Putnam competition 2008
You can sign up for taking the Putnam exam. The deadline for signing up is October 8. The sign-up sheet is on the Undergraduate Bulletin Board opposite my room 503. The examination will consist of two periods of exactly three hours each with a two-hour break between the two sessions:| Saturday, December 6: Morning Session 10 AM - 1 PM, Science Center, Hall C | Saturday, December 6: Afternoon Session 3 PM - 6 PM, Science Center, Hall C |
Putnam competition 2007
| The Putnam Mathematical Competition in 2007 took place on Saturday, December 1. 2007. Congratulations to our winning team members and outstanding individuals: Harvard is once again top of the heap in the Putnam competition! Our winning team members, Tiankai Liu, Alison Miller and Zachary Abel, each receive $1000. The top five teams are: 1. Harvard, 2. Princeton, 3. MIT, 4. Stanford, 5. Duke. Congratulations to Arnav Tripathy, for being among the six highest ranking individuals (a Putnam Fellow), and receiving a prize of $2,500. Congratulations to Alison Miller, Tiankai Liu and Justin Bae for being among the next ten highest ranking individuals (for a prize of ). Alison is also the winner (for a third time!) of the Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize. Congratulations to Zachary Abel, Iurie Boreico, and Shrenik Shah for being amongst the next eight highest ranking individials; and congratulations to Zhou Fan, and Rishi Gupta for Honorable Mentions. A total of 3753 students from 516 colleges in Canada and the United States participated in the competition. |
Putnam problem of the day
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Each day, one of currently 576 different Putnam, national or international
Olympiad problems is displayed here.
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Putnam competition 2006
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The Putnam Mathematical Competition in 2006 took place
Saturday, December 2, 2006.
Congratulations to our team members, and all who competed in the 2006
Putnam competition, for another outstanding performance.
Harvard's Putnam team came in second, behind Princeton. Congratulations to:
Tiankai Liu, Alison Miller and Tong Zhang.
Each member of the team will receive $800. The 5 winning teams were: 1. Princeton, 2. Harvard, 3. MIT, 4. U. Toronto, 5. U. Chicago Congratulations to Tiankai Liu, for being again among the five highest ranking individuals (a Putnam Fellow), and receiving a prize of $2,500. Congratulations to Alison Miller for being among the next ten highest ranking individuals (for a prize of $1000). Alison is also the winner (again!) of the Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize. |
Congratulations to Zachary Abel, Jae Bae, Jared Bass,
Steven Byrnes, Charles Chen, Ben Conlee, Rishi Gupta,
Daniel Jerison, Joel Lewis, Mark Lipson,, Dragos Michnea,
Gregory Price, and Tong Zhang. They are among the Honorable Mention
Individuals. A total of 3640 students from 508 colleges in Canada and the United
States participated in the competition. The Harvard Team are the winners in the 2007 Mathematical Contest in Modeling: The Harvard team (Ben Conlee, Abe Othman, and Chris Yetter) earned the award of Outstanding Winners on the 23rd annual Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) "A" problem. This year 949 teams representing institutions from 12 countries participated in the contest. 351 teams worked on the Problem "A". They were asked to develop a model for "fairly" and "simply" determining congressional districts for a state. |
Putnam competition 2005
| Harvard is the winner of the Putnam Competition 2005. Congratulations to our team members Tiankai Liu, Alison Miller, and Tong Zhang.. Each member of the team will receive $1,000. | The 5 winning teams are: Harvard, Princeton Duke MIT and Waterloo |
