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	William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The competition began in 1938 and is designed to stimulate a healthful rivalry in mathematical studies in the colleges and universities of the United States and Canada.
		The first competition supported by this fund was in the field of English and a few years later a second experimental competition was held, this time in mathematics between two institutions.
		Putnam's death in 1935 that the examination assumed its present form and was placed under the administration of the Mathematical Association of America.
	math.pepperdine.edu /putnam.html (829 words)

	Christopher Small's Putnam Page
		Putnam proposed the idea of a scholastic competition between colleges, noting that the efforts of individual students were dedicated to personal academic success rather than to college itself.
		The Putnam competition is held here at the University of Waterloo (and elsewhere) on the first Saturday in December of each year.
		The competition is open to any student enrolled full time in an undergraduate program, provided he or she has not written the competition four times or more in previous years.
	www.stats.uwaterloo.ca /~cgsmall/comp.html (658 words)

	William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, often abbreviated to Putnam Competition, is an annual mathematics competition for undergraduate college students, awarding scholarships and cash prizes ranging from $250 to $2,500 for the top students and $5,000 to $25,000 for the top schools.
		The competition was funded in 1927 by Elizabeth Lowell Putnam in memory of her husband William Lowell Putnam (Harvard 1882), who while alive was an advocate of intercollegiate intellectual competition.
		The examination is considered to be very difficult: it is typically attempted by students specializing in mathematics, but the median score is usually one or two points out of 120 possible, and perfect scores are exceptionally rare.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Lowell_Putnam_Mathematical_Competition (1010 words)

	Putnam Competition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition is an annual student competition sponsored by the Mathematical Association of America, written on the first Saturday of December every year.
		The Putnam is the most prestigous and challenging mathematical competition at the undergraduate level.
		The Putnam competition is open to all full-time undergraduate students.
	www.math.uvic.ca /faculty/sourour/competitions/putnam.html (401 words)

	The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition
		The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, the most famous North American college-level math contest, is administered each year on the first Saturday of December.
		The trustees of the Putnam Fund also award at Harvard University the annual William Lowell Putnam Prize Scholarship to one of the Putnam Fellows.
		The Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize is awarded periodically to a woman whose performance on the Competition has been deemed particularly meritorious.
	users.etown.edu /d/doytchinovb/putnam (596 words)

	William Lowell Putnam Competition
		The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition is an annual contest for college students established in 1938 in memory of its namesake.
		The Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize was established in 1992 to be "awarded periodically to a woman whose performance on the Competition has been deemed particularly meritorious".
		Recent winners of the Elizabeth Lowell Putnam prize have received $1,000.
	www.maa.org /awards/putnam.html (298 words)

	William Lowell Putnam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Even before his marriage to Percival Lowell's sister, Elizabeth, in 1888, Putnam (who was also Percival's third cousin) handled a large part of the Lowell family's finances, thus leaving Augustus Lowell and Percival free to pursue their interests in science and culture.
		Also a successful lawyer, Putnam eventually served as the primary lawyer for both Percival Lowell and the Lowell Observatory as well as working as a partner at the well-regarded law firm of Putnam, Putnam and Bell.
		Putnam, however, had to make the final decision on the matter and he was the one to tell See that he had been dismissed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Lowell_Putnam (537 words)

	William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition
		The next competition was in fact a mathematics competition in 1933 between Harvard and West Point Juniors.
		The third competition was won by the University of Toronto, Brooklyn College won the fourth, and the University of Toronto the fifth which was in 1942.
		The 1946 competition was administered by Harvard (actually by Garrett Birkhoff) and the competition was held on 1 June.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Extras/Putnam_competition.html (1262 words)

	Problem Solving and the Putnam Competition
		The Putnam Exam (officially known as the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition) is a very challenging, six-hour mathematics exam taken by about 3,600 undergraduates in the United States and Canada each year.
		William Lowell Putnam, a graduate of Harvard in the class of 1882, believed strongly in the value of academic competitions.
		The Virginia Tech Regional Mathematics Competition is a Putnam-style competition.
	www.math.hmc.edu /putnam (858 words)

