Archive for the ‘International Mathematical Olympiad’ tag
Tokyo, Part 3
Tokyo, Part 2
The second part of yesterday’s re-run.
Tokyo, Part 1
Due to unforseen circumstances I’m going to be offline and away from the world for the next few days… to keep up the pretence of daily blogging, a glorious re-run from an earlier post on Every Day is Election Day on my time as an international mathlete. Normal service will resume soon – thanks for reading.
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Not so long ago, Alexia wrote a post about the places she’d most like to go to on holiday, and one of the places she listed was Electric Town in Japan. It didn’t take long to get me thinking that the fact I’ve been to Japan – and indeed to Electric Town – must be something worth blogging about. It being the Olympic time of year, too, it seems appropriate that I share some memories of a different type of Olympics.
Now, I’m not a physically big guy. I don’t have a huge amount of strength, or physical stamina, and aside from once having spun a yo-yo 5,500 times in succession on a bored Sunday, I do not have much physical skill to speak of.
But, believe it or not, I’ve been an Olympian in my time; not trading on the strength of my body or the agility of my muscles, but of calculating radians and solving for x.
I am an Olympian of a different kind, and this is my story.