Clara Torres Latorre

Clara Torres Latorre
Torres in 2014
Born1997
Alginet, Spain
Alma materPolytechnic University of Catalonia
Occupation
  • Mathematician

Clara Torres Latorre (born 1997)[1] is a Spanish mathematician.[2] She holds 16 international titles, ten of which are gold medals. This achievement has made her the Valencian student with the best results in history in university-level math competitions.[3]

Career

Torres studied the Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics and Physical Engineering at the CFIS of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia as part of the Estalmat project. In 2014, she achieved gold medals in three high school science olympiads (mathematics, physics, and chemistry). That same year, she was honored at the Palace of the Generalitat Valenciana.[4] Sir Harold Walter Kroto, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, went specifically to the Palace to meet Torres and her teammates.

For two consecutive years, in 2013[5] and 2014, Torres won gold medals in the Mediterranean Mathematics Competition.[6] She also won gold in 2013, in Bolivia, at the Ibero-American Chemistry Olympiad (the greatest achievement in this discipline by any Spanish student).[7] She later added four more golds in mathematics: in 2014, in Bucharest, she earned gold at the International Mathematical Arhimede Contest; in 2015, in Puerto Rico, she won absolute gold at the Ibero-American Mathematical Olympiad,[8] leading the Spanish team that finished in third place. That same year, in Bulgaria at the International Mathematics Competition for University Students, she won another gold. In 2016, she repeated the achievement and also won gold in a speed programming competition in Porto.[9]

In 2014, after placing in the top two positions for four years in the Kangaroo Math Contest, Torres Latorre received the Silver Pin, the highest award from the Catalan Mathematical Society for competitors who earn recognition all four years.[10] [11]In 2016, at the 30th Ibero-American Mathematics Olympiad, she also won another gold medal.[12]

Years later, having fully embraced her gender identity as Clara, in June 2024 Torres Latorre obtained her PhD in Mathematics on the theory of regularity in obstacle problems of the Harnack inequality, from the University of Barcelona.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Act of defense of the doctoral thesis of Ms. Clara Torres Latorre" (in Catalan). University of Barcelona. 21 June 2024. Retrieved 14 June 2025.
  2. ^ "Tenth international gold medal for the Alginet native Damià Torres Latorre" (in Catalan). Archived from the original on 2018-08-07. Retrieved 14 June 2025.
  3. ^ "RiberaExpress, Damià Torres awarded at the International Mathematical Olympiad of Romania" (in Catalan). Archived from the original on 2016-10-05. Retrieved 2016-10-03.
  4. ^ "RiberaExpress, The student from Alginet, Damià Torres, honored by the Generalitat" (in Catalan). Archived from the original on 2016-10-05. Retrieved 14 June 2025.
  5. ^ "RiberaExpress, Damià Torres wins the XVII Mediterranean Mathematics Competition in Requena". Archived from the original on 2016-10-05. Retrieved 14 June 2025.
  6. ^ "RiberaExpress, Damià Torres receives gold at the Mediterranean Mathematics Competition". Archived from the original on 2016-10-05. Retrieved 14 June 2025.
  7. ^ "College of Chemists of Valencia, Successes of Valencian students in Chemistry Olympiads". Archived from the original on 2016-10-05. Retrieved 14 June 2025.
  8. ^ "Noticias de la Ribera, Damià Torres Latorre wins absolute gold at the Ibero-American Math Olympiad". Archived from the original on 2016-10-05. Retrieved 14 June 2025.
  9. ^ "Damià Torres Latorre has earned her ninth international gold medal". Noticias de la Ribera. 13 August 2017.
  10. ^ "Section: Affiliated Societies". Memory: 2013–2014 academic year (PDF). Institut d'Estudis Catalans. 2017. p. 415. Retrieved 14 June 2025.
  11. ^ Aparisi, Inmaculada (23 May 2014). "The Gandia Campus hosts awards ceremony for major math competitions" (in Spanish). Cope Onda Naranja. Retrieved 14 June 2025.
  12. ^ "SCM. News" (PDF). Scm.iec.cat. 2016. p. 19. Retrieved 14 June 2025.

Bibliography

  • Espejas, Alejandro. Biography: A brushstroke of Damián through Mathematics (pp. 89–98), Spanish Mathematical Olympiad, 2014. Published by: University of Valencia; ISBN 978-84-370-9425-0
  • Ledesma, Antonio, 50 Years of the Spanish Mathematical Olympiad (pp. 88–89); 2014; Utiel. Published by: Mathematics Border Collective; ISSN 2254-2159
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