List of International Mathematical Olympiad participants
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The International Mathematical Olympiad
International Mathematical Olympiad
The International Mathematical Olympiad is an annual six-problem, 42-point mathematical olympiad for pre-collegiate students and is the oldest of the International Science Olympiads. The first IMO was held in Romania in 1959. It has since been held annually, except in 1980...

 (IMO)
is an annual international high school
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 mathematics competition focused primarily on pre-collegiate
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 mathematics
Mathematics
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, and is the oldest of the international science olympiad
International Science Olympiad
The International Science Olympiads are a group of worldwide annual competitions in various areas of science. The competitions are designed for the 4-6 best high school students from each participating country selected through internal National Science Olympiads, with the exception of the IOL,...

s. The awards for exceptional performance include medals for roughly the top half participants, and honorable mentions for participants who solve at least one problem perfectly.

This is a list of participants whom have achieved notability. This includes participants that went on to become notable mathematician
Mathematician
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s, participants who won medals at an exceptionally young age, or participants who scored highly.

Exceptionally young participants

Bronze medal
  • Terence Tao
    Terence Tao
    Terence Chi-Shen Tao FRS is an Australian mathematician working primarily on harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, combinatorics, analytic number theory and representation theory...

     (Australia), in 1986 at age
  • Raúl Chávez Sarmiento
    Raúl Chávez Sarmiento
    Raúl Arturo Chávez Sarmiento is a Peruvian child prodigy in mathematics. At the age of , he won a bronze medal at the 2009 International Mathematical Olympiad, making him the second youngest medalist in IMO history, behind Terence Tao who won bronze in 1986 at the age of 10.He won a silver medal...

     (Peru), in 2009 at age
  • Akshay Venkatesh
    Akshay Venkatesh
    Akshay Venkatesh is an Indian Australian mathematician. His research interests are in the fields of counting, equidistribution problems in automorphic forms and number theory, in particular representation theory, locally symmetric spaces and ergodic theory...

     (Australia), in 1994 at age


Silver medal
  • Terence Tao
    Terence Tao
    Terence Chi-Shen Tao FRS is an Australian mathematician working primarily on harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, combinatorics, analytic number theory and representation theory...

     (Australia), in 1987 at age
  • Raúl Chávez Sarmiento
    Raúl Chávez Sarmiento
    Raúl Arturo Chávez Sarmiento is a Peruvian child prodigy in mathematics. At the age of , he won a bronze medal at the 2009 International Mathematical Olympiad, making him the second youngest medalist in IMO history, behind Terence Tao who won bronze in 1986 at the age of 10.He won a silver medal...

     (Peru), in 2010 at age
  • Lee Su-hong (South Korea), in 2007 at age 13 years, 10 months

Gold medal
  • Terence Tao
    Terence Tao
    Terence Chi-Shen Tao FRS is an Australian mathematician working primarily on harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, combinatorics, analytic number theory and representation theory...

     (Australia), in 1988 at age
  • Raúl Chávez Sarmiento
    Raúl Chávez Sarmiento
    Raúl Arturo Chávez Sarmiento is a Peruvian child prodigy in mathematics. At the age of , he won a bronze medal at the 2009 International Mathematical Olympiad, making him the second youngest medalist in IMO history, behind Terence Tao who won bronze in 1986 at the age of 10.He won a silver medal...

     (Peru), in 2011 at age
  • Ömer Cerrahoğlu
    Ömer Cerrahoğlu
    Ömer Cerrahoğlu is a Romanian child prodigy in mathematics. At the age of , he won a gold medal at the 2009 International Mathematical Olympiad, making him the third youngest gold medalist in IMO history, behind Terence Tao and Raúl Chávez Sarmiento...

     (Romania), in 2009 at age
  • Lee Su-hong (South Korea), in 2008 at age 14 years, 10 months
  • Tiankai Liu (USA), in 2001 at age 14
  • Zhuo Qun (Alex) Song (Canada), in 2011 at age 14
  • Bruce Merry (South Africa), in 1997 at age 15


Perfect score
  • Noam Elkies
    Noam Elkies
    Noam David Elkies is an American mathematician and chess master.At age 14, Elkies received a gold medal with a perfect score at the International Mathematical Olympiad, the youngest ever to do so...

     (USA), in 1981 at age
  • Sergei Konyagin
    Sergei Konyagin
    Sergei Vladimirovich Konyagin is a Russian mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the Moscow State University....