| Congratulations to the Ricky Liu and Tiankai Liu. They are among the six highest ranking individuals, and they will receive $2,500 each. Congratulations to Steven Byrnes and Alison Miller are among the next ten highest ranking individuals. They will receive $1,000 each. Alison Miller is a winner of Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize, and she will receive $1,000. Congratulations!. | Congratulations to Jae Bae Joel Lewis, Tong Zhang and Yan Zhang. They are among Honorable Mention Individuals. 3545 students from 500 colleges in Canada and the United States participated in the competition. The results on our undergraduate bulletin boards. If you want to know your personal result, ask Svetlana. |
| We also have good news from the annual Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) and the Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (ICM). Over 900 teams competed this year. | The Harvard team of Christopher Yetter, Neal Gupta, and Benjamin Conlee was designated as Outstanding Winner SIAM Award. |
Old Exams and links to Archives
About the competition
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The Putnam competition
annualy takes place in December. From the
description: The Putnam examination tests originality, technical competence and familiarity with the formal theories embodied in undergraduate mathematics. Questions cut across the bounds of various disciplines, and include self-contained questions that do not fit into any of the usual categories. These self-contained questions can involve elementary concepts from group theory, set theory, graph theory, lattice theory, number theory or cardinal arithmetic. |
Results from the 2006 competition
The list of Winners is hereResults from the 2005 competition
The list of Winners is hereResults from the 2004 competition
The list of Winners is hereResults from the 2003 competition
The list of Winners here| Rank | School | Team Members (in alphabetical order) |
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MIT | Reid W. Barton, Daniel M. Kane and Yevgeny K. Zaytman |
| 2 | HARVARD UNIVERSITY | Gabriel D. Carroll, George Lee, Jr., and Alexander B. Schwartz |
| 3 | DUKE UNIVERSITY | David G. Arthur, Nikifor C. Bliznashki and Oaz Nir |
| 4 | CALTECH | Zhihao Liu, Po-Ru Loh and Po-Shen Loh |
| 5 | HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE | David J. Gaebler, Jason Murcko and Andrew G. Niedermaier |
RESULTS FROM the 2002 COMETITION
Winner list from here.
Rank
School
Team Members (in alphabetical order)
1
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Gabriel D. Carroll, George Lee, Jr., and Alexander B. Schwartz
2
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Stefan L. Hornet, Mihai Manea, and Radu H. Mihaescu
3 DUKE UNIVERSITY
David G. Arthur, Oaz Nir, and Melanie E. Wood
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
Boris Bukh, James M. Merryfield, and Austin W. Shapiro
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STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Chee Hau Tan, Paul A. Valiant, and Daniel Wright
Results from the 2001 Competition
Winner list from www.unl.edu :
Rank School Team Members (in alphabetical order)
1 Harvard University Gabriel D. Carroll, George Lee, Jr., and Alexander B. Schwartz 2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Reid W. Barton, Abhinav Kumar, and Pavlo Pylyavskyy 3 Duke University David G. Arthur, Nathan G. Curtis, and Kevin D. Lacker 4 University of California, Berkeley Maksim I. Maydanskiy, James M. Merryfield, and Austin W. Shapiro 5 Stanford University Kenneth K. Easwaran, Paul A. Valiant, and David T. Vickrey
Results from the 2000 competition
Winnerlist from www.unl.edu :
Rank School Team Members (in alphabetical order)
1 Duke University John J. Clyde, Jonathan G. Curtis, and Kevin D. Lacker
2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Aram W. Harrow, Abhinav Kumar, and Ivan Petrakiev
3 Harvard University Lukasz Fidkowski, Davesh Maulik, and Christopher C. Mihelich
4 California Institute of Technology Kevin P. Costello, Christopher M. Hirata, and Michael Shulman
5 University of Toronto Jimmy Chui, Pavel T. Gyrya, and Pompiliu Manuel Zamfir
First place teams
A list of first place teams can be found
here.
The individual Putnam fellows since 1938 can be found
on this website.
