Beautiful Young Minds

blitz2163 said:
For the love of all things holy why did you sudenly start throwing meaningless brackets into all of your post? What you want to convey can be done through normal punctuation without the need to bracket anything.
Im going to have to add you to my ignore list because for some reason reading your posts drives me insane with brackets all over the shop.
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Seconded, first name on my ignore list :rolleyes:
 
there used to be a guy at my school (he finished) who got 200/200 in the senior maths challenge. not even the head of maths got 200/200 in the same test!

because he got 200/200, the UKMT gave him a special test with ~5 questions (to do in an hour). after the hour he had correctly completed four and was half-finished on the fith. the entire maths department combined couldn't do a single question in an hour!

when people usually come out of exams, they slap their foreheads and go "Damn, i got xx.yy wrong".

he came out of exams and explained WHY they got it wrong!

he ended up with about 1100 UCAS points afaik.
 
Slinwagh said:
Did anyone else think some of them were socially inept?
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They all were! I was expecting at least a "you may now kiss the bride" bit it was probably more a case of "you may now solve your algebra group theory question with the bride." :p
 
A friend of mine told me that during one of his maths exams (GCSE I think) he got so excited that he was getting all the questions right that "the inevitable happened" - he came. Still not entirely sure why he felt the need to share that with me.
 
Monkey Puzzle said:
A friend of mine told me that during one of his maths exams (GCSE I think) he got so excited that he was getting all the questions right that "the inevitable happened" - he came. Still not entirely sure why he felt the need to share that with me.
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:/

I wish i'd of watched this... :(
 
Monkey Puzzle said:
A friend of mine told me that during one of his maths exams (GCSE I think) he got so excited that he was getting all the questions right that "the inevitable happened" - he came. Still not entirely sure why he felt the need to share that with me.
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Well thanks for sharing that with us!
 
Slinwagh said:
Did anyone else think some of them were socially inept?
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I think that's the point. I'm guessing most of the people on it had Aspergers syndrome or something like that. Someone with aspergers is usually very good at maths at the expense of social ability.
 
Psyk said:
I think that's the point. I'm guessing most of the people on it had Aspergers syndrome or something like that. Someone with aspergers is usually very good at maths at the expense of social ability.
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Comment from the BMO team leader:

Geoff Smith said:
"In an average year, there are usually one or two students on the autistic spectrum among the 20 or so young people in serious training for the IMO. However, in the year that the film was made, by chance there were more than usual. The film-makers were clearly intrigued by this, and paid particular attention to some of these students."
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(http://plus.maths.org/latestnews/sep-dec07/bbc/index.html)
 
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