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 exam has been offered annually since 1938 and is administered by the Mathematical Association of America. Mathematics competitions or mathematical olympiads are competitive events where participants write a mathematics test. ... In some educational systems, undergraduate education is post-secondary education up to the level of a Bachelors degree. ... It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. ... Freshman and Sophomore redirect here. ... Scholarship is the pursuit of academic research, whether in the arts and humanities or sciences, and in all such fields means deep mastery of a subject, often through study at institutions of higher education. ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Born Elizabeth Lowell Putnam in Brookline, MA in the late 19th century to parents Augustus Lowell of the privileged Lowell family of Boston. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... Year 1882 (MDCCCLXXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar. ... Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) is a professional society that focuses on undergraduate mathematics education. ...

The competition today

The Putnam competition now takes place on the first Saturday in December, and consists of two three-hour sittings separated by a lunch break. Each competitor attempts to solve twelve problems, which can typically be solved with only basic knowledge of college mathematics but which require extensive creative thinking.

Each of the twelve questions is worth 10 points, and the most frequent scores above zero are 10 points, for a complete solution; 9 points, for a nearly complete solution; and 1 point, for the beginnings of a solution. In earlier years, the twelve questions were worth one point each, with absolutely no partial credit given. 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 there have been only three perfect scores as of 2005. In 2003, of the 3615 students taking the exam, 1024 (28%) scored 10 or more points, and 42 points was sufficient to make the top 102. In probability theory and statistics, a median is a number dividing the higher half of a sample, a population, or a probability distribution from the lower half. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

At a participating college, as many students who wish to take part in the exam may enter; but the school's official team consists of three individuals whom it designates in advance. Team scoring is analogous to that used in cross-country running; a team's score is the sum of the ranks of its three team members, with the lowest team score winning. It is entirely possible, even commonplace at some institutions, for the eventual results to show that the "wrong" team was picked — i.e., that some students not on the official team outscored an official team member. The top five teams win $25,000, $20,000, $15,000, $10,000, and $5,000, respectively, with $1,000, $800, $600, $400, and $200 for team members.

The top five individual scorers are named Putnam Fellows and awarded $2,500. One of them is also awarded the William Lowell Putnam Prize Scholarship of $12,000 plus tuition for graduate study at Harvard University. Sixth through 15th place individuals receive $1,000 and the next ten receive $250. The names of the top 100 students are published in American Mathematical Monthly. Tuition means instruction, teaching or a fee charged for educational instruction especially at a formal institution of learning. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) , is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. One of the eight Ivies, it was founded in 1636. ... The American Mathematical Monthly is a mathematical journal published 10 times each year by the Mathematical Association of America since 1894. ...

The competition is held on the first Saturday in December, most recently December 2 in 2006. That year, the examination was taken by 3640 students, with 63% scoring 0. December 2 is the 336th day (337th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...

Many contestants have gone on to become distinguished researchers in mathematics and other fields, including three Fields Medalists and two Nobel Prize winners in Physics. The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union, a meeting that takes place every four years. ... The Nobel Prizes (Swedish: ) are awards in physics, chemistry, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine. ...

Winners

Top-scoring teams

During First competition in 1938, Teams were not ranked. Starting with the Second competition in 1939, competing Teams have been ranked.

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Teams ranked by historical performance

Below is a table of teams by the number of appearances in the top five and number of titles. Where multiple teams have the same number of appearances in the top five, they are ranked by number of championships, and then listed in alphabetical order.

While some may see this as a rough gauge of the level of the undergraduate Mathematical programs at various institutions, a number of factors militate against this assumption:

• Some institutions have participated for many years while others are relative latecomers.
• Some university teams actively train for the competition with faculty help and reference to past years' questions; at others, there is a student club which practices — but at many institutions, there is no formal preparation at all.
• As described earlier in this article, it is possible for the official members of a team to not score as highly as others from the same university who have not been designated members of the official team.
• Finally, and most importantly, "contest math" is seen by many as quite different from original mathematical research — the primary aim of most university math departments — and is not necessarily the best predictor of it.

