Two students of St Petersburg University win the International Mathematics Competition for University Students IMC-2022
Mathematicians from St Petersburg University have won the individual competition of the most prestigious International Mathematics Competition for University Students IMC-2022. Only two students of St Petersburg University out of more than 600 participants in the competition managed to solve all the proposed problems to the maximum score.
International Mathematics Competition for University Students IMC-2022
The overall winners of the competition (Grand Grand First Prize) were Ivan Gaidai-Turlov and Aleksandr Grebennikov, who took second place last year. Aleksei Lvov and Mikhail Lozhkin were also awarded the Grand First Prize with 72 points out of a possible 80.
A total of 664 students from more than 50 countries took part in the International Mathematics Competition for University Students. During the competition, participants were asked to solve eight problems relating to linear algebra, combinatorics, analysis, probability theory and number theory.
It should be noted that last year a team of mathematicians from St Petersburg University won IMC-2021. This year’s participants from St Petersburg University included Ivan Gaidai-Turlov, Aleksandr Grebennikov, Aleksei Lvov, Mikhail Lozhkin, Stanislav Krymskii, Rozalina Margalimova, Petr Mishura, Aleksei Roze, Artem Skvortsov, Denis Rakhmankin, Ivan Kalinin, and Ilia Alimov.
According to Fedor Petrov, Professor of St Petersburg University and head of the student group of the contestants, the competition brought together the strongest students of mathematics at the University, who had previously achieved high results in the St Petersburg University Petropolitan Science Research, the International Mathematics Competitions of previous years and other competitions in the field of mathematics.