궁금해서 구글검색해봄 ㅡ.ㅡ;;;
적어도 여섯아이들의 이름은 실제와 같음을 알 수 있었다.
http://www.casact.org/pubs/actrev/aug01/olympiad.htm
Mathematical Olympiad Winners Honored
Winners of the 30th USA Mathematical Olympiad were honored during a ceremony at the National Academy of Sciences on June 4, 2001. Selected from a pool of over 300,000, these high school students received the top scores in a series of four rigorous exams, making them among the brightest young mathematicians in the world. Six students will continue on to represent the United States in the International Mathematical Olympiad at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. | |
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Posed around the Albert Einstein Memorial on the Academy grounds are: | |
이 아이들이 대부분의 수학경시대회를 휩쓸고 다녔던 것 같다. ^^
http://web.mit.edu/hmmt/www/datafiles/results/2001-2.shtml
Advanced Topics subject test에서
Reid barton이 5위, David shin이 1위로 랭크되어있다.
Reid barton이라면 4년 연속 금메달인데... 약간 덜렁대는 타입인 david shin(한국인. 신 동)보다 점수가 저렇게 낮을 수 있나..?
Tiankai liu는 다른데는 없고 geometry에 2위로 나온다. Exeter 아카데미 입학한 후고...
2000년도도 재미있는데,
http://web.mit.edu/hmmt/www/datafiles/results/2000.shtml
Reid Barton, Ian Le가 등장한다.
2001년 올림피아드에서 titu라는 사람이 책임자였던것은 맞는 것 같다. 이메일에 titu가 보인다. ^^
http://www.nctm.org/news/articles/2001-09nb_42ndimo.htm
gold와 silver수상 내역도 사실과 같다. ^^
뿐만 아니라 티앙카이 리우의 올림피아드 팀 합류전의 성과도 대부분 사실로 보인다.
Math Counts에 참가한 것도 나오고..
The winning team members were: Tiankai Liu from Harker School in San Jose, Jongmin Baek from Hyde Middle School in Cupertino, Joshua Batson from Miller Middle School in San Jose, and Vincent Chiu from Palos Verdes Intermediate School in Palos Verdes Estates.
http://mathcircle.berkeley.edu/BAMO2000Awards.html
아래쪽 grade eight below의 individual awards에 당당한 1위로 티앙카이의 이름과, 소설에서와 같이 San Jose에 위치한 학교이름이 나온다.
TianKai Liu, The Harker School, San Jose, first.
(grade 11-12에는 Oaz Nir의 이름도 보이네)
소설에서도 프로그래밍을 할 줄 알기는 하지만 소프트웨어를 다루는 엄마의 영향일 뿐이라고 겸손을 떨었다고 나오긴 하는데..
2002년에는 한국 경희대에서 치뤄진 IOI에도 참가하였던 것으로 나온다.
http://oldweb.uwp.edu/academic/mathematics/usaco/2002/ioi/report.htm
티앙카이 리우는 4위로 gold 메달을 받았다.
http://oldweb.uwp.edu/academic/mathematics/usaco/2002/ioi/newsrelease.htm
High school sophomore Tiankai Liu from Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, NH, captured a gold medal during the computer programming competition
2003년에도 IMO멤버.
http://www.exeter.edu/publications/exeter/summer_03/oncampus.html
The Exeter Olympic Team
Tony Zhang ’04 (standing, left), Tiankai Liu ’04 (center) and Matthew Tang ’03 (right) are competing with the top math students in the country to represent the United States at the International Mathematical Olympiad, to be held this month in Tokyo. Helping coach the U.S. team will be PEA math instructor Zuming Feng.When it comes to math, the Exeter bench is deep—very deep.
Three Academy students—Tiankai Liu ’04 of Saratoga, CA; Matthew Tang ’03 of Hong Kong; and Tony Zhang ’04 of Houston, TX—were among the top 12 scorers in the nation on the USA Mathematical Olympiad (USAMO) exam, a grueling, two-day test held this spring. Later this month, the best of that select group will travel to Japan to compete in the 44th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), which draws math students from more than 80 nations.
Tiankai Liu, who had a perfect score and a first-place finish in this year’s USAMO exam, is likely to be on that flight to Tokyo. “It is thrilling to solve problems and it’s thrilling to be stuck on them,” says Liu. “It’s even more thrilling to meet other people. Having been to two IMO’s, I know what an exciting experience it is to be able to meet students from so many different countries.”
http://www.ams.org/dynamic_archive/home-news-2003.html
2004년에도 역시 IMO에 합류한 티앙카이.
http://mathcircle.berkeley.edu/usamo.html
This year, several of the top scorers at USAMO were from California. Tiankai Liu, formerly from the San Jose and Berkeley Math Circles, twice BAMO winner in youngest age group andnow at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, received first place at USAMO as well as receiving the Greitzer-Klamkin Award for earning a perfect score. 라고 소개되고 있다. ^^ 단독 사진들도 엄청많네. 정말 조그맣다.
그리고 2004년에 미국 올림피아드에서 만점을 기록했다고 나오네.
http://www.bambooweb.com/articles/u/n/United_States_of_America_Mathematical_Olympiad.html
In 2004, the median score of the 265 USAMO participants was 4 points (out of 42). There was exactly one perfect score, by Tiankai Liu, who at the time was a senior at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire.
아래는 티앙카이 리우가 2004년에 인터뷰한 내용 링크. 고등학교인 Exeter 교지에 실린 것 같다.
http://www.exeter.edu/publications/exeter/winter_04/table_talk.pdf
그리고 이 책에서, 활달하고 낙천적인 모습을 보여준 한국인 신 동(이거 이름 진짤까? 하는 의문이.. 암튼 영어 이름은 david shin)역시 실존 인물이라는 것을 찾을 수 있었다.
http://people.csail.mit.edu/dshin/www/
I was born in Seoul, Korea, on August 30, 1983. I have a wonderful father, mother, and older sister. I moved to the United States at the age of two, and have lived in New Jersey most of my life. My defining achievement in high school was winning a silver medal at the 2001 International Mathematical Olympiad. I was the first Korean-American to ever represent the USA at this competition.
