Archive for the ‘Mathematics’ Category

50th IMO

July 16, 2009

This year, Jan Vonk (BEL), Peter Vandendriessche (BEL) and Hojoo Lee (KOR) submitted a geometry problem for the IMO proposals. It was submitted by The Committee of Flemish Mathematical Olympiads to The 50th IMO in Germany. And we got it :]

HERE, you can find our purely geometric proof. The proposers are TRIPLY happy because this problem together with the solution is a result of cowork of THREE persons. Yeap, we proved again that Mathematics is NOT a one man’s job!

Erdos is alive on the web

January 23, 2009

From Ars Mathematica I re-discovered a theorem that

lots of papers by Paul Erdõs [1913-1996] are downloadable from here.

The first entry of the list is his KoMaL article written in 1929.  Cool!