Competitions for Young Mathematicians by Alexander Soifer

Author:Alexander Soifer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

9.10 Our Wish for the Participants

In conclusion we have the following request to our participants. All around the world, including Moscow, educators are unjustly shifting their focus from teaching to competitions. Olympiads, tournaments, math battles and other events, which were intended as a means to check the mathematical abilities of students, have gone way beyond the learning of mathematics needed to form these abilities. We advise students to pay more attention to studying and less to competitions. The main things in studying is to work systematically and not to rush. The outstanding Russian mathematician Igor Rostislavovich Shafarevich once wrote that a wonderful trait of Moscow mathematical circles is that every question is discussed for as long as it is needed, with no rush. Such style of work is in conflict with the busy rhythm of our lives. To achieve this style you only need to select all the interesting possibilities—the necessary ones, and out of the necessary ones—the most interesting. Don’t spend your time on nonsense, although this is not easy. Don’t go around with your eyes closed, try to look at the world with your own eyes, do not blindly follow the authors of books and concepts. Good luck!

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