October Newsletter

Hello Brilliant Minds, out there!

Here is the october edition of Moderators Newsletter updating you on the new developments you're going to cherish into the community. Moderators, a team of some highly obliged fellows to restrain the community, strive to improve your Brilliant experience,build up the community and get you learn the notions of Maths and Science through wiki collaborations.

NEW FEATURES TO BE EXCITED ABOUT

New looks good! So, here are several new features that will make you cherished. The Brilliant staff along with the vibrant community keeps on looking forward for new and exciting features that can help the community to learn and grow. And these are some of the new odds and ends Brilliant has successfully come up with in the past month:

IMO Problem Discussion Group

It's a discussion group excited to help you with the problems and enhance your proof writing skills. Sualeh Asif has organized this group and invited the community to take a participation. You will get an opportunity to shine your skills every week.For more details get in touch with IMO Problems Discussion Group.

Synthetic Geometry Group

The purpose of the group is to improve geometry problem solving skills through discussions of olympiad problems and special techniques. Xuming Liang wants to organize a discussion group which would help everyone to boost up their synthetic symmetry skills.

Wiki Talk Page

It is an exciting feature that everyone desired. You can get the feedback on the wikis that you write and also you're welcomed to post your feedback on the wikis to improve the experience of the wiki page and also to appreciate the great job done by the contributors. You can get more familiar with this feature by taking your eyes through this wiki talk page.

INTERESTING CHALLENGING PROBLEMS

The active and vibrant Brilliant community posts tons of problems and notes which challenge us to think and be creative. Here are some of the challenging problems posted by the community in the past month. Beware,these problems may seem simple,but you will have to do ingenious thinking in order to crack them: Swapping Ints, Astroids, Simply Expand it and Compute The Discriminant, There's gold in there!, Quick Algebra Identities.

A few problems! Never mind, you will get thousands of great interesting problems into the community that you are definitely gonna love. So stay tuned with this intellectual journey!

TOP 5 NEW AND ACTIVE MEMBERS

These people are new members of the Brilliant Family and they have been active in the previous month helping out the community and for that deserve honor and appreciation from all of us.

Greetings and welcome to the community, guys! I assure you that you're gonna fall in love with the community. If you seek any kind of help, staff members, moderators and the community members are always up for you, to help you out. Keep exploring, get familiar and stay tuned! Thanks for associating with us!

WHO TO FOLLOW

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These members have been very active and have helped the community by posting various,problems,solutions and notes.We should thank and appreciate their efforts.So here are those five(in no particular order):

Akhil Bansal : Highly active Akhil has been a spark for the community with daily contributions in problems and solutions.
Tan Kenneth : Tan's favorite topics are Geometry, Algebra, and Combinatorics, but that doesn't stop him from posting problems across all disciplines (His Logic problems are quite entertaining!)
Dev Sharma : Because he's a 14-year-old master of Algebra, we find it only fitting that Dev's profile picture is of famous mathematician Carl Gauss.
Atul Shivam : Checking out with the community by posting great problems and improving on posting the solutions, for a better engaging environment.
Akshat Sharda : Adding to build up the better experience for the community through his problems, comments and discussions.

NEW MODERATORS

Recently, our enthusiastic team of moderators got some fresh faces! Lets welcome them and congratulate them for their association to the team of moderators. You can reach up to them, this way:

Maggie Miller : She's a mathematics graduate student at Princeton University.She hails from Dallas and likes to play guitar and ukulele.
Satyajit Mohanty : He's from a small city in eastern India called 'Rourkela'. Currently, he's a student preparing for the entrance examinations to get admission into top Indian universities in the field of Mathematics or Engineering.
Nihar Mahajan : He is a 10th grader, living in Pune district of Maharashtra State in India. He loves playing table tennis ,listening to music ,watching anime and of course spending time on brilliant and possessing a keen interest in solving mysteries and detectives.
Prasun Biswas
Brock Brown
Curtis Clement

Dear fellows, that's it for this month. Stay tuned for next month's newsletter and happy problem solving!

With care

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