     (Soviet Union), in 1972 at age
  • Vladimir Drinfel'd
    Vladimir Drinfel'd
    Vladimir Gershonovich Drinfel'd is a Ukrainian and Soviet mathematician at the University of Chicago.The work of Drinfeld related algebraic geometry over finite fields with number theory, especially the theory of automorphic forms, through the notions of elliptic module and the theory of the...

     (Soviet Union), in 1969 at age
  • Aleksandr Khazanov
    Aleksandr Khazanov
    Aleksandr Leonidovich Khazanov was a Russian American mathematician. A child prodigy, he wrote a perfect paper at the International Mathematical Olympiad 1994, one of the youngest ever to do so. Khazanov was reported missing on June 17, 2001...

     (USA), in 1994, at age 15½ years
  • Stanislav Smirnov
    Stanislav Smirnov
    Stanislav Konstantinovich Smirnov is a Russian mathematician currently working at the University of Geneva, who was awarded the Fields Medal in 2010. His research focuses on the fields of complex analysis, dynamical systems and probability theory.-Career:...

     (Soviet Union), in 1986 at age

High-scoring participants

The following table lists all IMO Winners who have won at least three gold medals, with corresponding years and non-gold medals received noted (S denotes a silver medal, B denotes a bronze medal and P denotes a perfect score.)
Name Team(s) Years
Lisa Sauermann
Lisa Sauermann
Lisa Sauermann is a German schoolgirl who became the most successful participant in the International Mathematical Olympiad. She is ranked No.1 in the International Mathematical Olympiad Hall of Fame, having won four gold medals and one silver medal at this event. In all of those occasions she...

Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

2007 S 2008 2009 2010 2011 P
Christian Reiher
Christian Reiher
Christian Reiher is a German mathematician. He is the second most successful participant in the history of the International Mathematical Olympiad, having won four gold medals in the years 2000 to 2003 and a bronze medal in 1999.Just after finishing his Abitur, he proved Kemnitz's conjecture, an...

Germany 1999 B 2000 2001 2002 2003
Reid W. Barton
Reid W. Barton
Reid W. Barton was one of the most successful performers in the International Science Olympiads. He is an MIT alumnus.- Biography:Barton is the son of two environmental engineers...

United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

1998 1999 2000 2001 P
Wolfgang Burmeister East Germany
German Democratic Republic
The German Democratic Republic , informally called East Germany by West Germany and other countries, was a socialist state established in 1949 in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany, including East Berlin of the Allied-occupied capital city...

1967 S 1968 1969 S 1970 P 1971
Iurie Boreico Moldova
Moldova
Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked state in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the West and Ukraine to the North, East and South. It declared itself an independent state with the same boundaries as the preceding Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1991, as part...

2003 S 2004 2005 P 2006 P 2007 S
Martin Härterich West Germany
West Germany
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1985 B 1986 1987 P 1988 S 1989
Teodor von Burg Serbia 2007 B 2008 S 2009 2010 2011
László Lovász
László Lovász
László Lovász is a Hungarian mathematician, best known for his work in combinatorics, for which he was awarded the Wolf Prize and the Knuth Prize in 1999, and the Kyoto Prize in 2010....

Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

1963 S 1964 1965 1966
József Pelikán Hungary 1963 S 1964 1965 1966
Nikolay Nikolov
Nikolay Nikolov (mathematician)
Nikolay Nikolov is a Bulgarian mathematician working in abstract algebra and currently a Reader at Imperial College London.He obtained his PhD in 2002 under the supervision of Dan Segal.In 2007, he was awarded the LMS Whitehead Prize....

Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

1992 1993 1994 S 1995 P
Kentaro Nagao Japan
Japan
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1997 S 1998 1999 2000
Vladimir Barzov Bulgaria 1999 S 2000 2001 2002
Peter Scholze Germany 2004 S 2005 P 2006 2007
Makoto Soejima Japan 2005 B 2007 2008 2009 P
Simon Norton United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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1967 1968 1969 P
John Rickard United Kingdom 1975 P 1976 1977 P
Sergey Ivanov Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

1987 P 1988 1989 P
Theodor Banica Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

1989 1990 1991
Evgenia Malinnikova Soviet Union 1989 1990 P 1991 P
Sergey Norin Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

1994 P 1995 P 1996
Yuliy Sannikov Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

1994 P 1995 1996
Ciprian Manolescu
Ciprian Manolescu
Ciprian Manolescu is a Romanian mathematician. He is presently an Associate Professor in the mathematics department at the University of California, Los Angeles....

