2014 — 2015: Mathematics

In the aca­dem­ic year 2014/15 St. Peters­burg Uni­ver­sity togeth­er with Euler Found­a­tion holds the united inter­na­tion­al math­em­at­ic­al olympi­ad «For­mula of Unity» / «The Third Mil­leni­um». Secondary/​high school stu­dents (11-year old and above) are invited to participate.

This Olympi­ad con­tin­ues tra­di­tions of two Olympi­ads, one of which — «For­mula Of Unity» — was first held in 2012/2013; anoth­er — «The Third Mil­len­ni­um» — has been con­duc­ted since 2001, and, in its turn, it con­tin­ues the tra­di­tions of Sor­os Olympi­ads. In 2013/14 aca­dem­ic year the Olympi­ad gathered more than 5,000 stu­dents from 13 coun­tries. Par­ti­cip­a­tion is free of charge.

E‑mail of the Organ­iz­ing Com­mit­tee: fdi@​imi.​ras.​ru.

The Olympi­ad is over!

The Olympiad is over!The award­ing cere­mony took place on June 19, 2015 at St. Peters­burg University.

This year, the qual­i­fy­ing round gathered almost 6,000 stu­dents from 15 coun­tries (includ­ing Rus­sia), of which more than a thou­sand passed to the final round. More than 300 chil­dren were awar­ded with dip­lo­mas of dif­fer­ent degrees for suc­cess­ful participation.


Chronology of events

All the news about the Olympiad are posted below from newest to oldest.

Final res­ults of the second round

March 27, 2015

The below table con­tains res­ults of all par­ti­cipants of the final round of the Olympi­ad «For­mula of Unity» / «The Third Mil­len­ni­um» 2014/15 except for the out-of-com­pet­i­tion par­ti­cipants and those dis­qual­i­fied for non-inde­pend­ent work.

Res­ults of the 2nd round (updated on April 5).

Each prob­lem was scored out of 7 points. Thus, the max­im­al pos­sible indi­vidu­al res­ult is 42 points. The jury awards dip­lo­mas of degrees I, II, III based on the fol­low­ing thresholds.

GradeI degreeII degreeIII degree
R5423225
R6403227
R7332318
R8403327
R9393125
R10383126
R11383126

List of win­ners (updated on April 5).

The award­ing cere­mony is pre­lim­in­ar­ily sched­uled for June 19, 2015 at St. Peters­burg Uni­ver­sity. The details will be giv­en later.

Res­ults of out-of-com­pet­i­tion par­ti­cipants will be sent on request.

Final round is over

February 11, 2015

The final round of the Olympi­ad «For­mula of Unity» / «The Third Mil­len­ni­um» is over. The jury had star­ted eval­u­ation of solutions.

Pre­lim­in­ary res­ults of the final round will be pub­lished in March.

Here are the final round prob­lems in Eng­lish.

Final round

January 24, 2015

The second (final) round of the Olympi­ad «For­mula of Unity» / «The Third Mil­len­ni­um» 2014/15 will be held in a num­ber of places on vari­ous dates between Feb­ru­ary 7 and 10  (see the file below). The round will last for 4 hours.

Par­ti­cipants of the 2nd round include the win­ners of the first round as well as all those who received dip­lo­mas for win­ning in the Olympi­ad 2013/14 (not includ­ing those with hon­or­able men­tions and dip­lo­mas for the 2nd round).

Here is the full list of those invited to the 2nd round (updated on Feb­ru­ary 8).

It is neces­sary to bring your pens and paper with you. The par­ti­cipants are not allowed to use cal­cu­lat­ors, com­puters, tele­phones, any oth­er com­mu­nic­a­tion tools.

Here is a list of places where one can par­ti­cip­ate in the 2nd round (updated on Feb­ru­ary 8) with the cor­res­pond­ing date. For oth­er places in the ex-USSR, see Rus­si­an page.

Final res­ults of the first round

December 27, 2014

Final results of the first roundFinal results of the first roundThe first round of the Olympi­ad «For­mulo of Unity» / «The Third Mil­len­ni­um» 2014/15 involved more than 6000 school stu­dents from 15 countries.

We pub­lish list of the win­ners of the first round (updanted on Janu­ary 27)

If you are not in the list and inter­ested to know your res­ult please write to the jury at fdi-​tmj@​formulo.​org.

The max­im­al score for each of the prob­lems was 7. The threshold to pass to the second round was:

R5R6R7R8R9R10R11
24242316162326

The second round will be held on Feb­ru­ary 1 8, 2015 sim­ul­tan­eously in vari­ous sites. The list of the sites will be pub­lished later. Besides of the win­ners of the 1st round, the win­ners of the 2013/14 Olympi­ad are invited to par­ti­cip­ate in the 2nd round.

The delay in announce­ment of first round results

December 18, 2014

The organ­iz­ing com­mit­tee would like to apo­lo­gize for the delay in announce­ment of res­ults of the first round of Inter­na­tion­al Math­em­at­ic­al Olympi­ad «For­mula of Unity» / «The Third Millennium».

The res­ults will be pub­lished on Decem­ber 25th.

Solu­tions of the first round problems

November 5, 2014

Solu­tions of the 1st round of the FdI Olympi­ad are published.

The qual­i­fy­ing round is over

October 22, 2014

Thank you all for par­ti­cip­a­tion in the qual­i­fy­ing round of the united inter­na­tion­al math­em­at­ic­al olympi­ad «For­mula of Unity» / «The Third Mil­leni­um» 2014/15!

