, to passing the mathematical baton. Someone created mathematical Olympiads for me it is now my turn to create Olympiads for the next generations. There are several reasons for creating Olympiads. By nature of the genre, I will be much more concise here. I have often been asked: what are Mathematical Olympiads for? I gave complete answers in my three books dedicated to the history of the Olympiad, its problems and solutions, and further explorations (Soifer, 1994, 2011, 2017). Our problems require practically no knowledge-they reward ingenuity, creativity, and originality of thinking of our young Olympians. Consequenctly, Russian and other national Olympiads, and the International Olympiad, expect and test much of the relevant knowledge. We offer the same 5 problems and 4 h to solve them to everyone who comes, usually students of grades 6 through 12. Russian Olympiads offered separate Olympiads for each school grade. However, there is one fundamental distinction.
In the reference list, you will find many fine problem books of Moscow, Russian, and Soviet Union Mathematical Olympiads (Agahanov et al., 2007 Fedorov et al., 2006 Gal’perin & Tolpygo, 1986 Leman, 1965 Shklarsky et al., 1994 Tolpygo, 2010 Vasiliev & Egorov, 1988). I created the Colorado Mathematical Olympiad in the style of Olympiads in which I competed as a middle and high school student, or was a member of the Olympiad’s Jury, in the Moscow Mathematical Olympiad and Soviet Union National Mathematical Olympiads.
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