Iranian Mathematics Competitions, 1973-2007

English | 2010 | ISBN: 8185931992 | 284 Pages | PDF | 4,6 MB

Preface
International mathematical competitions have gained great popularity in recent years. They provide the ?rst test for a young person's mathematical prowess, and success in these competitions often translates into gaining admittance to the best research institutions for graduate work. For this reason some colleges and even high schools have organized special classes for training mathematically talented students for these competitions. The purpose of this text is to provide a selection of mathematical problems that are not only suitable for special college level (and occasionally even at high school level) courses designed for these competitions, but can signi?cantly improve the level of mathematical sophistication of students who
are intrigued by and envision a career in mathematics in general.

I was asked by the Iranian Mathematical Society (IMS) to prepare a problem book on the basis of college level competitions in Iran. Since Iranian students have done quite well in international competitions and their success to some extent re?ects the training that they received in special courses, I decided to make the book available to a wider audience. The problems (and their solutions) that are presented in this book are from national mathematical competitions in Iran at college level from 1973 to 2007. I provided my own solutions to most of the problems and also
utilized solutions from the ?les of the IMS, which contained approximately about 40% of all the solutions.

I should point out that I have not edited the problems of the competitions and they are direct translations from Persian into English. Unfortunately, there were some typos and mistakes in the original version. The errors have been corrected and except for trivial typographical ones, the corrections are so indicated as footnotes throughout Chapter One. Some comments on the problems also appear in footnotes.
I am indebted, and hence express my deepest gratitude, to the colleagues who contributed in di?erent ways to these competitions and to this book - either as members of the Scienti?c Committee for the competitions, or proposed problems or assisted in ?nding elegant solutions. Unfortunately, some of those colleagues have left us; may they rest in peace. I am thankful to my dear friend Dr. Hossein

Hajiabolhassan who constantly encouraged me and helped me with the preparation of the book. I would like to thank Professor Alireza Jamali, Professor Ebad Mahmoodian, the outgoing President of the IMS, Dr. Rashid Zaare-Nahandi, and Messrs. M. Shokoohi and M. Abdi-Zadeh and the administrative assistants at the main o?ce of the IMS for their assistance in gaining access to the existing solution ?les of the IMS. I am grateful to Ms. Anahita Samie for drawing the ?gures for this book...
Bamdad R. Yahaghi

Download:

http://longfiles.com/dtis08chcg57/Iranian_Mathematics_Competitions-_1973-2007.pdf.html

[Fast Download] Iranian Mathematics Competitions, 1973-2007

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.