Is Harvard the Best in the World? I think not...

[tetrahedr0n]

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I see that tetrahedr0n is implying that just because the US does better than India on the IMO, it is far superior than India in mathematics.

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<p>In fact, I am implying that because Harvard attracts the best IMOers from all over the world as opposed to IIT (which at best attracts the ones from India), Harvard’s math majors will be superior. </p>

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Besides, brilliant mathematicians in India could care less about these trivial competitions. They want to focus on succeeding in IIT, getting a good graduate education later in the US perhaps, and then starting a multinational software company which might one day employ you tetrahedr0n.</p>

<p><a href=“http://jee.iitm.ac.in/Mmaths.php[/url]”>http://jee.iitm.ac.in/Mmaths.php&lt;/a&gt;
Makes the AIME look kind of tame doesn’t it tetrahedr0n???

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<p>Call the IMO trivial. Now please ask a research mathematician of the level the problems on the IMO, and see what he has to say. No, this doesn’t make the AIME look tame. These are cookbook mechanical problems that anyone can solve with some practice. It makes the AIME look far far harder than it is. Please learn about something before you talk about it.</p>

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Anyway, the fact is that the average math major entrant in Harvard would bomb the JEE. Its a darn fact.

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<p>If a math major would take the math portion, I’m willing to bet they’d do quite decently. Unlike you, I’m not going to state that it’s a “darn fact.” (I really like people who think their opinons are facts.)</p>