UK IMO Register: Olympiad reports
International Mathematical Olympiad
Each year from 1991 onwards, the Team Leader has written a report
on that year’s IMO for general distribution. All of these are
available here (as produced by the Leaders without any subsequent
editing for content; the versions published in the UKMT Yearbooks and
elsewhere have generally been edited and cut in one way or another),
as are some reports from previous years and an unofficial report on
IMO 2007 by Dominic Yeo. I am still seeking reports from 1980 to 1984
inclusive, 1986 and 1990 inclusive to complete the collection.
Additional unofficial reports are also welcome.
- Reports from 1967 to 1974 were published in Science
Teacher. I have scanned them in and made
them available here. I have been unable to locate the copyright
holder of this periodical; if you believe you own the copyright,
please let me know.
- Reports from 1967 and 1969 were also published in The Mathematical
Gazette. I have scanned them in; by the kind
permission of the Mathematical Association, they appear here.
- 9th IMO, Cetinje, Yugoslavia,
3–12 July 1967, report and solutions by N. A. Routledge
in The Science Teacher.
- 9th IMO, Cetinje, Yugoslavia, 3–13
July 1967, report by N. A. Routledge in The Mathematical
Gazette.
- 10th IMO, Moscow, USSR, July 1968,
report by N. A. Routledge and David Monk in New Science
Teacher.
- 11th IMO, Bucharest, Romania, July
1969, report by F. R. Watson and L. Beeson in New
Science Teacher.
- 11th IMO, Bucharest, Romania, July
1969, report by F. R. Watson in The Mathematical
Gazette.
- 12th IMO, Hungary, 1970, report by
Bryan Thwaites and Margaret Hayman and solutions in Science
Teacher.
- 13th IMO, Zilina, Czechoslovakia,
July 1971, report by Frank Budden with photograph by Peter
Reynolds and solutions in Science Teacher.
- 14th IMO, Poland, July 1972,
report submitted by the Awards Committee of the Mathematical
Association in Science Teacher.
- 15th IMO, Moscow, USSR, July 1973,
report by F. J. Budden and solutions in Science
Teacher.
- 16th IMO, German Democratic
Republic, July 1974, report by David Monk in Science
Teacher.
- Reports from 1975 to 1979 were published in Mathematical
Spectrum. I have scanned them in; by the kind
permission of the Applied Probability Trust, they appear
here.
- 17th IMO, Bulgaria, 1975, report
by John Durran. (A detailed analysis by Robert Lyness of
Question 3 from 1975 appears in the Mathematical
Gazette, volume 60 (June 1976), number 412, pages
90–99.)
- 18th IMO, Lienz, Austria, July
1976, report by Colin Goldsmith.
- 19th IMO, Belgrade, Yugoslavia,
July 1977, report by Terry Heard.
- 20th IMO, Romania, 1978, report by
John Hersee.
- See also Alan
Dix’s memories of IMO 1978 (on his website).
- 21st IMO, London, United Kingdom,
1979, report by Colin Goldsmith.
- I would be interested to hear of any other published or unpublished reports on
the UK at the IMO that may have appeared relating to the IMOs of
1967 to 1990.
- The 1985, 1987, 1988 and 1989 reports were provided by the
DfES, and scanned in.
- Unofficial event, Mersch, Luxembourg, 1980; I don’t have a
report.
- Unofficial event, Mariehamn, Finland, 1980; I don’t have a
report.
- 22nd IMO, Washington D.C., U.S.A., 1981; I don’t have a
report.
- 23rd IMO, Budapest, Hungary, 1982; I don’t have a
report.
- 24th IMO, Paris, France, 1983; I don’t have a report.
- 25th IMO, Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1984; I don’t have a
report.
- 26th IMO, Joutsa, Finland, 1–11
July 1985, report by Robert Lyness and solutions.
- 27th IMO, Warsaw, Poland, 1986; I don’t have a
report.
- 28th IMO, Havana, Cuba, 5–16
July 1987, report by Robert Lyness.
- 29th IMO, Canberra, Australia,
9–21 July 1988, report by David Monk.
- 30th IMO, Braunschweig, Federal
Republic of Germany, 13–24 July 1989, report by David
Monk.
- 31st IMO, Beijing, China, 1990; I don’t have a
report.
- The 1991, 1992, 1994 and 1995 reports were provided by Tony
Gardiner, and scanned in.
- 32nd IMO, Sigtuna, Sweden,
12–23 July 1991, report by Tony Gardiner.
- 33rd IMO, Moscow, Russia,
10–21 July 1992, report by Tony Gardiner.
