How to win the International Math Olympiad | Po-Shen Loh and Lex Fridman

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Po-Shen Loh is a mathematician at CMU and coach of the USA International Math Olympiad team.
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[@gabrieldasilva1560]

the fact he's having joy doing 7*6 says enough

[@thor4379]

It is because 42 is the answer to everything

[@dhruvacharya2602]

@@thor4379pj sir student :0

[@pregerzoreo4886]

Huh?​@@thor4379

[@user-oq5kc5cq5r]

@@thor4379 what do you mean?

[@robertschlesinger1342]

Very interesting, informative and worthwhile video.

[@d.a.b.2336]

You know how I know I'm stupid. I had no idea you could answer math problems in essay form. I had the basic math lol

[@angelinaquan3321]

its called proofs lmao

[@gasun1274]

high level math is all essays

[@tristanlisola3882]

High level can explain the principles and calcutale,

[@johncharles2357]

It's not really an essay per se, it's more of an argument that is written out very detailed. For example, here is an argument that explains why the sum of any two odd integers is always an even integer:
Let x and y be odd integers. Then x = 2m +1 and y = 2n + 1 for some integers m and n. So, x + y = 2m + 1 + 2n + 1 = 2(m+n+1) by the distributive property. Let r = m+n+1. Then x+y = 2r, hence x+y is even.

[@johncharles2357]

Also, it doesn't matter if you are "stupid". Anyone can study math regardless of how smart they are (or think they are). Getting "good" at math is more about perseverance rather than smartness.

[@ruutjormun2262]

ensure the examiners have *no reason* to mark you down!

[@BreezeLeg-mo4jh]

I'm sure a 4 minute video will get me into IMO >: )

[@rajeevk440]

2:03 "sometimes we go there and say we want less than what you gave us "
So that cralifies most years results of imo
Maybe rest countries are too sincere and they say this to opposition but usa ,china, russia doesn't.

[@krishnashukla9154]

Lmao 😆

[@LeNoLi.]

this guy is usa

[@roxymigurdia1]

cope

[@JohnSmith-cg3cv]

I mean usually, the more populated the country, and the better the math education is there, the better it does. USA has a lot of brilliant people, homeschooled geniuses and private schools/schools for gifted children, China is huge and their math education is very good, Russia is kinda big and has good math education, I guess. If you’re wondering why India doesn’t do so well in IMO, I think I read somewhere that there isn’t much of an incentive for the smartest Indians to compete at IMO, rather they focus on JEE and stuff like that, because that’s simply the way that their incentives are aligned in that country - I don’t know the details because I’m not Indian. But yeah hopefully I’m not in r/wooooosh right now.

[@roxymigurdia1]

@@JohnSmith-cg3cv Just not true. Indonesia doesn't do very well. Pakistan doesn't do very well. The more populated the country absolutely does not mean a better math education. What are you on about?

[@Klaus-Schwab_Dictator]

Reject women, embrace Mathematics.

[@zichenxie173]

good

[@zrsous8874]

What a weird ass comment

[@ludo-ge9fb]

what

[@basil9633]

@@ludo-ge9fb embrace the partial derivative

[@isratjahanafifa8078]

Same for women. Raject men , embrace Mathematics

[@user-hj1hy1yg8y]

Virgin beta personified