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Like in many other countries, in The Netherlands we have various means to stimulate general interest in mathematics among young people and to discover extraordinary talents. I mention: Pythagoras, our mathematics magazine for the youth (5 issues a year, about 15,000 subscribers).

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. University of Leiden, The Netherlands

    Jan van de Craats

  2. Christchurch, New Zealand

    Neville Gale

  3. Universidad Boliviana de S.F. Xavier Bolivia and Laguardia Community College, CUNY, New York, New York, USA

    Jose Gabriel Ipina

  4. Luxembourg

    Lucien Kieffer

  5. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    Murray S. Klamkin

  6. Canberra College of Advanced Education, Belconnen, Australia

    Peter J. O’Halloran

  7. University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji

    Peter Sanders

  8. Budapest, Hungary

    Janos Suranyi

  9. Babylon High School, Babylon, New York, USA

    Alfred Kalfus

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  1. Department of Secondary Education, N297 Lindquist Center, University of Iowa, 52242, Iowa City, Iowa, USA

    Marilyn J. Zweng

  2. Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, USA

    Henry O. Pollak (Chairman of the International Program Committee) (Chairman of the International Program Committee)

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van de Craats, J. et al. (1983). Competitions. In: Zweng, M.J., Green, T., Kilpatrick, J., Pollak, H.O., Suydam, M. (eds) Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress on Mathematical Education. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8223-2_15

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