SIMO Retiree Blog

Sometimes, we forget how far we’ve come. This blog is now a little more than a year old! We’ve done well to keep up our weekly publishing streak, with 52 posts this year (and 17 more in the tail of 2023). Let’s celebrate the turn of the year with a consolidation of our writings.

(David here!) Putnam 2024 was released recently, so I decided to try a bunch of the problems while on the plane ride from NYC to Chicago.

 (This is Glen.) At some point, Ker Yang wrote a post on Reim's theorem, which he used to solve two past year IMO problems. I remember commenting to him that I had solved neither of them with Reim (and no, I did not bash them). Later on, I tried reconstructing my solution to IMO 2017/4, and I noticed something interesting that made me find another (slightly weird) solution that (I think) isn't on AoPS. So that's what I'll be writing about today.

(This is Yan Sheng.) In my mind, J. Kenji López-Alt is the greatest nerdsniper chef: he has made claims about cooking methods and techniques, based on experimental evidence, which have become the inspiration for later theoretical research.