The Harvard team won 25 times in the 65 competitions so far:
- 7th,5/24/47
- 9th,3/26/49
- 13th,3/23/53
- 15th,3/5/55
- 16th,3/3/56
- 17th,3/2/57
- 19th,11/22/58
- 26th,11/20/65
- 27th,11/19/66
- 43rd,12/4/82
- 46th,12/7/85
- 47th,12/6/86
- 48th,12/5/87
- 49th,12/3/88
- 50th,12/2/89
- 51st,12/1/90
- 52nd,12/7/91
- 53rd,12/5/92
- 55th,12/3/94
- 56th,12/2/95
- 58th,12/6/97
- 59th,12/5/98
- 62th,12/1/01
- 63th,12/7/02
- 66th,12/3/05
Statistics starting 1938:
Top five students (as of 2005 competition)
Harvard 51
MIT 36
Caltech 28
Princeton 24
Waterloo 17
Toronto 16
Washington University in St. Louis, Duke, Yale 11
Chicago 10
Cornell, UC Berkeley 9
Brooklyn College, Michigan State, City College of New York, Stanford 5
Case Western Reserve, Columbia, Michigan, Rice 4
Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, UC Davis, Queen's, Carnegie Mellon
(formerly Carnegie Institute of Technology), UPenn 3
Dartmouth, Harvey Mudd, Maryland, College Park, UCLA, University of
British Columbia 2
Cooper Union, Illinois Institute of Technology, Kansas, Kenyon, McGill,
Miami University, Mississippi Woman's College, New York University,
Oberlin, Swarthmore, University of Manitoba 1
First Place Teams (as of 2005 competition)
25 Harvard
9 Caltech
5 MIT
4 Washington University in St. Louis
3 Brooklyn College, Duke, Michigan State, Toronto
2 Cornell, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, Waterloo
1 UC Berkeley, UC Davis, Case Western Reserve, Chicago, Queen's
Source
| Rank | School | Team Members (in alphabetical order) |
| 1 |
HARVARD UNIVERSITY | Gabriel D. Carroll, George Lee, Jr., and Alexander B. Schwartz |
| 2 | PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | Stefan L. Hornet, Mihai Manea, and Radu H. Mihaescu |
| 3 | DUKE UNIVERSITY | David G. Arthur, Oaz Nir, and Melanie E. Wood |
| 4 | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY | Boris Bukh, James M. Merryfield, and Austin W. Shapiro |
| 5 | STANFORD UNIVERSITY | Chee Hau Tan, Paul A. Valiant, and Daniel Wright |
| Rank | School | Team Members (in alphabetical order) | |
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| 1 | Harvard University | Gabriel D. Carroll, George Lee, Jr., and Alexander B. Schwartz | |
| 2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Reid W. Barton, Abhinav Kumar, and Pavlo Pylyavskyy | |
| 3 | Duke University | David G. Arthur, Nathan G. Curtis, and Kevin D. Lacker | |
| 4 | University of California, Berkeley | Maksim I. Maydanskiy, James M. Merryfield, and Austin W. Shapiro | |
| 5 | Stanford University | Kenneth K. Easwaran, Paul A. Valiant, and David T. Vickrey |
| Rank | School | Team Members (in alphabetical order) |
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| 1 | Duke University | John J. Clyde, Jonathan G. Curtis, and Kevin D. Lacker |
| 2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Aram W. Harrow, Abhinav Kumar, and Ivan Petrakiev |
| 3 | Harvard University | Lukasz Fidkowski, Davesh Maulik, and Christopher C. Mihelich |
| 4 | California Institute of Technology | Kevin P. Costello, Christopher M. Hirata, and Michael Shulman |
| 5 | University of Toronto | Jimmy Chui, Pavel T. Gyrya, and Pompiliu Manuel Zamfir |
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Statistics starting 1938:
Top five students (as of 2005 competition)
Harvard 51 MIT 36 Caltech 28 Princeton 24 Waterloo 17 Toronto 16 Washington University in St. Louis, Duke, Yale 11 Chicago 10 Cornell, UC Berkeley 9 Brooklyn College, Michigan State, City College of New York, Stanford 5 Case Western Reserve, Columbia, Michigan, Rice 4 Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, UC Davis, Queen's, Carnegie Mellon (formerly Carnegie Institute of Technology), UPenn 3 Dartmouth, Harvey Mudd, Maryland, College Park, UCLA, University of British Columbia 2 Cooper Union, Illinois Institute of Technology, Kansas, Kenyon, McGill, Miami University, Mississippi Woman's College, New York University, Oberlin, Swarthmore, University of Manitoba 1 |
First Place Teams (as of 2005 competition)
25 Harvard 9 Caltech 5 MIT 4 Washington University in St. Louis 3 Brooklyn College, Duke, Michigan State, Toronto 2 Cornell, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, Waterloo 1 UC Berkeley, UC Davis, Case Western Reserve, Chicago, Queen'sSource |