IMO 2012 Problem 5: Euclidean-geometry translation
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Let ABC be right-angled at C and D the foot of C on AB. Choose X on CD. Let K lie on AX and on the circle centered at B through C, and L lie on BX and on the circle centered at A through C. Set M=AL∩BK. Prove MK=ML.
This page concerns the specialized translated task used in the IMO-AG-30 benchmark. The study’s aggregate result does not establish whether this individual task was solved.
Why it matters and what counts as progress
Why it matters: The task couples the altitude of a right triangle with two fixed-radius circle intersections.
What counts as progress: A proof of MK=ML under the translated right-angle, altitude and intersection assumptions.
How the problem developed
International Mathematical Olympiad The official archive lists this as IMO 2012 P5; it is one of the contest problems later encoded in the specialized IMO-AG-30 geometry language.
Trieu H. Trinh, Yuhuai Wu, Quoc V. Le, He He, and Thang Luong (AlphaGeometry) The Nature paper reports AlphaGeometry solved this translated benchmark statement using language-model auxiliary constructions and symbolic deduction/algebra. The paper includes the benchmark proof in its supplement.
Yuri Chervonyi, Trieu H. Trinh, Miroslav Olšák, Xiaomeng Yang, Hoang H. Nguyen, Marcelo Menegali, Junehyuk Jung, Junsu Kim, Vikas Verma, Quoc V. Le, and Thang Luong (AlphaGeometry2) The AlphaGeometry2 paper reports solving all 30 statements in the original IMO-AG-30 benchmark, which includes this formalized target. This is a system result on the benchmark encoding, not an independent review of the original contest wording.
AI contribution
AlphaGeometry solves 25 translated Olympiad geometry problems
AlphaGeometry solved 25/30 specialized IMO-AG-30 classical Euclidean geometry translations using learned auxiliary-point constructions plus a symbolic deduction and algebra engine; the paper does not claim all natural-language IMO geometry conditions are represented.
Sources
- IMO 2012 Problems (official archive)
- Trinh et al., Solving olympiad geometry without human demonstrations
- AlphaGeometry IMO-AG-30 formalized problem set
- Chervonyi et al., Gold-medalist Performance in Solving Olympiad Geometry with AlphaGeometry2
- AlphaGeometry2 paper, arXiv record
- Trinh and collaborators: Solving olympiad geometry without human demonstrations
- AlphaGeometry source and proof artifacts
- DeepMind account of computer checking
- Precise translated question and assumptions
- AlphaGeometry study and benchmark results
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Publication dates and editorial changes.
AlphaGeometry solves 25 translated Olympiad geometry problems