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[http://www.unl.edu/amc/a-activities/a7-problems/putnamindex.shtml Old exams and more information on the Putnam competition.] | [http://www.unl.edu/amc/a-activities/a7-problems/putnamindex.shtml Old exams and more information on the Putnam competition.] | ||
The Putnam Club will help you prepare for the exam by practicing on problems from previous years and other olympiad-style problems. | '''Fall 2012''' | ||
The Putnam Club will help you prepare for the exam by practicing on problems from previous years and other olympiad-style problems. This year, the Putnam Club will meet on Tuesdays from 5:30-7:00 PM, beginning on September 11. The room will be announced soon. After the first week, problem sets will appear here roughly one week before we discuss them, as well as being handed out in the previous week's meeting. It is not necessary to solve any problems to come to the meeting, but you are encouraged to spend time working on them. | |||
Partway through the semester we will hold a Mock Putnam exam to help us determine the official team members. Details will be announced at a later date. | |||
* September 11: Introduction | |||
'''Fall 2011''' | |||
* September 21: Pigeonhole Principle (Brian Rice) [[Media:PutnamProblemsSept21.pdf | Problems]] | * September 21: Pigeonhole Principle (Brian Rice) [[Media:PutnamProblemsSept21.pdf | Problems]] | ||
Revision as of 17:11, 31 August 2012
Putnam Club
Organizers: Andrei Caldararu, Uri Andrews, Brian Rice
The Putnam Exam, offered by the Mathematical Association of America, is the premier American math competition for undergraduate students. It is given each year on a Saturday in early December. The exam consists of 12 problems, 6 in the 3 hour morning session and 6 in the 3 hour afternoon session. Each problem is worth 10 points, so the maximum score is 120. National winners usually get around 100 points. The median score is generally around 0-2 points. This is a difficult exam with many interesting and fun problems.
Old exams and more information on the Putnam competition.
Fall 2012
The Putnam Club will help you prepare for the exam by practicing on problems from previous years and other olympiad-style problems. This year, the Putnam Club will meet on Tuesdays from 5:30-7:00 PM, beginning on September 11. The room will be announced soon. After the first week, problem sets will appear here roughly one week before we discuss them, as well as being handed out in the previous week's meeting. It is not necessary to solve any problems to come to the meeting, but you are encouraged to spend time working on them.
Partway through the semester we will hold a Mock Putnam exam to help us determine the official team members. Details will be announced at a later date.
- September 11: Introduction
Fall 2011
- September 21: Pigeonhole Principle (Brian Rice) Problems
- September 28: Introduction to Counting (Brian Rice) Problems
- October 5: Elementary Number Theory (Brian Rice) Problems, Problems (Hardcore)
- October 12: Polynomials (Brian Rice) Problems, Problems (Hardcore)
- October 19: A Grab Bag of Discrete Math (Brian Rice) Problems
- October 26: Calculus, Week 1 (Brian Rice) Problems
- November 2: Calculus, Week 2 (Brian Rice) Problems
- November 9: Linear and Abstract Algebra (Brian Rice) Problems
- November 16: Mock Putnam Problems, Solutions