<p>Aditya Prakash, a Class 11 student from Mangaluru, has been selected for the 58th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) to be held in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, in July. <br /><br />He is among six students from India who will take part in the coveted mathematics championship held every June/July. He made it to the IMO after clearing the Indian National Mathematical Olympiad (INMO) in which 300 students from all over the country had taken part. <br /><br />Aditya is the first student from Karnataka in the last 21 years to compete in the two-day IMO where participants have to solve mathematical problems in four-and-a-half hours, said Severene Rosario, Institution Programme Coordinator at Centre for Advanced Learning (CFAL), where Aditya was trained. <br /><br />The international olympiad is conducted in Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics, Astronomy and Junior Science. Selection is through a three-tier process consisting of regional, state and national levels. Aditya’s qualification to the IMO has earned him a place in the prestigious Chennai Mathematical Institute. <br /><br />Aditya, who is studying at Kendriya Vidyalaya, Panambur, started preparing for the olympiad when he was in Class 8 and was mentored by Prof P N Subrahmanya and Dr Srikanth Pai. He was so passionate about mathematics that he used to solve maths problems round the clock. Seeing the spark in him, his parents — Om Prakash Barnval, Chief Manager, Official Language Division, at Corporation Bank’s head office in Mangaluru, and Pratima — decided to provide him proper training. The family hails from Jharkhand. <br /></p>
<p>Aditya Prakash, a Class 11 student from Mangaluru, has been selected for the 58th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) to be held in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, in July. <br /><br />He is among six students from India who will take part in the coveted mathematics championship held every June/July. He made it to the IMO after clearing the Indian National Mathematical Olympiad (INMO) in which 300 students from all over the country had taken part. <br /><br />Aditya is the first student from Karnataka in the last 21 years to compete in the two-day IMO where participants have to solve mathematical problems in four-and-a-half hours, said Severene Rosario, Institution Programme Coordinator at Centre for Advanced Learning (CFAL), where Aditya was trained. <br /><br />The international olympiad is conducted in Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics, Astronomy and Junior Science. Selection is through a three-tier process consisting of regional, state and national levels. Aditya’s qualification to the IMO has earned him a place in the prestigious Chennai Mathematical Institute. <br /><br />Aditya, who is studying at Kendriya Vidyalaya, Panambur, started preparing for the olympiad when he was in Class 8 and was mentored by Prof P N Subrahmanya and Dr Srikanth Pai. He was so passionate about mathematics that he used to solve maths problems round the clock. Seeing the spark in him, his parents — Om Prakash Barnval, Chief Manager, Official Language Division, at Corporation Bank’s head office in Mangaluru, and Pratima — decided to provide him proper training. The family hails from Jharkhand. <br /></p>
