The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition 2007

The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition took place Saturday, December 1, 2007.

Introductory Poster

The Putnam competition is a fun event for people who enjoy solving interesting math problems. We meet weekly on Wednesdays at 7:00pm on the 4th floor of Herman Brown to solve and discuss problems in an informal atmosphere. Once in a while we also have a more formal lecture.

Probably the best way of getting better at problem solving is through practice.
The following is a list of resources (mostly links but also some books) containing a slew of problems from old Putnams as well as other competitions.
• AMC archive Old Putnam problems with solutions from 1985 til 2006.
• John Scholes Old Putnam problems from 1938 til 2003.
• Christopher Small A variety of training questions (including many non-Putnam problems)
• Harvard Putnam problem of the day (a new problem posted every day).
• Book: "The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition 1985-2000: Problems, Solutions, and Commentary" by Kiran Kedlaya, Bjorn Poonen, and Ravi Vakil.
• Book: "Problem Solving Through Problems" by Loren Larson.

The results are in! Congratulations to Ho Chung Siu and Shuai Ye who both finished in the top 100 out of 3753 competitors.
The team, made up of Andrew Altheimer, Jun Inoue and Kevin Spiro came in 19th out of 516 participating universities and colleges.
Congratulations to everyone. We hope you enjoyed the practices and the challenging problems. See you again next year.