{"id":515,"date":"2014-02-26T17:59:20","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T17:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/?p=515"},"modified":"2014-02-26T17:59:59","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T17:59:59","slug":"ufv-putnam-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2014\/02\/26\/ufv-putnam-club\/","title":{"rendered":"UFV Putnam Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>Information taken from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/math\/putnam-club\/\" target=\"_blank\">Math and Statistics website.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>The\u00a0Putnam Competition<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition<\/strong>, hosted by the Mathematical Association of America, is an annual math contest written by undergraduate students across North America.\u00a0 The top individual prize is $2500 and almost certainly a full scholarship for grad school at any university in the world.\u00a0 The top team prize is $25000 for the winning university.<\/p>\n<p>For more info about the contest and its history, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/math.scu.edu\/putnam\/\">Official Contest page<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Lowell_Putnam_Mathematical_Competition\">Wikipedia page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The UFV Putnam Club<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The 2013 UFV Putnam Club met on Tuesdays,\u00a0Sept 17 &#8211; Dec 3 inclusive in room A 402.<\/strong>\u00a0The 2013 Putnam competition\u00a0will take place\u00a0on Saturday, December 7, 8 AM &#8211; 4 PM.<\/p>\n<p>For more info about the UFV Putnam Club meetings, and\/or to register as a participant in the 2013 competition, contact Ian Affleck at <a href=\"mailto:ian.affleck@ufv.ca\">ian.affleck@ufv.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>2012 UFV Putnam Team<\/strong> was:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brendan Bulthuis (4th year math major)<\/li>\n<li>Aaron Wijngaarden(3rd year math major)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are the competition questions that they were faced with:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/media\/assets\/mathematics\/putnam-club\/Putnam-2012A.PDF\" target=\"_blank\">Part A<\/a> , <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/media\/assets\/mathematics\/putnam-club\/Putnam-2012B.PDF\" target=\"_blank\">Part B<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>2011 UFV Putnam Team<\/strong> was:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sung il Anh (Grade 9, Yale Secondary School)<\/li>\n<li>Christopher Dugdale (4th year math major)<\/li>\n<li>Emily Scoular (2nd year math major)<\/li>\n<li>Kenneth Vanderlinde (3rd year math major)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are the competition questions that they were faced with:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/media\/assets\/mathematics\/putnam-club\/Putnam-2011A.PDF\" target=\"_blank\">Part A<\/a> , <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/media\/assets\/mathematics\/putnam-club\/Putnam-2011B.PDF\" target=\"_blank\">Part B<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>2010 UFV Putnam Team<\/strong> was:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Evan Cook (2nd year physics major)<\/li>\n<li>Slava Minin (4th year computing science major)<\/li>\n<li>Kenneth Vanderlinde (2nd year math major)<\/li>\n<li>Matthew Wiersma (4th year math major)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Practice Problems<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An archive of some previous problems and solutions can be found here:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Art of Problem Solving Putnam Archive\" href=\"http:\/\/www.artofproblemsolving.com\/Forum\/viewforum.php?f=80\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.artofproblemsolving.com\/Forum\/viewforum.php?f=80<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Books with previous Putnam problems and solutions are available here:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Putnam Problems Books\" href=\"http:\/\/www.artofproblemsolving.com\/Store\/contests.php?contest=putnam\">http:\/\/www.artofproblemsolving.com\/Store\/contests.php?contest=putnam<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The following two PDF documents contain some introductory problems, and many of the easier Putnam problems from recent years.\u00a0 They are a good place to start looking for friendly and do-able problems.\u00a0 (Thanks to Chris Dugdale for tracking down these documents.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/media\/assets\/mathematics\/putnam-club\/easy_putnam_problems.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Easy Putnam Problems<\/a>\u00a0(Relatively speaking, that is)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/media\/assets\/mathematics\/putnam-club\/putnam_training_problems.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Putnam Training Problems 2005<\/a><br \/>\nThis file is awesome.\u00a0 Following several dozen problems which are categorized by solution style, there are short hints for each, then solutions for each.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Course Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The following files were compiled by Anna Kuczynska as course notes for the first three main topics that we covered in Fall 2010: The Principle of Mathematical Induction, The Pigeonhole Principle, and Inequalities.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/media\/assets\/mathematics\/putnam-club\/Definition+of+Induction.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Definition of the Principle of Mathematical Induction<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/media\/assets\/mathematics\/putnam-club\/Pigeonhole+Principle.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Pigeonhole Principle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/media\/assets\/mathematics\/putnam-club\/Pigeon+Problems.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Pigeonhole Principle Practice Problems<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/media\/assets\/mathematics\/putnam-club\/Pigeonhole+Problems.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Pigeonhole+Problems.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/media\/assets\/mathematics\/putnam-club\/Power+Mean+Inequality.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Power Mean Inequality<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/media\/assets\/mathematics\/putnam-club\/Famous+Inequalities.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Famous Inequalities<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information taken from the Math and Statistics website. The\u00a0Putnam Competition The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, hosted by the Mathematical Association of America, is an annual math contest written by undergraduate students across North America.\u00a0 The top individual prize is $2500 and almost certainly a full scholarship for grad school at any university in the &#8230; <a title=\"UFV Putnam Club\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2014\/02\/26\/ufv-putnam-club\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[79,80,81],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathstats","tag-math-competition","tag-math-contest","tag-putnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}