	A Guide to the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition Problems and Solutions: 1938-1964 Records, 1938-1980
		The original idea of the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition was expressed by William Lowell Putnam in 1921, and funded by a trust in Mrs.
		The Competition is held between teams from North American colleges, and is administered by the Mathematical Association of America.
		In 1980, the Mathematical Association of America published The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition Problems and Solutions: 1938-1964, by Andrew M. Gleason, Robert E. Greenwood, and L.M. Kelly, which includes the problems, solutions, and commentaries, together with material on the history of the Competitions.
	www.lib.utexas.edu /taro/utcah/00198/00198-P.html (300 words)

	Putnam Mathematical Competition
		The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition began in 1938 and is designed to stimulate a healthful rivalry in mathematical studies in the colleges and universities of the United States and Canada.
		Nearly 4,000 contestants from over 500 colleges and universities participate in the Putnam Competition, which is sponsored by the Mathematical Association of America.
		Kansas State University contestants participate individually in the Putnam Competition on the first Saturday in December in Cardwell Hall, with three of our individual contestants designated beforehand as the Kansas State Team.
	www.math.ksu.edu /main/events/ksucomp/putnam (270 words)

	Putnam Exam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Putnam Exam is a notoriously challenging exam consisting of 12 problems (6 in the morning session, 6 in the afternoon) which go beyond what is typically covered in a classroom.
		The competition is open only to regularly enrolled undergraduates in colleges & universities of the United States & Canada, who have not yet received a college degree.
		Click here for information about the original competition between Harvard and the US Military Academy at West Point in 1933 which was the genesis of the Putnam exam.
	www.skidmore.edu /academics/mcs/pages/putnam.htm (430 words)

	EWU \| William Lowell Putnam Math Contest
		The 67th annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition will be held on a Saturday in December.
		We will begin soon to prepare a team for the competition, please contact the Putnam Team Coordinator if you are interested.
		The first competition supported by this fund was in the field of English and a few years later a second experimental competition was held, this time in mathematics between two
	www.ewu.edu /x8069.xml?printer_friendly=1 (928 words)

	WILLIAM PUTNAM EXAM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		You'll notice from the announcement that the exam is not for the faint-of-heart, but we have had several students take it in the past, and they found it to be, well, let's say an interesting experience.
		The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition is a national contest in mathematical problem solving.
		The competition consists of two three-hour periods in which students work on 6 problems each period.
	www.angelo.edu /org/pme/willput.htm (276 words)

	Math H90
		Test problems in PS and in PDF and their solutions in PS and in PDF are available.
		Results of the Putnam exam on 12/04/04 can be found here.
		William Kahan, who usually teaches this course, has put together a great collection of notes and problems with solutions at his Math H90 website.
	www.cs.berkeley.edu /~oholtz/H90 (637 words)

	Sample Putnam Problems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		As an indication of the relative difficulty of these problems, the number of contestants (out of a total of 2407) who received full credit is given in parentheses.
		The Problem Archive of American Mathematics Competitions contains problems and solutions from recent Putnam competitions, the US Mathematical Olympiads, and the International Mathematical Olympiads, as well as links to other problem collections.
		Putnam problems and solutions are also published in the American Mathematical Monthly, the official journal of the Mathematial Association of America, usually in the October issues.
	www.math.uiuc.edu /~hildebr/putnam/putnamsample.html (407 words)

	Putnam Competition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Putnam Exam is a notoriously challenging exam consisting of 12 mind-numbing problems, 6 in the morning session and 6 in the afternoon.
		These problems cut across many areas of mathematics, and are designed to test "originality as well as technical competence," according to the announcement brochure.
		The Putnam is usually held on the first Saturday in December.
	ww2.lafayette.edu /~math/Gary/putnam.html (255 words)

	The Putnam Competition
		One Putnam rule is that people who already have a Bachelor's degree are not eligible to write the paper for marks (but last year one person with a Bachelor's wrote the paper unofficially at York).
		There is a lot more information about the Putnam in general, and exams and some solutions from past years, in publications such as The American Mathematical Monthly and Crux Mathematicorum.
		The Mathematical Association of America recently republished two of the older books in its series of books on the Putnam exam.
	www.math.yorku.ca /infinity/LinksAndCommunity/Putnam.html (496 words)

