The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition
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Princeton
(Saturday December 1, 2007 10 AM – 6 PM (2 hour lunch break))
Location: Princeton Campus (Fine Hall)
First Year: 1938
Number of Schools Participating: 508
Number of Participants: 3640
Participants Eligible: Undergraduates (No limit on number of participants)
Princeton Performance
| Legend |
| F: Individual Putnam Fellow (Top 5) |
| N1: Individual National Tier 1 |
| N2: Individual National Tier 2 |
| N3: Individual National Tier 3 |
| HM: Individual Honorable Mention |
Putnam 2007 - 2nd Place Team (1 F, 1 N1, 5 HM)
Putnam 2006 - Congratulations to Ana Caraiani, Andrei Negut, and Aaron C. Pixton for placing 1st and to all the Princeton students who participated (2 N1, 1 N2, 6 HM)
Putnam 2005 - 2nd Place Team (1 F, 1 N2, 5 HM)
Putnam 2004 - 2nd Place Team (2 F, 1 N1, 1 N2, 1 HM)
Putnam 2003 - Honorable Mention Team (1 F, 1 N1, 1 N2)
Putnam 2002 - 2nd Place Team (3 N1, 1 HM)
Putnam 2001 - (2 N1)
Putnam 2000 - Honorable Mention Team (1 N1, 1 HM)
Putnam 1999 - Honorable Mention Team (1 N2, 1 HM)
Putnam 1998 - 3rd Place Team (1 F, 1 N2, 2 HM)
Putnam 1997 - 3rd Place Team (2 N1, 1 N2, 5 HM)
Putnam 1996 - 2nd Place Team (1 N1, 2 N2, 1 N3, 2 HM)
Putnam 1995 - 5th Place Team (1 N3, 3 HM)
Putnam 1994 - 4th Place Team (1 F, 1 N2, 1 N3, 1 HM)
Putnam 1992 - 4th Place Team
Putnam 1989 - 2nd Place Team
Putnam 1988 - 2nd Place Team
Putnam 1987 - 2nd Place Team
Putnam 1985 - 2nd Place Team
Putnam 1983 - 4th Place Team
Putnam 1982 - 5th Place Team
Putnam 1981 - 2nd Place Team
Putnam 1979 - 3rd Place Team
Putnam 1977 - 4th Place Team
Putnam 1976 - 3rd Place Team
Putnam 1975 - 4th Place Team
Putnam 1973 - 5th Place Team
Putnam 1966 - 5th Place Team
Putnam 1965 - 4th Place Team
General
Description: This is the premier U.S. / Canada undergraduate math exam. 12 questions total, proof-based, testing:
“It will be assumed that the contestant has acquired a familiarity with the body of mathematical lore commonly discussed in mathematics clubs or in courses with such titles as 'survey of the foundations of mathematics.' It is also expected that the self-contained questions involving elementary concepts from group theory, set theory, graph theory, lattice theory, number theory, and cardinal arithmetic will not be entirely foreign to the contestant’s experience.” <Source>
Contact: gunning@math.Princeton.EDU
| Princeton's Putnam Fellows | |
| Name (Team) | Year (s) |
| John W. Milnor (Princeton) | 1949, 1950 |
| Richard G. Swan (Princeton) | 1952 |
| Angelos J. Tsirimokos (Princeton) | 1973 |
| Karl C. Rubin (Princeton) | 1974 |
| Mark R. Kleiman (Princeton) | 1978 |
| Charles H. Walter (Princeton) | 1979 |
| Gregg N. Patruno (Princeton) | 1983 |
| David J. Grabiner (Princeton) | 1986, 1987, 1988 |
| Joshua B. Fischman (Princeton) | 1991 |
| Adam Logan (Princeton) | 1992, 1993 |
| William R. Mann (Princeton) | 1994 |
| Ari M. Turner (Princeton) | 1998 |
| Ana Caraiani (Princeton) | 2003, 2004 |
| Aaron C. Pixton (Princeton) | 2004, 2005, 2007 |
| Statistics starting 1938: # of Years Team has placed in Top 5 (as of 2006 competition) <Source> |
| Harvard 53 |
| MIT 38 |
| Caltech 28 |
| Princeton 26 |
| Toronto 18 |
| Waterloo 17 |
| Duke 12 |
| Chicago, Washington University in St. Louis, Yale 11 |
| Cornell, UC Berkeley 9 |
| Stanford 6 |
| Brooklyn College, Michigan State, City College of New York 5 |
| Case Western Reserve, Columbia, Michigan, Rice 4 |
| Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, UC Davis, Queen's, Carnegie Mellon (formerly Carnegie Institute of Technology), UPenn 3 |
| Dartmouth, Harvey Mudd, Maryland, College Park, UCLA, University of British Columbia 2 |
| Cooper Union, Illinois Institute of Technology, Kansas, Kenyon, McGill, Miami University, Mississippi Woman's College, New York University, Oberlin, Swarthmore, University of Manitoba 1 |
External Links
2006 scores for teams and individuals
2005 scores for teams and individuals
Answers to this year's exam (and answers and results for previous years)
