Colorado Mathematical Olympiad: The First Twenty Years and Further Explorations

This second edition of Colorado Mathematical Olympiad: the First Twenty Years and Further Explorations gives the interesting history of the competition as well as an outline of all the problems and solutions that have been created for the contest over the years. Many of the essay problems were inspired by Russian mathematical folklore and written to suit the young audience; for example, the 1989 Sugar problem was written in a pleasant Lewis Carroll-like story. Some other entertaining problems involve olde Victorian map colourings, King Authur and the knights of the round table, rooks in space, Santa Claus and his elves painting planes, football for 23, and even the Colorado Springs subway system.

Alexander Soifer has published around 100 articles and four other books entitled, Mathematics as Problem-Solving, 2/e How Does one Cut a Triangle? 2/e Mathematical Coloring Book, and Geometric Etudes in Combinatorial Mathematics. The 2nd ed. of Mathematical Coloring Book (forthcoming with Spenser). We are publishing 2nd ed. of the other three books. Soifer is renowned for creating significant problems and conjectures, and this book could be helpful to others thinking about organizing an olympiad. Soifer is at Princeton and Colorado. Author confirms sales of 3000 copies of all three books listed above, (excluding Mathematical Coloring Book) all self-sold by author. These three books are out of stock.