2024 — 2025: Mathematics

School stu­dents of grades 5–11 from Rus­sia and of equi­val­ent grades from all over the world are invited to participate.
Par­ti­cip­a­tion in the com­pet­i­tion is free. All school stu­dents can take part in the qual­i­fy­ing round and the win­ners of it are invited to the final round. Win­ners of the pre­vi­ous Olympi­ad (with dip­lo­mas of any degree) are also invited dir­ectly to the finals.

Olympiad’s organ­izers

The Olympi­ad 2024/25 is organ­ized by

Saint Peters­burg Elec­tro­tech­nic­al Uni­ver­sity «LETI»

RANEPA

Balt­ic State Tech­nic­al Uni­ver­sity ‘Voen­meh’ named after D. F. Ustinov

Con­tact us

You can send your ques­tions by e‑mail olimp@​formulo.​org.


Current status: The qualifying round began on October 20 and will last till November 10 (11 days left).

Chronology of events

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

Tasks update

October 21, 2024

Dear par­ti­cipants,

A small cla­ri­fic­a­tion for prob­lems 6.7, 7.5, and 8.5 is required. In each of her moves, Soph­ie takes one or more pho­tos FROM THE TOP of any stack.

Start of the qual­i­fy­ing round

October 20, 2024

Here is the qual­i­fy­ing (remote) round of the competition.

Please remem­ber that your solu­tion of every prob­lem should include not only the right answer, but the full reas­on­ing as well.

We will be happy if your friends who like math­em­at­ics also par­ti­cip­ate. How­ever, every assign­ment should be done indi­vidu­ally; oth­er­wise, your sub­mis­sion will not be considered.

You do not need to repeat the text of the prob­lems in your paper. The solu­tions should be writ­ten in Rus­si­an, Eng­lish, Ger­man, Span­ish, Uzbek, Turk­ish, Esper­anto, Farsi or French . Use of oth­er lan­guages should be agreed with the organ­izers in advance.

The win­ners of Olympi­ad 2023/24 (those with Dip­lo­mas I‑III) can par­ti­cip­ate dir­ectly in the final round.

Prob­lems

How to sub­mit solutions

To par­ti­cip­ate in the «For­mula of Unity» / «Third Mil­len­ni­um» 2024/25 math­em­at­ics olympi­ad, it is neces­sary to sub­mit solu­tion files (each prob­lem in a sep­ar­ate file) by the dead­line of 23:59:59 UTC on Novem­ber 10, 2024 (which is 02:59:59 Moscow time on Novem­ber 11). Please register in our inform­a­tion sys­tem and sub­mit your solu­tions through the per­son­al account. Import­ant: if you already have an account, there is no need to cre­ate a new one.

Be sure to read the par­ti­cip­a­tion instructions.

You can upload either text files (in TXT, DOC, DOCX, or PDF formats) or scans of paper works (in JPG and PNG formats). Each prob­lem should be uploaded under its cor­res­pond­ing num­ber with­in the per­son­al account! In the solu­tion files, per­son­al inform­a­tion, includ­ing sur­name and name, should not be specified!

We do not accept qual­i­fy­ing round works in any way oth­er than through upload­ing with­in the inform­a­tion system.

Ques­tions?

All ques­tions to the Organ­iz­ing Com­mit­tee about the prob­lem con­di­tions and the pro­ced­ure for con­duct­ing the Olympi­ad can be asked by email olimp@​formulo.​org or +7(981)-750–19-21 Alex­an­dra (write in What­s­app or Telegram).

Ques­tions about the oper­a­tion of the inform­a­tion sys­tem can be asked by email isys@​formulo.​org.

Regis­tra­tion for the Olympiad

October 2, 2024

Dear par­ti­cipants!

The start of the qual­i­fy­ing round is just around the corner.

Please do not worry that there are no cur­rent Olympi­ads in the «Olympi­ads» sec­tion of your per­son­al account.

We do not have pre­lim­in­ary regis­tra­tion for the Olympiad.

The Olympi­ad itself, the con­di­tions and the form for sub­mit­ting answers will be avail­able in your per­son­al account start­ing from Octo­ber 20 (the day the Olympi­ad starts).

Announce­ment of the Qual­i­fy­ing Round

September 3, 2024

The Olympi­ad is con­duc­ted in two stages, the first of which (the qual­i­fy­ing round) takes place in the autumn, and the second (the final round) takes place in February-March.

The qual­i­fy­ing round is con­duc­ted in an online format using remote edu­ca­tion­al technologies.
Dates for the online qual­i­fy­ing rounds:
Math­em­at­ics: 20.10.24 — 10.11.24
Phys­ics: 16.11.24 — 07.12.24
Eng­lish: 20.10.24 — 13.11.24

The final round is (usu­ally) held in per­son at region­al venues.
To par­ti­cip­ate, you need to register in our inform­a­tion sys­tem (re-regis­tra­tion is not neces­sary). On the day the Olympi­ad begins (20.10.24), all the neces­sary inform­a­tion will be sent to your email.

Win­ners of the Olympi­ad receive a spe­cial vouch­er for edu­ca­tion­al camps «For­mula Unity.»

You can also find all inform­a­tion about the Olympi­ad on the offi­cial page at the portal olimpi​ada​.ru.

For a more suc­cess­ful par­ti­cip­a­tion in the Olympi­ad, we recom­mend solv­ing prob­lems from pre­vi­ous years and study­ing the recom­men­ded lit­er­at­ure. You can also pur­chase col­lec­tions of Olympi­ad prob­lems from pre­vi­ous years in print.