Two Contest Exams are given in the Mathematics Department each year

1. The Albert A. Bennett Calculus Prize Exam
   
2. The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition.

Eligibility:  All undergraduates at U.T. Austin completing M408D, M408M, or the Advanced Placement Section of M427L this semester (Fall 2008). 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.)


A copy of a recent exam is available here (pdf).

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

During the Fall 2008 term, we will have practice sessions for the Putnam exam every  Tuesdays 5-6:30pm in RLM 10.176. Pizza will be served around 5:45pm.  For more information, contact Lorenzo Sadun (Office: RLM 9.114.)