Raúl Chávez Sarmiento

Raúl Chávez Sarmiento
Born (1997-10-24) 24 October 1997 (age 27)
Peru
Known forSecond youngest bronze medalist in IMO history

Raúl Arturo Chávez Sarmiento (born 24 October 1997) is a Peruvian child prodigy in mathematics. At the age of 11 years, 271 days, 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 a bronze medal in 1986 at the age of 10.[1]

He then won a silver medal at the 2010 IMO, a gold medal (6th ranked overall) at the 2011 IMO, and a silver medal again at the 2012 IMO.[2]

Chávez Sarmiento received his Ph.D. in 2024 from Harvard University with the thesis The Hilbert-Chow algebra of a proper surface and Grojnowski calculus.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Peru won four silver and two bronze medals in International Math Olympiad". Living in Peru. July 22, 2009. Archived from the original on July 23, 2009.
  2. ^ "International Mathematical Olympiad". www.imo-official.org.
  3. ^ "Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard". www.dash.harvard.edu.


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