Alex Song (Zhuo Qun) is the 18-year-old Canadian who won the prestigious International Mathematical Olympiad in Thailand.
While most eyes were on the athletic competitions at the Pan Am Games in Toronto, Alex Song recorded a rare perfect score in the intellectual competition last week, that involved more than 600 of the world’s best high school math students.
With this victory Song is now the all-time leader in the competition with five gold medals and one bronze during his career.
“Alex is unique and destined for greatness.”
Song says he’s pleased with his latest win, but says it wasn’t really that big a deal. His coach, Jacob Tsimerman, the leader of Math Team Canada, disagrees. Tsimerman, a math professor at the University of Toronto, says “Alex is unique and destined for greatness.”
Alex Song grew up in Waterloo, Ontario, before moving to Exeter, New Hampshire, in the United States in 2011, to start high school. He plans to study pure mathematics at Princeton University in the fall.
Math Team Canada finished ninth in the 104 nation competition. with very impressing individual results: Zhuo Qun (Alex) Song (Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H.) and Kevin Sun (Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H.) both earned gold medals and Yan (Bill) Huang (West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South, West Windsor, N.J.) Michael Pang (Fort Richmond Collegiate, Winnipeg, Man.),Alexander Whatley(North Houston Academy of Science and Mathematics, Houston, Texas) and Jinhao (Hunter) Xu (University Hill Secondary School, Vancouver, B.C.) earned bronze medals.
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