- The TeX source of the 1993 report here is derived from the
printed report and from the TeX source of an abridged version
provided by Adam McBride; it requires additional macro files ccplain.tex and ccdef.tex.
- 34th IMO, Instanbul, Turkey, 13–24 July
1993, report by Adam McBride (TeX
source) (DVI) (PostScript) (gzipped PostScript) (PDF).
- 35th IMO, Hong Kong,
8–20 July 1994, report by Tony Gardiner.
- 36th IMO, York (Toronto), Canada,
13–25 July 1995, report by Tony Gardiner.
- The TeX sources of the 1996 and 1997 reports and the Word source
of the 1998 report were provided by Adam McBride. The TeX sources
of the 1996 and 1997 reports require additional macro files ccplain.tex and ccdef.tex.
- 37th IMO, Bombay, India, 5–17 July
1996, report by Adam McBride (TeX
source) (DVI) (PostScript) (gzipped PostScript) (PDF).
- 38th IMO, Mar del Plata, Argentina,
18–31 July 1997, report by Adam McBride (TeX source) (DVI) (PostScript) (gzipped PostScript) (PDF).
- 39th IMO, Taipei, Taiwan, 10–21 July
1998, report by Adam McBride (MS
Word source) (PostScript) (gzipped PostScript) (PDF).
- The TeX sources of the 1999, 2000 and 2001 reports were provided by
Imre Leader. I did the conversions to HTML.
- 40th IMO, Bucharest, Romania, 10–22
July 1999, report by Imre Leader (TeX source) (DVI) (PostScript) (gzipped PostScript) (PDF).
- 41st IMO, Taejon, South Korea, 13–25
July 2000, report by Imre Leader (TeX source) (DVI) (PostScript) (gzipped PostScript) (PDF).
- 42nd IMO, Washington D.C., U.S.A., 1–14
July 2001, report by Imre Leader (TeX source) (DVI) (PostScript) (gzipped PostScript) (PDF).
- The Word source of the 2002 report and the LaTeX sources of the
2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 reports were provided by Geoff
Smith. I did the conversions to HTML.
- 43rd IMO, Glasgow, United Kingdom,
19–30 July 2002, report by Geoff Smith (MS Word source) (PostScript) (gzipped PostScript) (PDF).
- 44th IMO, Tokyo, Japan, 7–19
July 2003, report by Geoff Smith (LaTeX source) (DVI) (PostScript) (gzipped PostScript) (PDF).
- 45th IMO, Athens, Greece, 6–18
July 2004, report by Geoff Smith (LaTeX source) (DVI) (PostScript) (gzipped PostScript) (PDF).
- 46th IMO, Mérida, Mexico, 8–19
July 2005, report by Geoff Smith (LaTeX source) (DVI) (PostScript) (gzipped PostScript) (PDF).
- 47th IMO, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 6–18
July 2006, report by Geoff Smith (LaTeX source) (DVI) (PostScript) (gzipped PostScript) (PDF).
- A documentary about the UK preparation for and participation in
IMO 2006, Beautiful Young Minds, was
broadcast on BBC2 at 9pm on Sunday 14 October 2007; see further
information on Plus.
- 48th IMO, Hanoi, Vietnam, 19–31
July 2007, report by Geoff Smith (LaTeX source) (DVI) (PostScript) (gzipped PostScript) (PDF).
- 48th IMO, Hanoi, Vietnam,
19–31 July 2007, unofficial report by Dominic Yeo.
Balkan Mathematical Olympiad
The UK has competed in the Balkan Mathematical Olympiad from 2005
onwards; reports for 2005 and 2007 are available here.
- The Word source of the 2005 and 2007 reports was provided by
Robin Bhattacharyya. I did the conversion to HTML.
- 22nd Balkan MO, Iași,
Romania, 4–10 May 2005, report by Robin Bhattacharyya
(MS Word source) (PostScript) (gzipped PostScript) (PDF).
- 23rd Balkan MO, Agros, Cyprus, 27 April–3 May 2006; I
don’t have a report.
- 24th Balkan MO, Rhodes,
Greece, 26 April–2 May 2007, report by Robin
Bhattacharyya (MS Word
source) (PostScript) (gzipped PostScript) (PDF).
- An unofficial report on the 2007 Balkan MO by Tom Lovering and
Dominic Yeo is available from the Balkan MO
2007 Facebook group (for registered users only).
Romanian Master in Mathematics
The UK competed in the Romanian Master in Mathematics in 2008; a
report is available here.
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Last updated:
22 February 2008