The jury had star­ted eval­u­ation of solutions.

Start of the qual­i­fy­ing round

October 1, 2014

First round will last until Octo­ber 21. Here are the problems:

Announce­ment of the Olympiad

September 16, 2014

Dear friends!

We are happy to announce the forth­com­ing inter­na­tion­al math­em­at­ic­al olympi­ad «For­mulo de Integreco» / «The Third Mil­len­ni­um» con­duc­ted by Euler Found­a­tion jointly with Saint Peters­burg State University.

Secondary/​high school stu­dents (11-year old and above) are invited to par­ti­cip­ate. The Olympi­ad is held in two rounds. The first (extra­mur­al) round will take place from Octo­ber 1 to Octo­ber 21, 2014, its prob­lems will be pub­lished on Octo­ber 1 on our web­site. The second, intra­mur­al round will be held sim­ul­tan­eously in many cit­ies of Rus­sia and in oth­er coun­tries on Feb­ru­ary 1, 2015. This Olympi­ad con­tin­ues tra­di­tions of two Olympi­ads, one of which — «For­mula Of Unity» — was first held in 2012/2013; anoth­er — «The Third Mil­len­ni­um» — has been con­duc­ted since 2001, and, in its turn, it con­tin­ues the tra­di­tions of Sor­os Olympi­ads. In 2013/14 aca­dem­ic year the Olympi­ad gathered more than 5,000 stu­dents from 13 countries.

Par­ti­cip­a­tion is free of charge. Every­body is invited to take part in the first round and the win­ners will be invited to the second round. Par­ti­cipants with the best res­ults in the second round will be invited to the inter­na­tion­al math­em­at­ic­al camp «For­mulo de Integreco».

We hope that teach­ers, home­room teach­ers and circle tutors would be able to take a con­sid­er­able part in organ­iz­ing the first round at their schools and then in eval­u­ation of the first tour prob­lems (see the para­graph «Inform­a­tion for teach­ers and loc­al coordinators»).

Inform­a­tion for indi­vidu­al participants

The par­ti­cipants are sup­posed to be school stu­dents of grades equi­val­ent to Rus­si­an grades 5–11 (table of match­ing grades). If you are will­ing to par­ti­cip­ate you don’t have to report your par­ti­cip­a­tion in advance, it’s enough just to send your solu­tions by Octo­ber 21, 2014. Solu­tions are accep­ted in Esper­anto, Rus­si­an, Eng­lish, Span­ish, Romani­an, Geor­gi­an, French or Ger­man and are to be sub­mit­ted via e‑mail in one of the stand­ard formats (doc, txt, odt or pdf) or as scanned hand-writ­ten doc­u­ments. Solu­tions in oth­er lan­guages may be accep­ted if agreed with loc­al coordin­at­ors. The prob­lems, e‑mail address for sub­mit­ting solu­tions, and detailed instruc­tions will be pub­lished here on Octo­ber 1.

It is pos­sible for primary school stu­dents (1–4 grades for example) to par­ti­cip­ate and solve the Olympi­ad prob­lems if they like.

If you learnt about the Olympi­ad from your teach­ers, fol­low their instruc­tions: your work is likely to be handed to them.

Inform­a­tion for teach­ers and loc­al coordinators

We would be grate­ful for any help in coordin­at­ing the Olympi­ad loc­ally thus con­trib­ut­ing to our com­mon goal of rising school stu­dent interest in math­em­at­ics. You may organ­ize par­ti­cip­a­tion of stu­dents from a class, a school, or an entire town or city. How­ever, it is import­ant that stu­dents par­ti­cip­ate vol­un­tar­ily and work individually.

After col­lect­ing writ­ten or typed solu­tions from the par­ti­cipants you can send them to us no later than on Octo­ber 22. You will be informed about the res­ults at a later time (depend­ing on the num­ber of participants).

How­ever, instead of this, you can eval­u­ate the solu­tions your­self. If you choose this option, you will receive cor­rect solu­tions and cri­ter­ia for eval­u­ation from us (between Octo­ber 23 and 27). In this case you will send us only sub­mis­sions from the par­ti­cipants with the best scores on our request.

If you eval­u­ate the solu­tions your­self, you will need to send us the list of par­ti­cipants by Octo­ber 22 and the res­ults of eval­u­ation by Novem­ber 10 (unless we agree upon a dif­fer­ent timeline).

Although it is not neces­sary to inform us about par­ti­cip­a­tion of your group in advance, it will be help­ful if you do so by con­tact­ing us via e‑mail fdi@​imi.​ras.​ru. Please provide the fol­low­ing inform­a­tion in your message:

  • The name and the type of the group of par­ti­cipants (a class, a school, a city or a country);
  • Estim­ated num­ber of par­ti­cipants in this group;
  • Wheth­er you are going to eval­u­ate the solu­tions yourself.

If you are ready to coordin­ate the Olympi­ad and per­form the eval­u­ation in a big com­munity such as a city, a region or a coun­try, we will appre­ci­ate if you con­tact us before the begin­ning of the Olympiad.

The prob­lems of the first round will be pub­lished on Octo­ber 1 in Rus­si­an and Eng­lish, but we are ready to pub­lish them in oth­er lan­guages as well if loc­al coordin­at­ors help us with trans­la­tion. In this case, we will send them the prob­lems to be trans­lated earli­er, a few days before the begin­ning of the first round.

Thank You very much for your participation!

The Organ­iz­ing Committee