Mathethon

A Mathethon is a computational mathematics competition that is primarily focused on computer-based math in contrast to math competitions that use scientific calculators or handwritten only. Mathethons are analogous to hackathons for computer programming competitions. They can very in academic difficulty from elementary competitions, middle school, high school, and college level mathematics. They can be held in person individually, as a group, or hosted virtually online.

LabPlot software screen shot

Fractal art made from a Julia-Set

Trefoil knot, created with a parametric equation and ray traced in Python.

Competition categories

• Algorithmic problem solving
• Biomathematics
• Computational informatics
• Computational physics
• Computational mechanics
• Computational science
• Computational statistics
• Cryptography
• Data mining
• Discrete mathematics
• Machine learning - deep learning, mathematics of artificial neural networks.
• Mathematical modeling - computational model, computer simulation.
• Numerical analysis
• Mathematical chemistry
• Mathematics of paper folding - origami
• Mathematical optimization
• Mathematical visualization - computational geometry, geometric modeling, mesh generation, mathematical simulation.
• Procedural generation - fractal geometry, fractal art, fractal analysis, mathematical sculpture, fourier series.
• symbolic computational algebra

See also

• Comparison of TeX editors
• Computational education
• Computer-assisted proof
• GPU workstations and accelerated computing
• List of mathematics competitions
• List of algorithms
• List of finite element software packages
• List of graphing software
• List of interactive geometry software
• List of mathematical art software
• Lists of mathematical software
• List of numerical-analysis software
• List of numerical libraries
• Manim
• Mathematics and art and generative art
• Mathlete
• Numerical analysis programming languages
• Project Euler
• Parametric surface
• Parametric equation
• Recreational mathematics