The following table lists Teams finishing in Top Five (as of 2005 competition): 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The following table lists Teams with First place finishes (as of 2005 competition): Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) , is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. One of the eight Ivies, it was founded in 1636. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private, coeducational research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... The California Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Caltech)[1] is a private, coeducational university located in Pasadena, California, in the United States. ... Princeton University is a coeducational private university located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States of America. ... The University of Toronto (U of T) is a coeducational public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... 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The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (UM or U of M) is a coeducational public research university in the U.S. state of Michigan. ... Lovett Hall William Marsh Rice University, commonly called Rice University and opened in 1912 as The William Marsh Rice Institute for the Advancement of Letters, Science and Art, is a private, comprehensive research university located in Houston, Texas near the Museum District and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center. ... Polytechnic University (Poly), located in the Borough of Brooklyn in New York City, is the United States second oldest private technology university, having been founded in 1854. ... The University of California, Davis, commonly known as UC Davis, is one of the ten campuses of the University of California, and was established as the University Farm in 1905. ... Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ... The Carnegie Institute of Technology (Carnegie Tech), the predecessor to Carnegie Mellon University, was founded in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools. ... Queens University, generally referred to simply as Queens, is a coeducational, non-sectarian, research-intensive university located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. ... This article is about the private university in Philadelphia. ... The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a Canadian public university with its main campus located at Point Grey in the unincorporated Electoral Area A, immediately west of Vancouver, British Columbia. ... Dartmouth College is a private academic institution in Hanover, New Hampshire, in the United States. ... Harvey Mudd College is a highly selective, private college of science, engineering, and mathematics, located in Claremont, California. ... The University of Maryland, College Park (also known as UM, UMD, or UMCP) is a public university located in the city of College Park, in Prince Georges County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C., in the United States. ... The University of California, Los Angeles, generally known as UCLA, is a public university whose main campus is located in the affluent Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. ... The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art is a privately funded college in Lower Manhattan of New York City. ... State Street Village, S.R. Crown Hall, Armour Main Building Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) is a private Ph. ... The University of Kansas (often referred to as KU) is an institution of higher learning located in Lawrence, Kansas. ... Kenyon College is a private liberal arts college in Gambier, Ohio, founded in 1824 by Bishop Philander Chase of the The Episcopal Church, in parallel with the Bexley Hall seminary. ... The University of Manitoba is the largest university of the province of Manitoba, most comprehensive and only research-intensive post-secondary educational institution. ... McGill University is a publicly funded, non-denominational, co-educational research university located in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ... Miami University (colloquially and incorrectly referred to as Miami of Ohio) is a selective American public university founded in 1809 in the university town Oxford, Ohio. ... William Carey College is a college in Mississippi, United States. ... New York University (NYU) is a major research university in New York City. ... Oberlin College is a small, selective liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio, in the United States. ... Swarthmore College is a private, independent, liberal arts college in the United States with an enrollment of about 1,450 students. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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Putnam Fellows

Since the first competition, the top five (or six, in case of a tie) scorers on the examination have been named Putnam Fellows. Within the top five, Putnam fellows are not ranked. Students are not allowed to participate in Putnam Competition more than four times. For example, if a high school senior chooses to officially participate, he/she effectively chooses to forfeit one of his/her years of eligibility in college (see Gabriel D. Carroll). This makes it even more of a unique feat to become Putnam fellow four times. In the history of Competition, only seven students have been Putnam fellows four times with fifteen others winning the award three times. The following table lists these students: Gabriel D. Carroll is an award winning student in Mathematics, earning an undergraduate degree at Harvard. ...

The following table lists all Putnam fellows from 1938 to present, with the years they placed in the top five. Don Coppersmith is a cryptographer and mathematician. ... Arthur Rubin (1956-) is an American mathematician who has earned a place among the five top ranked competitors (who are themselves not ranked against each other) in the William Lowell Putnam Competition four times (1970-73), a feat matched by only five others (Don Coppersmith (1968-71), Bjorn M. Poonen... Purdue University (Purdue) is a land-grant, public university in West Lafayette, Indiana, United States. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Ravi Vakil. ... Gabriel D. Carroll is an award winning student in Mathematics, earning an undergraduate degree at Harvard. ... Reid W. Barton is currently a graduate student at Harvard University in Mathematics, and one of the all time greatest performers in the International science olympiads. ... Andrew Mattei Gleason is an American mathematician. ... Noam D. Elkies (born 1966 in New York City) is a mathematician. ... Ciprian Manolescu (b. ...

