The overseas Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is an annual foreign arithmetic festival held for pre-collegiate scholars. it's also the oldest of the foreign technological know-how olympiads, and pageant for locations is especially fierce. This publication is an amalgamation of the 1st eight of 15 booklets initially produced to lead scholars meaning to contend for placement on their country's IMO team.

The fabric contained during this booklet presents an creation to the most mathematical issues lined within the IMO, that are: Combinatorics, Geometry and quantity idea. furthermore, there's a targeted emphasis on easy methods to procedure unseen questions in arithmetic, and version the writing of proofs. complete solutions are given to all questions.

Though A First Step to Mathematical Olympiad Problems is written from the point of view of a mathematician, it's written in a manner that makes it simply understandable to young people. This booklet can be a must-read for coaches and teachers of mathematical competitions.

Contents:

  • Jugs and Stamps: easy methods to remedy Problems
  • Combinatorics I
  • Graph Theory
  • Number conception 1
  • Geometry 1
  • Proof
  • Geometry 2
  • Some IMO Problems

Readership: institution scholars willing to profit extra of arithmetic and in particular arithmetic on the topic of the IMO; coaches and teachers of mathematical competitions.

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