Andy Loo

Andy Loo
Born  British Hong Kong
Nationality  Hong Kong
Fields Mathematics and Physics
Alma mater
Notable awards

Andy Loo (traditional Chinese: 盧安迪; simplified Chinese: 卢安迪; born 1994) is a student from Hong Kong who is a successful participant of the International Science Olympiads.

Education

Loo studied at Raimondi College Primary Section from Primary 1 to Primary 3, St. Paul's Co-educational (Macdonnell Road) Primary School from Primary 4 to Primary 6 and St. Paul's Co-educational College from Form 1 to Form 6.[4] He is currently a student at Princeton University.[5]

Achievements

Loo won a gold medal at the Elementary Mathematics International Contest in 2006, and represented Hong Kong at the International Physics Olympiad twice, winning a silver medal[2][6] in 2010 as the first 16-year-old Hong Kong team member,[6] and a gold medal[1] in 2011. He also won a silver medal at the 2012 International Mathematical Olympiad.[3]

He is also a recipient of the Sir Edward Youde Memorial Scholarship for Overseas Studies 2012/13.[5]

Research

As a high school student at St. Paul's Co-educational College, Loo used elementary techniques to prove that there exists a prime number between 3n and 4n for all positive integers n, and that, furthermore, the number of primes between 3n and 4n goes to infinity as n tends to infinity, thereby generalizing previous results of Erdős and Ramanujan.[7] See Bertrand's Postulate for details.

Family

Notably, Andy Loo's father is Kinson Loo (traditional Chinese: 盧健生; simplified Chinese: 卢健生),[4] who was named one of the ten most influential persons in the mobile phone industry in China in 2008 and 2009. Andy Loo's mother specializes in French literature[4] and has worked as a literary editor and a simultaneous interpreter before becoming a housewife.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Gold medals". 42nd International Physics Olympiad. Retrieved 3 September 2011.
  2. 1 2 "Silver medals". 41st International Physics Olympiad. Retrieved 3 September 2011.
  3. 1 2 http://www.imo-official.org/participant_r.aspx?id=21314
  4. 1 2 3 http://news.sina.com.hk/news/2/1/1/2537446/1.html
  5. 1 2 http://www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/201203/11/P201203090341.htm
  6. 1 2 http://hkage.org.hk/en/events/student/2011/competitions/hkpo/HK_triumphs_in_International_Physics_Olympiad_2010.pdf
  7. ↑ Loo, Andy (2011). "On the Primes in the Interval [3n, 4n]" (PDF). International Journal of Contemporary Mathematical Sciences 6 (38): 1871–1882.
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