Sergei Konyagin
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Sergei Vladimirovich Konyagin (born 25 April 1957) is a Russia
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n mathematician
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. He is a professor of mathematics at the Moscow State University
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Konyagin participated in the International Mathematical Olympiad
International Mathematical Olympiad
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 for the Soviet Union
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, winning two consecutive gold medals with perfect scores in 1972 and 1973. At barely 15 years of age, he was (and still is) one of the youngest ever to achieve a perfect score at the IMO.

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