Łukasz Orski, a third year student of WUST’s Academic Comprehensive Secondary School, has won a gold medal in the International Mathematical Olympiad,  the world’s most prestigious mathematical competition for secondary school students.

Every year, the International Mathematical Olympiad is held in a different country, and this year's host country was Russia. However, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the finals were held remotely.

All over the world, special centres were organised where the national teams gathered. Poles were solving the competition tasks at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. The Olympics lasted two days, during which the participants had to face six tasks of increasing difficulty.

– The tasks covered four fields – algebra, geometry, combinatorics, and number theory. It’s always very difficult to predict what they will be about, so it’s always a surprise in this respect. This year, there were many combinatorics questions and a little less number theory, which I didn’t quite like, because this particular field, along with algebra, is my favourite – says Łukasz Orski.

The Polish national team won six medals at the Olympiad – two gold, three silver and one bronze, and it took sixth place among 105 countries in the general classification.