Stephen Lamontagne, a senior at Barrington High School, is one of 10 students from across the country who has been selected to compete for $10,000 in the 2012 national Who Wants to Be a Mathematician contest.
BARRINGTON — Stephen Lamontagne, a senior at Barrington High School, is one of 10 students from across the country who has been selected to compete for $10,000 in the 2012 national Who Wants to Be a Mathematician contest.
The competition will be held on Jan. 6 in the Hynes Convention Center in Boston.
Stephen, who won $3,000 in the same competition last year, was selected for the 2012 national Who Wants to Be a Mathematician based on his score on a qualifying test. The exam included questions on algebra, trigonometry, probability, and math history.
This is the third year for the national Who Wants to Be a Mathematician contest. The American Mathematical Society has been conducting regional contests at universities and science centers from Boston to Hawaii since 2001. In the contest’s history, nearly 600 students have won more than $250,000 in cash and prizes.
The contest, which is sponsored by Texas Instruments, Maplesoft, John Wiley & Sons, and the AMS, will be broadcast live on the web at http://ustre.am/rdm5 from 9:30 to 11 a.m.
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