Romania 1995 P 1996 P 1997 P
Ivan Ivanov Bulgaria 1996 1997 1998
Nikolai Dourov Russia 1996 1997 1998
Tamás Terpai Hungary 1997 1998 1999
Stefan Hornet Romania 1997 1998 1999
Vladimir Dremov Russia 1998 1999 2000
Mihai Manea Romania 1999 2000 2001
Tiankai Liu United States 2001 2002 2004
Oleg Golberg Russia ('02, '03)
United States ('04)
2002 2003 2004
Béla András Rácz Hungary 2002 2003 2004 P
Andrey Badzyan Russia 2002 2003 2004 P
Rosen Kralev Bulgaria 2003 2004 2005 P
Przemysław Mazur Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

2006 2007 2008
Tak Wing Ching Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

2009 2010 2011

Notable participants

A number of IMO medalists have gone on to become notable mathematician
Mathematician
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s. The following IMO medalists have received a Fields Medal
Fields Medal
The Fields Medal, officially known as International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics, is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union , a meeting that takes place every four...

, a Wolf Prize
Wolf Prize in Mathematics
The Wolf Prize in Mathematics is awarded almost annually by the Wolf Foundation in Israel. It is one of the six Wolf Prizes established by the Foundation and awarded since 1978; the others are in Agriculture, Chemistry, Medicine, Physics and Arts...

 or a Clay Research Award
Clay Research Award
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, awards which recognise groundbreaking research in mathematics; a European Mathematical Society Prize
European Mathematical Society
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, an award which recognizes young researchers; or one of the American Mathematical Society
American Mathematical Society
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's awards (a Bôcher Prize in Analysis, Cole Prize in Algebra
Cole Prize
The Frank Nelson Cole Prize, or Cole Prize for short, is one of two prizes awarded to mathematicians by the American Mathematical Society, one for an outstanding contribution to algebra, and the other for an outstanding contribution to number theory. The prize is named after Frank Nelson Cole, who...

, Cole Prize in Number Theory
Cole Prize
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 or Veblen Prize in Geometry and Topology) recognizing research in specific mathematical fields.

G denotes an IMO gold medal, S denotes a silver medal, B denotes a bronze medal, and P denotes a perfect paper.
 Name   Team   IMO   Fields Medal
Fields Medal
The Fields Medal, officially known as International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics, is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union , a meeting that takes place every four...

 
 Wolf Prize
Wolf Prize in Mathematics
The Wolf Prize in Mathematics is awarded almost annually by the Wolf Foundation in Israel. It is one of the six Wolf Prizes established by the Foundation and awarded since 1978; the others are in Agriculture, Chemistry, Medicine, Physics and Arts...

 
 EMS Prize
European Mathematical Society
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 AMS research prizes   Clay Award
Clay Research Award
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 Grigory Margulis
Grigory Margulis
Gregori Aleksandrovich Margulis is a Russian mathematician known for his far-reaching work on lattices in Lie groups, and the introduction of methods from ergodic theory into diophantine approximation. He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1978 and a Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 2005, becoming the...

 
 Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 
 S 1962 
1978
2005
 George Lusztig   Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

 
 S 1962, S 1963 
1985 (Cole algebra)
 Henryk Iwaniec
Henryk Iwaniec
Henryk Iwaniec is a Polish American mathematician, and since 1987 a professor at Rutgers University. He was awarded the fourteenth Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number Theory in 2002. He received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition in 2011.-Background and education:Iwaniec studied...

 
 Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 
  1965, S 1966 
2002 (Cole number theory)
 László Lovász
László Lovász
László Lovász is a Hungarian mathematician, best known for his work in combinatorics, for which he was awarded the Wolf Prize and the Knuth Prize in 1999, and the Kyoto Prize in 2010....

 
 Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

 
 G 1966, G 1965 
 G 1964, S 1963 
1999
 Andrei Suslin
Andrei Suslin
Andrei Suslin is a Russian mathematician who has made major contributions to the field of algebra, especially algebraic K-theory and its connections with algebraic geometry. He is currently a Trustee Chair and Professor of mathematics at Northwestern University.He was born on December 27, 1950,...

 
 Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 
 G 1967 
2000 (Cole algebra)
 Vladimir Drinfel'd
Vladimir Drinfel'd
Vladimir Gershonovich Drinfel'd is a Ukrainian and Soviet mathematician at the University of Chicago.The work of Drinfeld related algebraic geometry over finite fields with number theory, especially the theory of automorphic forms, through the notions of elliptic module and the theory of the...

