Raúl Arturo Chávez Sarmiento (born 24 October 1997) is a Peruvian child prodigy in mathematics.
At the age of 11 years, 271 days, he won a bronze medal at the 2009 International Mathematical Olympiad, making him the second youngest medalist in IMO history, behind Terence Tao, who won a bronze medal in 1986 at the age of 10.
[1] He then won a silver medal at the 2010 IMO, a gold medal (6th ranked overall) at the 2011 IMO, and a silver medal again at the 2012 IMO.
[2] Chávez Sarmiento received his Ph.D. in 2024 from Harvard University with the thesis The Hilbert-Chow algebra of a proper surface and Grojnowski calculus.
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