| | International Mathematical Olympiad 2001 |
 | | He pointed out that at the IMO they were competing against time and each other to solve solvable problems, and that when they pursue mathematics professionally they will need a new kind of stamina, creativity and willpower to solve the many old and new unsolved problems in mathematics. |
 | | She urged the mathematical community and the media to play a part in achieving these goals: "All of us are ambassadors for mathematics." Then the world's present and future ambassadors of mathematics--the teens from the first-place Chinese and second-place Russian and U.S. teams--were introduced and their photographs were taken. |
 | | Major sponsors of the International Mathematical Olympiad 2001 were the Akamai Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, Wolfram Research, Texas Instruments, and the National Security Agency. |
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