George Whitelaw Mackey is an American mathematician, working mainly in the fields of representation theory and group actions, and related parts of functional analysis. ... Irving Kaplansky (March 22, 1917) is a Canada mathematician. ... The University of Saint Thomas (also known as UST or simply St. ... Richard Feynman Richard Phillips Feynman (May 11, 1918–February 15, 1988) (surname pronounced FINE-man) was one of the most influential American physicists of the 20th century, expanding greatly the theory of quantum electrodynamics. ... This biographical article needs to be wikified. ...   The George Washington University (GWU), or informally, G.W., is a private, coeducational, non-sectarian university located in Washington, D.C.. Founded in 1821 as the Columbian College on land provided by President George Washington, the university has since developed into a leading educational and research institution. ... Andrew Mattei Gleason is an American mathematician. ... Eugenio Calabi is a mathematician and professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in differential geometry, partial differential equations and their applications. ... Felix E. Browder (1927-) is a United States mathematician. ... The University of Alberta (U of A) is a public coeducational research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. ... Robert L. Mills (April 15, 1927 - October 27, 1999) was a physicist, specializing in quantum field theory, the theory of alloys, and many-body theory. ... John Willard Milnor (b. ... Arthur P. Dempster is a Professor Emeritus in the Harvard University Department of Statistics. ... Washington Avenue Bridge at night The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, almost always abbreviated U of M, and sometimes referred to as The U by locals, is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system. ... James Daniel BJ Bjorken is an American theoretical physicst. ... Kenneth Geddes Wilson (born June 8, 1936) is an American physicist. ... David Bryant Mumford (born 11 June 1937) is an American mathematician known for distinguished work in algebraic geometry, and then for research into vision and pattern theory. ... Richard Mansfield Dudley is Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ... San Diego State University (SDSU), founded in 1897, is the largest and oldest higher education facility in the greater San Diego area, and is part of the California State University system. ... Robin Hartshorne (born 1938) is an American mathematician. ... Daniel Quillen (born June 21, 1940) is an American mathematician, a Fields Medallist, and the current Waynflete Professor of Pure Mathematics at Magdalen College, Oxford. ... Stephen L. Adler (b. ... Melvin Hochster is a leading American mathematician, regarded as perhaps the leading practioner in the field of commutative algebra, which provides the setting for such highly applicable notions as Gröbner bases. ... Elwyn Ralph Berlekamp is professor of mathematics at University of California, Berkeley. ... Joel Spencer (born April 20, 1946) is an American mathematician. ... The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public, coeducational, research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. ... Roger Evans Howe is the William R. Kenan Jr. ... University of Detroit Mercy (4001 W. McNichols Rd. ... 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Arthur Rubin (1956-) is an American mathematician who has earned a place among the five top ranked competitors (who are themselves not ranked against each other) in the William Lowell Putnam Competition four times (1970-73), a feat matched by only five others (Don Coppersmith (1968-71), Bjorn M. Poonen... Reed College is a liberal arts college located in Portland, Oregon in the Eastmoreland neighborhood. ... Wesleyan University, founded in 1831, is a private, elite[1] liberal arts university in Middletown, Connecticut. ... The architectural centerpiece of the Union campus, the Nott Memorial, is named after the colleges president from 1804-1866, Eliphalet Nott. ... Karl Rubin is currently (2006) the Thorp Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Irvine. ... Armstrong Atlantic State University, sometimes abbreviated AASU, is a state university located in Savannah, Georgia. ... Paul Vojta is an American mathematician, known for his work in number theory on diophantine geometry and diophantine approximation. ... Peter Shor (born August 14, 1959) is an American theoretical computer scientist most famous for his work on quantum computation, in particular for devising a quantum algorithm for factoring exponentially faster than the best currently-known algorithm running on a classical computer (see Shors algorithm). ... The University of Virginia (also called U.Va. ... Miller Smith Puckette is the associate director of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts as well as a faculty member at the University of California, San Diego, where he has been since 1994. ... Noam D. Elkies (born 1966 in New York City) is a mathematician. ... Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (abbreviated RHIT), formerly Rose Polytechnic Institute, is a small, private, non-sectarian college specializing in teaching engineering, mathematics, and science. ... Williams College is a private, coeducational, highly selective (18% admission rate in 2006) liberal arts college located in Williamstown, Massachusetts. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Ravi Vakil. ... The University of Missouri–Rolla (abbreviated UMR) is an institution of higher learning located in Rolla, Missouri and part of the University of Missouri System. ... Adam Logan (1975-) is a research mathematician and a top Canadian Scrabble player who was born in Kingston, ON. He won the World Scrabble Championship in 2005, beating Pakorn Nemitrmansuk of Thailand 3-0 in the final. ... Wei-Hwa Huang (黃煒華, born August 4, 1975) is an award-winning American puzzler and member of the US Team for the World Puzzle Federation. ... The University of Pittsburgh, commonly referred to as Pitt, is a state-related, doctoral/research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ... Ciprian Manolescu (b. ... Simon Fraser University (SFU) is located in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, part of the metropolitan area of Vancouver, British Columbia. ... Abhinav Kumar (born 1980) is a mathematician, who works in algebraic geometry and number theory. ... Gabriel D. Carroll is an award winning student in Mathematics, earning an undergraduate degree at Harvard. ... The City University of New York (CUNY; acronym: IPA pronunciation: ), is the public university system of New York City. ... Reid W. Barton is currently a graduate student at Harvard University in Mathematics, and one of the all time greatest performers in the International science olympiads. ... Melanie Eggers Wood (Matchett), born 1981 in Indianapolis, Indiana, is a graduate student mathematician currently studying at Princeton University. ...

Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Award winners

Since 1992, the Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Award has been available to be awarded to a female participant with a high score.  It is not awarded every year.  Names in bold have been Putnam Fellows at least once; the year(s) in which they were Fellows are in bold as well.

Melanie Eggers Wood (Matchett), born 1981 in Indianapolis, Indiana, is a graduate student mathematician currently studying at Princeton University. ...

External links

• William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition official site
• William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition results
• William Lowell Putnam Competition problems, solutions, and results archive
• Archive of Putnam Problems and Student Solutions
• The Harvard-United States Military Academy Mathematics Competition of 1933: Genesis of the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition
• Searchable data base for information about careers of Putnam Fellows
• A comprehensive history of the Putnam competition.