Olympiad Geometry

by rrusczyk, Oct 29, 2008, 3:01 PM

We're bringing back the Olympiad Geometry class next spring. The class will be taught by Valentin Vornicu, who has even co-authored a geometry problem that has appeared on the IMO.

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Yay! Hopefully I'll be able to afford it and actually understand most of it.

by xpmath, Oct 29, 2008, 7:45 PM

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finally something i can use my aops gift cards on

by SplashD, Oct 30, 2008, 3:03 AM

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OMG, I wonder if I can scare people away from this class

by Valentin Vornicu, Oct 30, 2008, 7:35 AM

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How comes you do not have Olympiad-level classes for combinatorics, number theory or algebra? Geometry stuff also seems to be heavily covered in the WOOT classes. Is that focus only a mere tradition as the course was previously taught by Richard?

by orl, Oct 30, 2008, 9:36 PM

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AT LAST!!! by the way, will this finish before the AIME and the USAMO? can you make it start earlier so everything is covered for the USAMO or AIME?

by Smartguy, Oct 30, 2008, 10:28 PM

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It will be helpful for very hard AIME problems, and USAMO problems. It is a very challenging course.

by rrusczyk, Oct 31, 2008, 1:30 AM

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Olympiad combo/nt classes please?

by not_trig, Nov 4, 2008, 5:33 PM

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As for why geometry and not the other subjects, I think that the difference between the geometry needed for the USAMO and the geometry taught in standard high school curricula is greater than the differences for other subjects. Personally, before being exposed to MOP and olympiad-level material in general, I could solve some USAMO 2/5's if the topic wasn't geometry. The first MOP I went to I couldn't solve any of the geometry homework. Of course, this assumes that I had a standard high school math curriculum, but I hope I'm at least representative of some people.

by SamE, Dec 12, 2008, 11:43 PM