 
 Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 
   P 1969 
1990
 János Kollár
János Kollár
János Kollár is a Hungarian mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2005 and received the Cole Prize in 2006....

 
 Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

 
 G 1973, P 1974 
2006 (Cole algebra)
 Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz is a French mathematician. He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1994, for his work on dynamical systems.-Biography:...

 
 France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 
 S 1973, P 1974 
1994
 Paul Vojta
Paul Vojta
Paul Alan Vojta is an American mathematician, known for his work in number theory on diophantine geometry and diophantine approximation....

 
 United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 
 P 1975 
1992 (Cole number theory)
 Alexander Goncharov
Alexander Goncharov
Alexander B. Goncharov is a Russian American mathematician and professor at Yale University. He won the EMS Prize in 1992....

 
 Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 
  G 1976 
1992
 Richard Borcherds
Richard Borcherds
Richard Ewen Borcherds is a British mathematician specializing in lattices, number theory, group theory, and infinite-dimensional algebras. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1998.- Personal life :...

 
 United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 
 G 1978, S 1977 
1998
1992
 Timothy Gowers   United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 
 P 1981 
1998
1996
 Peter Kronheimer   United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 
 S 1981 
2007 (Veblen)
 Gábor Tardos
Gábor Tardos
Gábor Tardos is a Hungarian mathematician, currently a professor and Canada Research Chair at Simon Fraser University. He works mainly in combinatorics and computer science...

 
 Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

 
  S 1982, S 1981, 1979 
1992
 Grigori Perelman
Grigori Perelman
Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman is a Russian mathematician who has made landmark contributions to Riemannian geometry and geometric topology.In 1992, Perelman proved the soul conjecture. In 2002, he proved Thurston's geometrization conjecture...

 
 Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 
   P 1982 
   2006
1996
 Alexis Bonnet
Alexis Bonnet
Alexis Bonnet is a French mathematician and investor. For his research on partial differential equations he was awarded the 1996 EMS Prize. He earned his doctorate from Pierre and Marie Curie University in 1992, under supervision of Henri Berestycki....

 
 France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 
 S 1984, S 1983 
1996
 Laurent Lafforgue
Laurent Lafforgue
Laurent Lafforgue is a French mathematician.He won 2 silver medals at International Mathematical Olympiad in 1984 and 1985....

 
 France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 
 S 1985, S 1984 
2002
2000
 Daniel Tătaru
Daniel Tătaru
Daniel Ioan Tătaru is a Romanian mathematician at University of California, Berkeley. He won the 2002 Bôcher Memorial Prize for his research on partial differential equations....

 
 Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

 
 P 1985, P 1984 
2002 (Bôcher)
 Zoltán Szabó
Zoltán Szabó
Zoltán Szabó is a professor of mathematics at Princeton University. He created, along with Peter Ozsváth, Heegaard Floer homology, a homology theory for 3-manifolds. For this contribution to the field of topology, Ozsváth and Szabó were awarded the 2007 Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry.He got his...

 
 Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

 
 S 1985 
2007 (Veblen)
 Ricardo Pérez-Marco
Ricardo Pérez-Marco
Ricardo Pérez-Marco is a Spanish-French mathematician at the University of California, Los Angeles. He won the 1996 EMS Prize for his work on dynamical systems....

 
 Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

 
 S 1986, 1985 
1996
 Dominic Joyce
Dominic Joyce
Dominic D. Joyce is a British mathematician, currently a professor at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Lincoln College since 1995. His undergraduate and doctoral studies were at Merton College. He undertook a DPhil in geometry under the supervision of Simon Donaldson, completed in 1992...

 
 United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 
 S 1986 
2000
 Stanislav Smirnov
Stanislav Smirnov
Stanislav Konstantinovich Smirnov is a Russian mathematician currently working at the University of Geneva, who was awarded the Fields Medal in 2010. His research focuses on the fields of complex analysis, dynamical systems and probability theory.-Career:...

 
 Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 
 P 1987, P 1986 
2010
2004
2001
 Terence Tao
Terence Tao
Terence Chi-Shen Tao FRS is an Australian mathematician working primarily on harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, combinatorics, analytic number theory and representation theory...

 
 Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 
 G 1988, S 1987, B 1986 
2006
2002 (Bôcher)
2003
 Elon Lindenstrauss
Elon Lindenstrauss
Elon Lindenstrauss is an Israeli mathematician, and a winner of the 2010 Fields Medal.Since 2004, he has been a professor at Princeton University...

