SIMO Retiree Blog

(Gabriel here) Occasionally, while I am solving a maths olympiad problem, I will be suddenly reminded of another problem I have done in the past before. I'm sure this has happened to many of you too. I think each of these connections presents valuable learning opportunities, and can help to make your subconscious intuition more concrete.

(Aloysius here.) I love doing many things, and two of those things are mathematics and puzzles. There are puzzles that use basic mathematics, such as Kakuro or Tomtom puzzles that require summation/basic mathematics. But there are several puzzles that require other tricks that are reminiscent of Math Olympiad techniques, and in this post I will be giving several examples.

(This is Lucas.) Hi! In this post, I'm going to try and highlight a small but important part of my thought process when attempting Olympiad problems. 

(Dylan here.) 0. Introduction This post will be a bit adventurous, but hopefully the risk will pay off. As I am excited to jump into the main content, my introduction/message will be brief: I wish to convince you that everything can be put into words and pictures, even fuzzy intuition. I will attempt to do so by rambling abstractly about ideas that I believe I have understood to some extent, and I think are beautiful.