👋 Some of the stages of the Math Olympiad program 2024 --- 2025 are

• Please visit this webpage for the updates and further details.

• Further details on IOQM will be published in the month of June 2024 on the webpage of Mathematics Teachers’ Association.

• A few problems from IOQM 2023 have been discussed here.

👋 Please go through the homepage https://jpsaha.github.io/MOTP/, to know

• What is the purpose/goal of (making) this website?
• How the material available here can be used?
• The sitemap, that is, the layout of the entire webpage.

References

• Mathematical circles (Russian experience) by Fomin, Genkin, Itenberg.
• Challenge and Thrill of Pre-College Mathematics by V. Krishnamurthy, C.R. Pranesachar, K.N. Ranganathan, B.J. Venkatachala
• A Beautiful Journey Through Olympiad Geometry by Stefan Lozanovski
• Euclidean Geometry in Mathematical Olympiads (EGMO) by Evan Chen. The Automatically Generated EGMO Solutions Treasury contains updated solutions to a significant number of the sourced problems.
• OTIS Excerpts by Evan Chen for non-geometry.
• Olympiad Combinatorics, by Pranav A. Sriram, is an intermediate-advanced textbook. Its chapters are available in posts #1, #11, #49 of here. There is a forum for solutions of the problems which are not in the contest collections but from this book.
• Olympiad NT through Challenging Problems, by Justin Stevens, is an introductory olympiad text on number theory.
• Modern Olympiad Number Theory, by Aditya Khurmi, is olympiad-oriented.
• Problems from the Book by Titu Andreescu and Gabriel Dospinescu. Intermediate-advanced textbook covering topics in inequalities, algebra, analysis, combinatorics, and number theory.
• Recommendations from Evan Chen for handouts, books.
• Handouts and book recommendations by Yufei Zhao.

Problems and Solutions

• Rustam Turdibaev and Olimjon Olimov compiled a 336-problem index of recent problems by subject and MOHS rating (devised by Evan Chen).
• Olympiad Problems and Solutions by Evan Chen.
• Recommendations from Evan Chen for contests.
• IMO Problems and Solutions at AoPS.
• IMO Shortlisted Problems.
• The IMO compendium by Djukić, Janković, Matić, Petrović.
• Contest collections at AoPS.

AoPS

• On Art of Problem-Solving, there is an archive of problems from basically every Math Contest, together with community-contributed solutions.

Additional resources/links

An Olympiad Math Blog maintained by Sunaina Pati, participated in EGMO in 2023 (S).

• A post discussing How to prepare for RMO
• An older post on OMC discussing How to start with Math olympiads
  • To quote from this post:

    Sophie Fellowship is the gem! It provides such a nice community and so many resources!

    Do join OTIS! It is simply so good. Evan is also very kind with financial aid. Moreover, do not be scared of applying! And if there is some financial burden, do tell to Evan.

• Another post discussing How to write a nice solution

Royan Goyal maintains a blog. He participated in IMO 2021 (B).

• Recommendations from him.

Evan Chen is a graduate student at MIT and a math olympiad coach. He received a Gold medal in IMO 2014. There are a lot of useful material available on his webpage and blog.

Some of post from his webpage are

• FAQs about math contests and particularly how to go about training for them.
• Olympiad Articles
  • For beginners
  • For coaches
  • Olympiad Problems and Solutions
• Recommended Readings (includes handouts by Evan Chen, Yufei Zhao, Po-Shen Loh, Alex Remorov, and books, and a list of contests)

The OTIS program

• He runs the Olympiad Training for Individual Study (OTIS), a proof-based olympiad training program, with over 300 students per year from across the world. Some of its alums are
  • Anant Mudgal, participated in IMO in 2015 (HM), 2016 (B), 2017 (B), 2018 (S), and in APMO in 2016 (B), 2017 (S),
  • Pranjal Srivastava, participated in IMO in 2018 (S), 2019 (G), 2021 (G), 2022 (G), and in APMO in 2018 (HM), 2019 (G), 2022 (G),
  • Atul Shatavart Nadig, participated in IMO in 2022 (B), 2023 (G), and in APMO in 2022 (S), 2023 (G),
  • Anushka Aggarwal, participated in EGMO in 2019 (B), 2020 (B), 2022 (B).
• He runs a Twitch stream, where he primarily live-solves math problems.
  • The past broadcasts are on YouTube.
• He also maintains a Discord server.

Some of the posts from his blog Power Overwhelming

• Writing Olympiad Geometry
• Some Advice for Olympiad Geometry
• Against the “Research vs. Olympiads” Mantra
• Stop Paying Me Per Hour
• Lessons from math olympiads
• A few shockingly linear graphs
  • A working paper by economists Ruchir Agarwal and Patrick Gaulé.
• Math contest platitudes, v3
  • What leads to success at math contests?
  • Stop looking for the “right” training
• An opening speech for MOP
• IMO 2019 Aftermath
• MOHS hardness scale
• USEMO Problem Development, Behind the Scenes
• Everything I need is on the ground
• MOHS was a mistake
• January newsflash
• Against exploitable rubrics

Mathematical Reflections

Some links

• The legendary IMO 1988 P6
• A post by Terence Tao related to IMO 2009 P6
• A post by Timothy Gowers related to IMO 2009 P6
• Contest problems with connections to deeper mathematics
• Po-Shen Loh has been the national coach of the USA International Mathematical Olympiad team from 2013–2023
  • The “Why” of Math by Po-Shen Loh, TEDxCMU
  • Po-Shen Loh interacts in this video
  • A Quanta Magazine article featuring Po-Shen Loh
  • Po-Shen Loh: Mathematics, Math Olympiad, Combinatorics & Contact Tracing — a Lex Fridman Podcast
• Writing math
  • Write down what you’ve done
  • What are some useful, but little-known, features of the tools used in professional mathematics?
  • Evan Chen on Writing

    what is the purpose of writing? It turns out that there is one, and … It’s that writing clarifies thinking.

  • Nikhil Banerjee provides advice on practice (during 15:39–16:31) for studying Indian Music.