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Dominic Pinto

Mathematician; Bronze medallist for Luxembourg at IMO 1998
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Dominic Pinto is a mathematician who represented Luxembourg at the 39th International Mathematical Olympiad in 1998, winning a Bronze medal with 16 points (rank 176). He was educated at The European School, Kirchberg in Luxembourg, where he was a regular solver of the Mathematical Gazette's Student Problems, and in 1998 also took first place in the senior Olympiade Mathématique Belge. He went on to research pure mathematics at the University of Leeds, co-authoring a 2005 paper in the Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society on radical Banach algebras. His published contact affiliation was [contact omitted].

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UniversityUniversity of Leeds
MathematicsPure mathematicsFunctional analysisBanach algebras
Notes
  • Represented Luxembourg at the 1998 IMO at age ~18 and won Bronze (16 pts, rank 176), the only Luxembourg medallist that year surfaced in the country table.
  • Won 1st place (premier) at the 1998 Olympiade Mathématique Belge senior category, cited by Le Soir as an Ecole européenne student - the same year as his IMO bronze, marking him as Luxembourg's standout school mathematician of that cohort.
  • Later did pure-mathematics research at the University of Leeds, co-authoring 'An Almost Prime Element in a Commutative Radical Banach Algebra' (Bull. London Math. Soc., 2005), showing the olympiad talent converted into an academic mathematics career.
  • Was a pupil at The European School, Kirchberg, Luxembourg, where he repeatedly solved problems in the Mathematical Gazette's Student Problems pages (1993-1996).
  • Co-solved Dutch Mathematical Olympiad problems of 1996 alongside his likely sibling Eleanor Pinto (also European School, Kirchberg), suggesting a mathematical family.

Competition record

Luxembourg · IMO

1998 · Bronze · Rank 176