Zuming Feng is a member of the Academy's Mathematics Department. He is also co-editor of the just published USA and International Mathematical Olympiads 2005, the sixth in this series of volumes he has edited for the Mathematical Association of America, which sponsors the Olympiads. The volumes present the Olympiad exams, which consist of several challenging essay-type problems, and provide helpful hints for each of the problems as well as complete solutions.

Feng has authored and edited many books of mathematics, including Path to Combinatorics for Undergraduates: Counting Strategies, the series Mathematics Olympiad Around the World, and a series on selected topics related to problems from the training of the USAMO/IMO teams including algebra, combinatorics, and trigonometry. He is presently working on additional volumes to this series on the topics of Start-up Number Theory and Diophantine Equations.

Feng is the advisor to the successful Academy Math Club. In April, three academy Math Team members earned winning scores in the United States of America Mathematics Olympiad (USAMO,) a two-day, nine-hour essay/proof examination. In February, the team began its qualifying work, participating in the American Mathematics Competition 10 and 12, along with over 400,000 students nationwide. Only 12,000 of those students then qualified for the next level of competition, the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME.) In March, Academy math team members participated in the AIME,  the final qualifying event for the USAMO. Fifteen Academy students qualified for the 375 US Olympiad slots, making PEA the school with the most qualifiers in the nation, tied with Thomas Jefferson High School in VA, a magnet math and science school

In February, the team also saw success when they joined over 600 students in one of the largest math competitions in the US, the Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament. There, the Academy's Red team took first place in the Division A test, beating over 80 teams from the Northeast, while the Academy's Green team took second place, beating all other schools' first teams.

Learn more about...

Exeter's teachers