Longer-term Math Contests
by rrusczyk, Apr 29, 2009, 1:43 PM
As I woke up at 2 AM last night with a pretty much fully-formed solution to one of the USAMO problems (assuming Naoki doesn't poke holes in it for me), it occurred to me that it would be cool to have a longer-term high-stakes math contest that would give an advantage to people who are willing to really throw themselves at problems over an extended period of time. The cheating issue would be impossible to manage, of course, and to some degree these things exist in the research contests (though those give a huge advantage to people with connections to universities).
Then, I realized that there is such a contest: life.
Then, I realized that there is such a contest: life.
, but I don't think my professor will be, because the purpose of the exercise was to find the answer to a problem, and, well, I haven't 
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