<p>I thought MIT was his most favorable place so I posted it here.</p>
<p>For those who dont know him, he won a gold in IMO in his freshman year. That pretty much explains the rest of his mathematical achievements...</p>
<p>Anyone know which uni. he went to?</p>
<p>I know tiankai too though not personal.
He has also 2 golds from IOI and another from IMO
and even the special prize from IOI 2002
I saw him at IOI 2003 in Wisconsin</p>
<p>I do not know where did he go to and i am interested too</p>
<p>hes at harvard right now, i hear hes taking math 55, the hardest math allowed for undergrads, and possibly the hardest math class in the nation
he won 3 imo golds i think, and 2 usamo perfects? or osmething like that? yea, for ioi, he got some award for a brilliant solution that surpassed the judge's; and he went to rsi (rickoids rule!), itd stink to be the application after his</p>
<p>only richard would know that :)</p>
<p>LOVE YA!</p>
<p>WTF?</p>
<p>I thought he is only a junior at high-school!</p>
<p>I can't remember seeing him in IMO. Maybe he was hiding? :)</p>
<p>geeze guys, sometimes you overlook the most obvious answers...</p>
<p>...obviously he was taken out of our world to help destroy the Matrix and free humanity... d'uh</p>
<p>haha emmitt</p>
<p>tlqkf2002, he's my friend's roommate @ harvard actually</p>
<p>hey vecter, yer friends Tiankais room mate? Thatz pretty cool, CC has all the ppl! amrik, I think you went to IMO when Tiankai didnt. I dont know why, but he didnt go to IMO in his junior year (mite be sophmore)</p>
<p>hmm.. I thought all math geniuses would want to study in MIT or Cal Tech. Cuz I heard that Harvard's engineering isnt very good. Maybe its math institutions are good?</p>
<p>Gabriel Caroll, the IMO full mark dude also went to Harvard. I read his RSI research paper which got 3rd place in STS and man, it was hardcore.</p>
<p>i think harvard's better for pure math and MIT for applied math. mathematicians -> harvard, engineers -> MIT.</p>
<p>harvard = mit in terms of math</p>
<p>but in grad math MIT is actually slightly better I think</p>
<p>So why did he go to Harvard, not MIT?</p>
<p>cause its Haaaaaavahd of course!</p>
<p>you can't exactly quanitize how "good" a school is at in some area anyway... although U.S. news still trys...</p>
<p>the MOP/IMO types send to split btwn Harvard and MIT (w/ an occasional one going elsewhere, like Duke). I would imagine that they choose based on how they like the dorms, campus, people, or based on which school is stronger for their other interests. Then they cross register to take math classes at both places. They all start taking grad math classes pretty quickly, and draw on both schools. There are also some joint math organizations. The Math55 class that Tiankai is taking at Harvard also includes 2-3 MIT people.</p>
<p>But tiankai also had interests in Informatics
I think if a US citizen has a medal in some international olympiad
he is surely accepted everywhere,
unfortunately this is not true for internationals :(</p>
<p>I don't think Harvard is perceived as being a "bad" place to go for people interested in informatics, although it probably isn't as "good" as MIT. Looking at the seniors on the last 4 US teams to the IOI, 4 kids went to MIT, 3 to Harvard, 2 to Caltech. Another one (Steve Sivak) went to either Harvard or MIT, but I'm not sure which. Every one of the people who ended up at MIT also applied to Harvard. One of the coaches did undergrad CS at Harvard. And again, there's always cross-registration.</p>
<p>i think steve sivek went to mit and is now or was the quiz bowl president there. tiankai dindt go to imo junior year cuz he went to rsi. yea, its hard to compare mit and harvard in terms of math.</p>
<p>whoa steve sivek did IOI? I met him, you'd never expect that he was a genius</p>
<p>Steve won a bronze medal at the IOI in 2001. Okay, if he's at MIT, that makes the totals for IOI people 5 MIT, 3 Harvard, 2 Caltech. The totals for IMO people are probably evenly split btwn. Harvard and MIT.</p>
<p>tbh, I don't think it's worth calculating these facts...i mean in the big picture it's pretty trivial and a waste of time</p>