South African Mathematics Olympiad
 The premier mathematics competition in South Africa

Organised by the SA  Mathematics Foundation
in co-operation with AMESA and SAMS 
and the SA Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns

Sponsored by the Harmony Gold Mining Company

 

Links and Resources

South African links   
 
The South African  IMO page
winmath Winning Maths - the South African Mathematical Talent Search

MUTI - Mathematics for Undergraduates Teaching Initiative at the University of Pretoria

Michael de Villiers's page - Interesting articles on using Sketchpad in Geometry
MD

Mathematical Digest

 
SAMS - The South African Mathematical Society

AMESA - Association for Mathematics Education of South Africa

IPMO Interprovincial Mathematics Olympiad of South Africa

AIMSSEC - African Institute for Mathematical Sciences Schools Enrichment Centre
 

Mathematics Homepages in South Africa


University of Cape Town
    Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics 

University of Natal (Durban)
    Mathematics Department 

University of Natal (Pietermaritzburg)
    Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics 

University of the Orange Free State
    Department of Statistics and Mathematical Statistics 

University of the North
    Department of Mathematics

University of Pretoria
    Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics 

University of South Africa
    Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Astronomy 

Rand Afrikaans University
    Department of Applied Mathematics 

University of Stellenbosch
    Department of Mathematics
    Department of Applied Mathematics

University of the Witwatersrand
    Centre for Applicable Analysis and Number Theory 

University of Zululand
    Mathematical Sciences


Other Mathematics Competitions

International Mathematical Olympiad The official worldwide IMO page
International Mathematical Olympiad  Past papers and general Maths Olympiad links 
IMO 1998 Taipei, Taiwan: the official home page 
IMO 1998 problems
IMO 1998 results
IMO and some other problems and solutions (in HTML) are also available at http://www.kalva.demon.co.uk/
University of Cape Town Mathematics Competition
Samanyolu International Mathematics Competition - SIMC  Samanyolu College (Ankara, Turkey) organizes the Samanyolu International Mathematics Competition (SIMC) for high school students. 

Asian Pacific Mathematics Olympiad 

KANGAROO MATHS COMPETITION

Ibero-American Mathematics Olympiad

Mathschallenge.net

REAL WORLD MATH COMPETITION

The Math League (USA & Canada)
The Math League is dedicated to bringing challenging mathematics materials to students, and specializes in math contests (for high schools in the USA and Canada), books, and computer software.
Competitions in Countries of the World
Argentina

Australia
The Australian Mathematics Trust is a national non-profit organization which conducts mathematics competitions in Australia. Includes information on the WFNMC.
Belgium
Information about the Mathematics Olympiads in Belgium:
Bulgaria
Information about the National Mathematical Olympiad in Bulgaria.
Canada
Information about the Canadian Mathematics Competition (CMC) maintained by Ruth Malinowski (cmc@math.uwaterloo.ca).
The Canadian Mathematical Society also has an Olympiads Home Page.
Alberta Mathematics Competition
University of Calgary - Competition
Colombia
The WWW Home Page for the Colombian Olympiads (in Spanish), covering Mathematics, Phyisics, and Informatics, maintained by Fernando Vega Salamanca (fvega@zulima.uanarino.edu.co).
E-mail: olimpia@federman.uanarino.edu.co
Estonia

Germany
The Verein Mathematik-Olympiaden e.V. coordinates the German Mathematics Olympiads (DeMO). There is also information available about the German Mathematics Olympiad 1995.
Ireland
Information on Irish participation in the International Mathematical Olympiads and (eventually) copies of Irish Maths Olympiad questions and photographs. Contact: Gordon Lessells (gordon.lessells@ul.ie).
Italy
Information on the Italian Mathematics Olympiad (in Italian). E-mail contact: mvillani@cibs.sns.it
Japan
Information about the IMO in general (starting from 34th) and the Mathematical Olympiad Foundation of Japan. Maintained by Naomasa Maruyama (maruyama@ism.ac.jp).
Mexico
Information (in Spanish) on the Mexican Mathematics Olympiad (OMM) and problem sets (mostly in Spanish) of various (regional) mathematics contests. Maintained by Felipe Lemaitre Carabias (iker@hardy.fciencias.unam.mx). There is also an unofficial page for the Mexican Mathematical Olympiad (in Spanish), maintained by Pedro Sánchez.
Pierre Fermat Math Competition (in Spanish)
The Netherlands
Information about the Dutch Mathematics Olympiad (now also in English), maintained by Tom Verhoeff (Tom.Verhoeff@acm.org).
Norway
The Niels Henrik Abels Mathematics Competition selects students for partiticipation in the IMO. 
Peru
Information about Peru's math olympiad and the Cono Sur olympiads, maintained by Enrique Valeriano (evaler@hotmail.net).
Poland
Information (including problem sets) on the math olympiads in which Polish high school students participate (in particular: the Polish Mathematical Olympiad, the Austrian-Polish Mathematics Competition, and the Baltic Team Contest). Maintained by Krzysztof Chelminski (chel@mathematik.th-darmstadt.de) and Waldemar Pompe (waldipo@mimuw.edu.pl).
Singapore
Information about the IMO and Singapore's participation.
Slovenia
Mathematical competitions in Slovenia are supervised by DMFA.
Spain
Information and problem sets (in Spanish) for the math olympiads in which Spanish high school students participate, including the Spanish Mathematics Olympiad (Olimpiada Matemática Española = OME). Maintained by Cristobal Sánchez Rubio (csanchez@platea.pntic.mec.es).
Unofficial Spanish Math Olympiad page maintained by Ramon Esteban Romero.
Urugay
United Kingdom
       The UK Mathematics Competition
USA
USA Math Olympiad and the IMO
American Mathematics Competitions (AMC).
Middle School  Problem of the Week
Math Olympiads Website

Archives and Link Collections

A Collection of Math-Olympiad-Problems
Archive maintained by Hans Vernaeve (Hans.Vernaeve@rug.ac.be) in Belgium.

Math Competitions Archive
Kiran Kedlaya (Princeton University, USA, kkedlaya@math.princeton.edu) has a Math Competitions Archive with some of the recent (back to 1991) IMO problem sets in LaTeX format and information about the USA Mathematical Olympiad (USAMO). He now has a separate Math Problems Directory.

Math Competition on the Web
Archive and links maintained by Naoki Sato (sato-naoki@math.yale.edu) at Yale, USA.
OMAP: Online Math Problems
Database of problems that appeared on various national and international math competitions around the world, including detailed info about the Putnam Math Competition. Maintained by meeroh@mit.edu.

Soviet Union 1961-1986
The problems of the All-Soviet-Union national mathematical competitions (final part), 1961-1986 were translated into English and put on the Web by Vladimir Pertsel (voldemar@sagantec.co.il). There is also a plain ASCII version, and a compressed archive with everything: HTML, ASCII, and GIF pictures. [The original page and original archive are still available.]
Nick's Mathematical Puzzles  
        A collection of puzzles ranging over geometry, probability, number theory, algebra, calculus, and logic.
Olympiad Math Madness
A collection of mathematical brain-busters, specially for those who are tired of not-very-hard problems. Maintained by jefflock@geocities.com.
Mathematics Olympiad Lecture Notes
by Greg Gamble (gregg@maths.uwa.edu.au).


Useful Mathematical Starting Points


AMS - The American Mathematical Society 

LMS - The London Mathematical Society 

MAA - Mathematical Association of America

The WWW Virtual Library: Mathematics - at Florida State University