 
 Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

 
 B 1988 
2010
2004
 Ngô Bảo Châu
Ngo Bao Chau
Ngô Bảo Châu is a Vietnamese and French mathematician at the University of Chicago, best known for proving the fundamental lemma for automorphic forms proposed by Robert Langlands and Diana Shelstad. He is the first Vietnamese to receive the Fields Medal.- Biography :Chau was born in 1972, the...

 
 Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

 
 P 1988, G 1989 
2010
2004
 Emmanuel Grenier
Emmanuel Grenier
Emmanuel Grenier is a French mathematician. His research interests include hydrodynamics and mathematical biology....

 
 France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 
 B 1989 
2000
 Vincent Lafforgue
Vincent Lafforgue
Vincent Lafforgue is a French mathematician. He is a "Directeur de Recherches" at the Université d'Orléans since September 1, 2010. Lafforgue was awarded the 2000 EMS Prize for his contribution to the K-theory of operator algebras: the proof of the Baum–Connes conjecture for discrete co-compact...

 
 France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 
 P 1991, P 1990 
2000
 Ben J. Green   United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 
 S 1995, S 1994 
2008
2004
 Artur Ávila
Artur Avila
Artur Ávila Cordeiro de Melo is a Brazilian mathematician working primarily on dynamical systems and spectral theory.- Research and awards :...

 
 Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

 
 G 1995 
2008
 Bo'az Klartag   Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

 
 S 1996 
2008


IMO medalists have also gone on to become notable computer scientists. The following IMO medalists have received a Nevanlinna Prize
Nevanlinna Prize
The Rolf Nevanlinna Prize is awarded once every 4 years at the International Congress of Mathematicians, for outstanding contributions in Mathematical Aspects of Information Sciences including:...

, a Knuth Prize
Knuth Prize
The Donald E. Knuth Prize is a prize for outstanding contributions to the foundations of computer science, named after Donald E. Knuth.-History:...

, or a Gödel Prize
Gödel Prize
The Gödel Prize is a prize for outstanding papers in theoretical computer science, named after Kurt Gödel and awarded jointly by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science and the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory .The...

; these awards recognise research in theoretical computer science. G denotes an IMO gold medal, S denotes a silver medal, B denotes a bronze medal, and P denotes a perfect paper.
 Name   Team   IMO   Nevanlinna Prize
Nevanlinna Prize
The Rolf Nevanlinna Prize is awarded once every 4 years at the International Congress of Mathematicians, for outstanding contributions in Mathematical Aspects of Information Sciences including:...

 
 Knuth Prize
Knuth Prize
The Donald E. Knuth Prize is a prize for outstanding contributions to the foundations of computer science, named after Donald E. Knuth.-History:...

 
 Gödel Prize
Gödel Prize
The Gödel Prize is a prize for outstanding papers in theoretical computer science, named after Kurt Gödel and awarded jointly by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science and the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory .The...

 
 László Lovász
László Lovász
László Lovász is a Hungarian mathematician, best known for his work in combinatorics, for which he was awarded the Wolf Prize and the Knuth Prize in 1999, and the Kyoto Prize in 2010....

 
 Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

 
 G 1966, G 1965 
 G 1964, S 1963 
1999
2001
 László Babai
László Babai
László Babai is a Hungarian professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on computational complexity theory, algorithms, combinatorics, and finite groups, with an emphasis on the interactions between these fields...

 
 Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

 
 G 1968, S 1967 
 B 1966 
1993
 Johan Håstad
Johan Håstad
Johan Torkel Håstad is a Swedish theoretical computer scientist most known for his work on computational complexity theory. He was the recipient of the Gödel Prize in 1994 and 2011 and the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award in 1986, among other prizes...

 
 Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 
 G 1977 
1994
 Peter Shor
Peter Shor
Peter Williston Shor is an American professor of applied mathematics at MIT, most famous for his work on quantum computation, in particular for devising Shor's algorithm, a quantum algorithm for factoring exponentially faster than the best currently-known algorithm running on a classical...

 
 United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 
 S 1977 
1998
1999
 Alexander Razborov
Alexander Razborov
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Razborov , sometimes known as Sasha Razborov, is a Soviet and Russian mathematician and computational theorist who won the Nevanlinna Prize in 1990 for introducing the "approximation method" in proving Boolean circuit lower bounds of some essential algorithmic problems, and...

 
 Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 
 G 1979 
1990
2007

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