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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Science
Alex Bellos

Can you solve it? Are you a match for the world’s smartest teen?

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Last month, British student Alex Chui became the all-time most successful contestant at the International Mathematical Olympiad.

Chui, a year 13 student at Tonbridge School in Kent, scored 100 per cent in this year’s event, held in Shanghai, winning him a gold medal, and bringing his tally of medals to seven, five of them golds.

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