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This article presents a survey of the Madhava Mathematics Competition , a recently started Mathematics competition for undergraduate students in India. The competition was started in the academic year 2009–10 and has received a tremendous response in last eight years. It can be seen as an extension of the Olympiad competitions to undergraduate classes. We therefore take a review of Olympiads in India and then discuss the various aspects of this new competition.
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The problem is designed by Prashant Sohani, Regional Coordinator, Math Olympiad and Bronze Medalist in IMO in the year 2008.
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Both the problems are constructed by Dr. Tejaswi, ex-member of Math Olympiad Cell in India.
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Sholapurkar, V.M. (2017). Madhava Mathematics Competition—A Recent Initiative in India. In: Soifer, A. (eds) Competitions for Young Mathematicians. ICME-13 Monographs. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56585-9_10
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