Mathematics Contests
Two Contest Exams are given in the Mathematics Department each year
- The Albert A. Bennett Calculus Prize Exam
- The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition.
The Albert A. Bennett Calculus Prize Exam
For students in M408D, M408M or M427L-AP (see eligibility below).
Saturday, December 8, 2012
1:00 p.m.—3:00 p.m
RLM 5.104
Eligibility: All undergraduates at U.T. Austin completing M408D, M408M or M427L-AP. Students who have credit or transfer credit for an equivalent course or other course for which one of these is a prerequisite are not eligible. (This is checked before the prizes are awarded.)
Prizes
First Place:
$300
Second Place:
$200
Third Place:
$100
- The Contests Committee reserves the right to award some or none of these prizes in exceptional circumstances.
- For further details contact Dave Rusin (RLM 9.140, 471-6112, rusin@math).
- Exam questions from previous semesters
- No sign-up is necessary, but bring a U.T. student I.D. to the exam. (You will be asked for you UT EID)
Here are the Spring 2010 Bennett Exam Problems and Solutions.
The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition
The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition is given once each year (usually the first Saturday in December). It is given at universities across the U.S. and Canada to undergraduates - a student may take this exam at most 4 times. There are many web pages devoted to information about the exam (a search on Yahoo turned up over 400 such pages.) Copies of recent exams in various formats (and solutions) can be found at http://www.unl.edu/amc/ a-activities/a7-problems/putnam/. (See also http://www.math.niu.edu/~rusin/problems-math/.)
Pizza and Problem Solving
Thursday, April 19, 6:00pm
RLM 10.176
Topic: Derivatives and differential equations.
Room: TBA
Time: TBA