GOOD SOLID AMERICANS

The United States team beat China in Math Olympiad held in 2019, in England. Which was unusual, because one doesn't often think of Yankees as being particularly gifted in that field. And I should mention that my exposure to American high school graduates leaves me quite unimpressed in that regard. I myself learned math in the Netherlands, where math has slid downhill also since their golden age, which was sometime during the late sixties, I think.

From Carnegie Mellon University:

The 2019 U.S. International Mathematical Olympiad team members: Edward Wan, Daniel Zhu, Brandon Wang, Colin Shanmo Tang, Luke Robitaille and Vincent Huang. Credit: Mathematical Association of America.

SOURCE: Carnegie Mellon University -- NEWS

The team was headed by associate professor of mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University Po-Shen Loh, and deputy leader Yang Liu, a graduate student at Stanford University.


What's really surprising is that in the List of countries by medal count at the International Mathematical Olympiad, the United States is second, ahead of over one hundred other countries. And apparently we've hit the highest score eight times.
For comparison: China 21 times, Russia 16 times, Hungary 6, Romania 5, West Germany 2. Korea, Bulgaria, Iran, and East Germany: once each.


That means that France, Italy, Spain, the Scandinavian Countries, plus Africa, South and South East Asia, and Latin America haven't gotten close. Sorry guys, you aren't as good.


Unfortunately I didn't find out about any of this until moments ago, because the press in the United States sucks bollocks big time, and the Europeans don't feel that American achievements are ever worth mentioning.




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