Balazs Bukva

Balázs Bukva (Hungarian name order: Bukva Balázs) is a Hungarian mathematician and mathematics student at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. He trained at the Budapesti Fazekas Mihály Gyakorló Gimnázium, Hungary's leading mathematics secondary school, and represented Hungary at the 2018 International Mathematical Olympiad, winning a silver medal with 29 points (rank 61 of ~600, 89.9%). Before that he won gold at MEMO 2017 and bronze at MEMO 2016, competed at the Romanian Master of Mathematics 2017, and placed in the Kürschák József competition. He has competed on Hungarian team math events such as Náboj alongside András Imolay and Zoltán Molnár-Sáska. He now studies mathematics in Cambridge, and lists his home as Budapest.

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• Won a silver medal for Hungary at IMO 2018 with 29 points, rank 61, 89.9% - the joint-highest score on the Hungarian team (tied with Attila Gáspár), and only 2 points off a gold.Jul 2018
• Studying mathematics at Trinity College, University of Cambridge and living in Cambridge; his Facebook lists hometown Budapest, indicating he moved from the Fazekas pipeline straight into Cambridge maths.
• Attended the Budapesti Fazekas Mihály Gyakorló Gimnázium, Hungary's premier math school, and competed for it in class 12 (2018); his teachers listed for the Kürschák win are Hujter Bálint, Gyenes Zoltán, Szűcs Gábor and Dobos Sándor - the national olympiad coaching pipeline.2018
• Placed 3rd individually at MEMO 2017 with a gold medal (26 points), behind one teammate and a Pole - part of the deep Hungarian MEMO cohort with Imolay and Simon.2017
• Took 2nd prize at the Kürschák József Mathematical Competition in 2018 (in class 11 per the wiki listing) and was an awardee in 2016, the top domestic Hungarian high-school math contest.2018
• Selected to represent Hungary at the Romanian Master of Mathematics 2017 (contestant 2) - one of the strongest invitational olympiads, a step above the domestic circuit.2017
• The 2018 Hungarian IMO team (Bukva, Gáspár, Imolay, Janzer, Egri plus one) took four silver and two bronze medals for 15th place among countries.Jul 2018
• Competed on Hungarian teams at Náboj Math and the Medve outdoor math competition with András Imolay and Zoltán Molnár-Sáska - a recurring study-team, showing his successes came from a coordinated Budapest cohort rather than solo work.