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Dominic Pinto
Mathematician; Bronze medallist for Luxembourg at IMO 1998
academic
MathematicsPure mathematicsFunctional analysisBanach algebras
- 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.
Education
The European School, Kirchberg, Luxembourg
University of Leeds
PhD, Pure Mathematics
AchievementsBronze medal at the 39th IMO (1998) representing Luxembourg (16 pts: 2,7,2,1,4,0; rank 176) · 1st place (premier) at the 1998 Olympiade Mathématique Belge senior category · Co-published peer-reviewed pure-mathematics research on radical Banach algebras (Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, 2005)
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AwardsBronze medal, International Mathematical Olympiad 1998 (Luxembourg) · First place, Olympiade Mathématique Belge 1998
Competition record
Luxembourg · IMO