	Albion College Mathematical Society: Home
		On the first meeting, students will be introduced to the notion of the "elementary" solution to a problem and an outline will be given for the methods to be emphasized through the problems.
		The Fall Seminar: The problems are chosen to illustrate clever proofs using only high school mathematics; they are drawn from the LMMC and Math Challenge exams, problem-solving books, and problems taken from the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition.
		William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, articles and posed problems from the American Mathematical Monthly, problem-solving books, among many other sources.
	www.albion.edu /mathematicalsociety/Seminar.htm (724 words)

	Amazon.fr : William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition: Problems & Solutions: 1938-1964: Livres en anglais: Andrew ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Back by popular demand, the MAA is pleased to reissue this outstanding collection of problems and solutions from the Putnam Competitions covering the years 1938-1964.
		Problemists the world over, including all past and future Putnam Competitors, will revel in mastering the difficulties posed by this collection of problems from the first 25 William Lowell Putnam Competitions.
		The book concludes with four articles on the Putnam competition written by G. Birkhoff, L. Bush, L. Mordell, and L. Kelly which are reprinted from the "American Mathematical Monthly."
	amazon.fr /William-Lowell-Putnam-Mathematical-Competition/dp/0883854627 (296 words)

	Putnam training sessions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The competition is open only to registered undergraduates who have not yet received a college degree.
		An eligible undergraduate who was not registered may participate as an individual contestant by using a set of exam materials for an absent student.
		Feel free to drop by 4-102 or 3-102 to discuss any Putnam problems or practice exercises, or to explain your solutions (which is always a good idea).
	www.math.sunysb.edu /~timorin/putnam.html (162 words)

	The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition 2004 (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In the 2003 competition, 3615 individuals participated, representing 479 colleges and universities across Canada and the U.S. The Stanford team placed eleventh, and many individuals did very well.
		I'd especially recommend the collection of recent Putnams "The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition 1985-2000: Problems, Solutions, and Commentary", by Kiran Kedlaya, Bjorn Poonen, and myself.
		There are more good problems in the previous Putnam book, "The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition Problems and Solutions: 1965-1984", by Alexanderson, Klosinski, and Larson (look especially at those in the 1980's).
	math.stanford.edu.cob-web.org:8888 /~vakil/putnam04 (853 words)

	The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition 1985—2000 - Cambridge University Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		$65.00 (C) The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition is the premier undergraduate mathematical competition in North America.
		It is unlike the first two Putnam volumes and unlike virtually every other problem-based book, in that it places the problems in the context of important mathematical themes.
		In editing the solutions, the authors have kept a student audience in mind, explaining techniques that have relevance to more than the problem at hand, suggesting references for further reading, and mentioning related problems, some of which are unsolved.
	www.cambridge.org /us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=088385807X (185 words)

	Putnam Page, T.Matsumoto, Fall 2006
		The 67th Annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition will be held this year on Saturday, December 2, 2006.
		Similar in format and content to the Putnam competition, but the problems may be easier.
		Patrick J. Fitzsimmons' Putnam page Postscript, Adobe Acrobat, and dvi downloads of problem sets from the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition dating back to 1980.
	online.redwoods.cc.ca.us /instruct/tmatsumoto/putnam (524 words)

	Putnam Mathematical Competition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The competition consists of two exam papers, each of which contains 6 questions, and is open to regularly enrolled undergraduates who have not yet received a college degree.
		Putnam exam questions are challenging, but not impossible.
		Mathematical Problems Archive: in particular, the Putnam Archive.
	www.uwm.edu /Dept/Math/Events/putnamold.html (228 words)

	The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition - Cambridge University Press
		This book, the second of the Putnam Competition volumes, contains problems with their solutions for the years 1965-1984.
		Included is an essay on recollections of the first Putnam Exam by Herbert Robbins, as well as appendices listing the winning teams and students from 1965 through 1984.
		In 1980, the MAA published the first William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition book, covering the contest from 1938 to 1964.
	www.cambridge.org /uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0883854635 (274 words)

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