A call for olympiad problems (original) (raw)

In an earlier article [1], where the activities of the Problems Committee of the Australian Mathematical Olympiad Committee (AMOC) were summarised, readers were invited to donate problems for use in national, regional and international mathematics competitions. Perhaps another call for olympiad-type problems will serve as a reminder to all who have been aware of those contests and at the same time inform those who have joined our mathematical community more recently of a noble way of enhancing school mathematics for budding mathematicians. Participants in those competitions are usually senior secondary-school students, although brilliant younger students have been identified through the mathematical olympiads almost every year. The problems they have to solve are from “pre-calculus ” areas: number theory, geometry (with a strong preference for “Euclidean ” geometry), algebra, discrete mathemat-ics, inequalities, functional equations. In [1], a sample of five competition problems was...