Ömer Cerrahoğlu (born 3 May 1995) is a

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n IMO Gold medalist in

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. At the age of , he won a

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at the 2009

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, making him the third-youngest gold medalist in IMO history, behind

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and

Raúl Chávez Sarmiento Raúl Arturo Chávez Sarmiento (born 24 October 1997) is a Peruvian child prodigy in mathematics. At the age of , he won a bronze medal at the 2009 International Mathematical Olympiad, making him the second youngest medalist in IMO history, behind ...

Early life and education

He was born in

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to a Romanian mother and a Turkish father and when he was five years old, he moved with his family to

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, Romania. He graduated from the

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(MIT) in June 2018, where he studied computer science.

Career

In 2017, he participated in the 78th

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as a student of MIT and earned a Putnam Fellowship.Mark Krusemeyer & Daniel H. Ullman (2018) The Seventy-Eighth William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, The American Mathematical Monthly, 125:8, 675-688, Since his Gold Medal in 2009, he won three

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s at the 2010, 2011 and 2013 IMO's missing the gold by only 1, 2 and 1 points, respectively, and one more gold medal at the IMO 2012 in Argentina.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cerrahoglu, Omer 1995 births Living people International Mathematical Olympiad participants Romanian people of Turkish descent Romanian Muslims Romanian expatriates in the United States Putnam Fellows

Early life and education

Career

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