Occupation graduate student | Education Homeschooling | |
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Born September 1993 (age 23) Danville, California Known for Scripps National Spelling BeeIntel Science Talent Search | ||
Evan Michael O'Dorney (born September 1993) is an American mathematics student. As a home-schooled high school student and college student, he won many contests in mathematics and other subjects, including the 2007 Scripps National Spelling Bee, 2011 Intel Science Talent Search, four International Math Olympiad medals, and three Putnam Fellowships. A 2013 report by the National Research Council called him "as famous for academic excellence as any student can be".
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Education and competitions
As a home-schooled high school student, O'Dorney attended classes at the University of California, Berkeley from 2007 to 2011. He was the winner of the 2007 Scripps National Spelling Bee, and an interview O'Dorney did on CNN with Kiran Chetry after he won the Scripps Spelling Bee later became a viral video. During this time he was a four-time International Math Olympiad medalist, with two gold and two silver medals. In 2010, he won $10,000 (half for himself and half for the Berkeley Mathematics Circle) in a national "Who Wants to Be a Mathematician" contest, held at that year's Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Francisco. In 2011 he won the Intel Science Talent Search for a project entitled "continued fraction convergents and linear fractional transformations".
He started attending Harvard College in 2011 where he studied mathematics. While at Harvard, he was a three-time Putnam fellow. In 2015–16, he studied Part III of the Mathematical Tripos at Cambridge, on a Churchill Scholarship. As of 2016, he is a graduate student in mathematics at Princeton University.
Other interests
Although his primary interest is mathematics, O'Dorney has had a strong interest in music. In 2007, he composed a song to help memorize the digits of π. At Harvard, O'Dorney studied music as well as mathematics, and continued to compose music, as well as singing in a chamber music group and playing the organ and piano.
