Putnam Competition 2007 Announcement

The 68th annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition will be held on Saturday, December 1, 2007. The competition is a six-hour examination consisting of twelve challenging problems. It will begin at 8:30 a.m. There will be a 2-hour lunch break with lunch provided. Students from C.U. compete against each other as well as against students from other colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. In addition to national prizes, the C.U. Mathematics Department awards prizes of $150 for first place, $100 for second place, and $75 for third. Any regularly enrolled undergraduate who has not yet received a college degree and has not participated in the competition four times is eligible. Although some of the problems may contain concepts usually first encountered at the college level, this is not an examination to find out how much a student has learned but rather to find out how well he or she can handle challenging nonstandard problems.

For more information or to register to take this exam, see Prof. Kearnes in MATH 233 before 4:00 p.m. Friday, October 5. Best times are MTWF 12-2. An archive of problems and solutions for past Putnam Exams can be found at http://www.unl.edu/amc/a-activities/a7-problems/putnamindex.shtml