Raúl Chávez Sarmiento Explained

Raúl Chávez Sarmiento
Birth Date:	24 October 1997
Birth Place:	Peru
Known For:	Second youngest bronze medalist in IMO history

Raúl Arturo Chávez Sarmiento (born 24 October 1997) is a Peruvian child prodigy in mathematics. At the age of, he won a bronze medal at the 2009 International Mathematical Olympiad, making him the second youngest medalist in IMO history, behind Terence Tao who won bronze in 1986 at the age of 10.^[1]

He won a silver medal at the 2010 IMO at age 12 years, 263 days, a gold medal (6th ranked overall) at the 2011 IMO, and again a silver medal at the 2012 IMO.^[2]

Chávez Sarmiento received his Ph.D. in 2024 from Harvard University with the thesis The Hilbert-Chow algebra of a proper surface and Grojnowski calculus.^[3]

See also

• List of child prodigies
• List of International Mathematical Olympiad participants

Notes and References

1. News: Peru won four silver and two bronze medals in International Math Olympiad . Living in Peru . July 22, 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20090723205006/http://www.livinginperu.com/news/9641. dead. July 23, 2009.
2. Web site: International Mathematical Olympiad. www.imo-official.org.
3. Web site: Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard. www.dash.harvard.edu.