Brazil's Math Problem
Brazil's Math Problem
The new director of Brazil’s top math institute has bold ideas for addressing the country’s education deficit.
Rio de Janeiro is preparing to host a major international contest of skill, talent and mind-boggling human feats – and it’s not the Olympics.
The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), an annual competition for pre-collegiate math whizzes, is coming to Brazil for the first time next year. And as with the Games, officials are hoping that Brazil’s “mathletes” will have their strongest showing ever while competing on home turf.
Much of that responsibility is falling on Marcelo Viana, the new director of Rio’s prestigious National Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (...
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