What is the best candidate of the International Math Olympiad doing?

(Dan Tri) - Alex Song (born in 1997) is considered the contestant with the most impressive exam results in the history of the International Math Olympiad.

A Chinese-Canadian contestant, Alex Song won five gold medals and one bronze medal for the Canadian team.

Alex started participating in the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2010, when he was only 13 years old. In his first participation, Alex won a bronze medal.

Alex Song is considered the contestant with the most outstanding achievements at the International Mathematical Olympiad (Photo: EFC).

For the next five years, Alex won gold medals for the Canadian team. Notably, in 2015 - the last year Alex participated in the International Mathematical Olympiad - he achieved a perfect score of 42/42. In the 2015 competition, only Alex Song achieved a perfect score.

Until now, 10 years have passed since Alex stopped at the International Math Olympiad, and no contestant has surpassed the series of achievements that Alex once established at this competition.

Alex Song was born in Tianjin, China. In 2002, Alex and his family immigrated to Canada and settled in Waterloo, Ontario.

Alex showed an interest in mathematics from a young age. Starting in first grade, Alex participated in math competitions. By fourth grade, Alex Song had participated in national and international math competitions. In fifth grade, Alex began to take an interest in international math Olympiads and practiced solving them.

Alex Song at the 2015 International Mathematical Olympiad, this is the last year he participates in this competition as a contestant (Photo: EFC).

Alex Song graduated from high school at 18 on schedule, without skipping a grade. In 2015, he began studying mathematics at Princeton University (USA) and graduated in 2019 with a bachelor's degree.

During his college years, Alex interned at Jane Street Capital, a prestigious financial firm in the US. Alex also worked at the multinational investment fund Citadel LLC, one of the largest and most successful investment funds in the world .

In 2022, Alex Song began attending graduate programs at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (USA).

Since 2020, Alex has been a key instructor in the training of Canadian team members participating in the International Mathematical Olympiad.

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