The Author
The Author
Mr. Anant Mudgal has represented India as a member of the six-person Indian team to the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) in the years 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018, winning an Honourable Mention, two Bronze Medals, and a Silver Medal, respectively.
Mr. Mudgal proposed Problem Six at the 60th IMO held in Bath, United Kingdom — the most difficult problem on the contest. He became the only Indian to have proposed Problem Six at the IMO, and among only five Indian problem-proposers to the IMO in its history of sixty-five years.
After completing his undergraduate education at the Chennai Mathematical Institute, he went on to pursue the Master of Advanced Study in Pure Mathematics — known as Part III of the Mathematical Tripos at Trinity College, University of Cambridge on the Ramanujan Research Studentship — a full scholarship typically offered to only one mathematics undergraduate student in India by Trinity College to commemorate the college’s historic connection to the legendary Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.
He has been one of the leading coaches of the Indian IMO program and has been on numerous committees including the problem-selection committee of the Indian National Mathematical Olympiad and the Indian IMO Team Selection Tests. He served as Scientific Observer A to the Indian IMO Team to IMO 2023 held in Chiba, Japan, and was a Coordinator of the IMO at IMO 2024 held in Bath, United Kingdom.
Mr. Mudgal has also been involved in the training of IMO teams across the world and has taught students across five continents and fifteen countries. He has offered several guest lectures, training sessions, problem reviews, and individual training to students and programs in many countries, including, but not limited to, the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland, Hungary, Malaysia, Brazil, Iran, and Sri Lanka, among several others.
After briefly joining a fully funded Ph.D. program in Pure Mathematics at the University of California, San Diego, he left for opportunities outside academia. Briefly, he worked at a top-tier quantitative trading firm in Singapore before eventually returning to India.
He now devotes himself to building his Mathematics Education Company Mathelots Pvt Ltd with the mission of providing high-quality mathematics education resources, methodologies, solutions, and technologies, to students in India and around the world, with the drive to teach mathematics the way it ought to be taught, and to provide excellent mathematics education to all.
