r/MathHelp • u/zRuhtrax • 9d ago

Can u help me????

Hi everyone, how’s it going?

I want to get into the world of math olympiads, but I’m currently in 10th. I’m Brazilian, and I need to win the Jacob Palis Competition to qualify for the OBM (Brazilian Math Olympiad) in the same year - the elite competition that leads to international events.

The Jacob Palis takes place around late May or early June, and the OBM happens in early August.

I’d really love to win a medal in both the Palis and the OBM (at least a bronze) next year.

Do you have any tips?

Suggestions?

Book recommendations?

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

I came across something awhile ago when looking at olympiad math, but it's a library of proof based questions compiled by MIT:

https://mathnet.mit.edu/

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u/Slaypara2009 8d ago

Hey, I am also Interested in Olympiads... Though I have 2yrs for that.... And I bought that One book by George Polya, 'How to Solve it'.... Ummm in the Preface by Ian, he said that, Olympian Mentors usually avoid this book as Olympians actually prepare for so early that they already have more talents than the book can even give... But if we are just starting, It's a good book... I just started reading it, and it's so good... It's about more like a guide of what we should do and when to do after we see a question... Like watching it for a long time before taking the pen and try to solve it on paper......... Also, I saw in a interview of an Olympian that, They practice so much... So much that, when they see new questions in the Olympiads, they try to understand the logic and get it to its core... And as they have practiced so much, they usually find the core logic to be already known to them.. And after that they solve it....