Comment Comment by mauriziocalo Related — these videos give a sense of how someone might actually go about thinking through and solving these kinds of problems:- A 3Blue1Brown video on a particularly nice and unexpectedly difficult IMO problem (2011 IMO, Q2): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M64HUIJFTZM-- And another similar one (though technically Putnam, not IMO): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkmNXy7er84- Timothy Gowers (Fields Medalist and IMO perfect scorer) solving this year’s IMO problems in “real time”:-- Q1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G1nySyVs2w-- Q4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-vp4zGzwIs parent mauriziocalo 1 year ago
- A 3Blue1Brown video on a particularly nice and unexpectedly difficult IMO problem (2011 IMO, Q2): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M64HUIJFTZM
-- And another similar one (though technically Putnam, not IMO): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkmNXy7er84
- Timothy Gowers (Fields Medalist and IMO perfect scorer) solving this year’s IMO problems in “real time”:
-- Q1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G1nySyVs2w
-- Q4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-vp4zGzwIs