Mediterranean Mathematics Competition

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The Mediterranean Mathematics Competition (also: Peter O'Halloran Memorial ) is a mathematics competition for schoolchildren that has been held annually since 1998. All countries bordering the Mediterranean and, upon invitation, neighboring countries are eligible to participate. The competition, known for short as "Mediterranean", is widely considered to be the toughest among student math competitions, including the IMO .

motto

The goals of the Mediterranean Competition are:

  • Discovering, nurturing, and challenging mathematically gifted students
  • Building friendly and cooperative relationships between students and teachers from different countries in the Mediterranean region
  • Creation of an opportunity for international exchange on school practices
  • Promotion of the commitment to solving mathematical Olympic problems as well as the occupation with other mathematical problems, also in the non-participating countries

regulate

The competition is held separately in each country. Each participating country can have any number of students compete, but only send in the results of the top ten according to national evaluation for the international evaluation. Each of these receives either a certificate of participation or an award, with the awards to be achieved - Gold, Silver, Bronze and Honorable Mention - being given in a similar way to the IMO . The participants must be younger than 20 years and must not have started a university degree or a comparable training.

history

The Mediterranean Competition first took place in 1998, initiated and organized to this day by the Spaniard Francisco Bellot Rosado. In the first year only three tasks had to be solved. Since the second year, however, the competition has consisted of four tasks for which there was a total of four hours.

In 2013 it happened for the first time that a statement was incorrect; an inequality to be proven was wrong.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Official rule document: http://mural.uv.es/rorunu/cmm/bases/Bases05ing.pdf
  2. ↑ http://imomath.com/index.php?options=Med&mod=23&ttn=Mediterranean