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I made problems for Math Olympiad, mostly for kids 10-12 y.o., but also some for older students. For kids, it's hard because it must be interesting and not too
by gus_massa 6d ago
I made problems for Math Olympiad, mostly for kids 10-12 y.o., but also some for older students.
For kids, it's hard because it must be interesting and not too hard, mix some interesting math concept and some hidden part that makes it an interesting puzzle.
For a Millenium-like problem it's harder, because it must be interesting so mathematicians care about it, it must be hard so no one can solve it for a few decases, it must have some hints that is possible to solve it in a sensible amount of time (let's say a century!). It's more like discovering a meteorite than making a super nice porcelain pot.
There are plenty of open problems, so once the current wave of solutions in done I guess we will find a few that out of reach of the current LLM but we hope they can be solved in a sensible amount of time (let's say a century!).