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been lying dormant?
It's not often we have a mind like
yours spring up off the radar.
He's mine.
I mean, I'm his... Um,
I've been teaching him.
The plot thickens.
Well, we'll get you
signed in, shall we?
Just a quick goodbye
and then avanti.
Well, Nathan, darling.
Um...
You got your phone
on you? Yeah?
Yeah.
Make sure you ring me as
soon as you land, yeah?
- All right. Bye, then.
- Bye.
Sorry.
Time to meet your
peers, Nathan.
Mingle. Mingle.
Um, watch your step, there's
Hey. How do you do?
How do I do what?
I mean, what's your name?
- Nathan.
- I'm Isaac.
I'm guessing this is your first
maths camp? You'll be fine.
Best thing is just to dive in.
Come. Sit down.
I mean, can you believe
the Chinese team?
They won six golds
again last year.
Yes, although upon recent evidential
proof I'd expect this to possibly change,
if I'm allowed to split
infinitives, to possibly change.
Which I believe I
technically am now.
Of course, one of the most
famous infinitive splits of all time
came in the introductory lines of
Star Trek, "to boldly go," and...
I think if the writers of a popular
American television series
can get away with it for 40
years, then, really, any of us can.
Don't worry, he's
always like this.
Everyone, this is Nathan.
- Hi, Nathan.
- Hello, Nathan.
Hi, I'm Pav.
Paf?
P-A-V, Pav.
Pav is from India. Pav.
Actually I'm from
Chipping Norton.
Yes, but of course I meant your
origins, not your birthplace,
before we open that
little Pandora's box.
Dear!
Seat belts on, please.
Seat belts on.
Right, don't sit at the front next
to the driver, that's my seat.
Right, away you go, driver.
Now, you are 16 of the cleverest
young brains in this country.
considered nerds or geeks
or whatever the insult
du jour might be.
But here, you are
among kindred spirits.
Now, assuming you're
capable of basic arithmetic,
you'll know that there are six places
available yet more than six of you.
Which means that this, to a large
extent, is about whittling you down.
Now, we will be training with four
other national teams in Taiwan.
And after some delicate
diplomatic negotiation,
I can confirm that the
Chinese will be one of them.
Now we should, of
course, be cordial
as it falls to us to host the
competition this year, in Cambridge.
But that doesn't mean
we can't be ruthless.
Now, I want you up there with
the Chinese, top of the table.
And I will consider it an abhorrent
failure to include a candidate
who does not win a medal.
Be under no illusion.
This is all about winning.
Although that doesn't
mean it can't be fun.
55, 89, 144,
233, 377,
987, 1,597, 2,584.
I like the Fibonacci
sequence, too.
Invaluable for
music compositions.
So you're new.
Fresh meat.
How's that going?
Okay, so you're the shy type.
Makes a nice change,
to be honest.
Most of these weirdos just wanna show off
about how much maths junk they know.
What?
Nothing.
It's just I'm usually
the weird one.
They do all seem good
at maths, though.
Yeah.
Here you are neither weird nor the
best mathematician, I'm afraid.
You are painstakingly average.
Post-Olympiad of course,
I'll need to branch out into
modem theoretical physics if I'm
going to describe a unified field theory
for the four fundamental
forces of nature.
Are you one of the fundamental
forces of nature, Luke?
No.
But you are terribly
gifted, aren't you?
Yes. Gifted but not
arrogant, Isaac.
Here we are. Maths
camp, Taipei.
Your home for the
next two weeks.
Right, everybody out.
Don't forget your umbrellas.
There's a typhoon coming.
- Hello.
- Hello. Welcome to Taiwan.
- Nice to meet you.
- Hello. I'm Richard.
My name is Jason.
Nice to meet you, Jaigen.
- Jason. Yeah.
- Jason. I'm sorry.
Jason. It was the accent.
Hello. Nice to meet you.
Right, come on, get
your bags. Chop-chop.
Can someone help
the man, please?
It's not the days of the
Empire. Thank you.
Here comes the typhoon!
Batten down the hatches.
Taiwanese.
Currently below
us in the rankings,
but they're our hosts, so
we should be gracious.
Here's the real competition.
The Chinese.
Guys, check out the board.
the Goldbach Conjecture?
Maybe it's what they do for fun.
I love cracking unprovable
theorems in my free time.
No one has proven
that it's unprovable.
Right, come on.
They won't bite.
The enemy!
Surrender or die!
Deng Laoshi.
Dear Richard, welcome.
- Such an honour to have you here.
- Thank you.
- Ni hao.
- Ni hao.
Students, hello.
I hope you are ready
for some mathematics.
Now, pay attention, Team UK.
Deng Laoshi and I have decided to
pair you up with a Chinese buddy
and you should make the
most of this opportunity,
or, more to the point, you should
spy on your Chinese counterpart
secrets to Blighty.
Very funny, Richard.
Luke Shelton.
Zhang Zhi.
Hello. My name is Zhang Zhi.
Luke.
Nathan Ellis.
Zhang Mei.
Nice to meet you. My
name is Zhang Mei.
Pavinder Kamdar.
This is Shao Tong.
- Nice to meet you.
- Ni hao.
And you know my uncle.
Nathan. The lucky one
learning from my niece?
We have high
expectations for her.
And for you, of course.
High expectations
all round, I say.
Zhang Mei.
Yes, of course, though it may be the
world's fastest developing nation
some of the cuisine doesn't seem
to have advanced quite so quickly.
- Careful. Careful.
- Look at this.
- Thank you. Zhi Zhia... Xie xie.
- Xie xie.
- You put this in there?
- You put the raw food in this.
In the peanut sauce?
- No.
- Okay, okay, I'll do that.
You don't use them... Like that.
Hold it like this and
pinch it like a lobster.
Yeah.
So, Nathan, what was your
score on the mock IMO paper?
Zhang Mei got the full seven
marks on questions one to three.
Though her combinatorics
is her weakest area.
I'm really not... Not that good.
No, but you soon will be.
Nathan, are you okay?
Almost everyone on the
camp speaks English.
It is expected of us.
You speak it very well.
Thank you.
So do you.
Chinese, I mean.
You don't say a lot
in English at all.
This room seems
reasonably symmetrical.
Apart from the window.
I don't know about you,
but I don't appreciate this
forced proximity to each other.
I'll take this side.
I'm going to the bathroom.
Go on, then.
My God, that is
absolutely disgusting.
Boom! Wanker.
Yeah?
- Yes. Who's this?
- It's...
Nathan? Is that you?
How are you doing?
How's it going out there?
Everything's different and
everyone's cleverer than me.
Look, Nathan, it's your
first night away and...
always really, really sh*t.
I mean, it's only
a fortnight, innit?
That's 14 days. And what's 14?
- A positive integer.
- Positive integer.
So think positively.
Which is the square root of?
Whose prime factorisation is?
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