Hard Problems - Older Version

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*Old version, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxi_uzPLqV0 for version two with music by composer Todd Boekelheide*

Trailer for the upcoming film Hard Problems: The Road to the World’s Toughest Math Competition. Hard Problems is a feature documentary about the extraordinarily gifted students who represented the United States in 2006 at the world’s toughest math competition—the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO).
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Duration : 0:3:41

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Hard Problems Trailer - Updated

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Trailer for the film Hard Problems: The Road to the World’s Toughest Math Competition. Hard Problems is a feature documentary about the extraordinarily gifted students who represented the United States in 2006 at the world’s toughest math competition—the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO).
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Duration : 0:3:47

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Difficult Functions Question from 1996 AHSME #25

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Suppose that x^2+y^2=14x+6y+6. What is the maximum value of 3x+4y? It took me a while to solve it. A written solution can be read from http://www.gaussianmath.com/functions/1996AHSME25/1996AHSME25.html Check out www.gaussianmath.com for more amc problems and calculus related content.

Duration : 0:10:40

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