University of South Carolina
The William Lowell Putnam Examination

The 2006 Putnam exam is scheduled for Saturday, December 2, 2006.
If you are interested in taking it, see David Sumner for more information and to get your name on the list.

Some solutions to the 2005 Putnam Exam (and past exams) can be found here.

On the 2002 Putnam Exam we ranked 63rd nationally and the ranking participants were:
Matt Elder            92
Eric Mueller       246
Jonathan Mason 314

We did great on the 2000 Putnam exam!
Our team ranked 33rd nationally.

There were 322 schools with participating teams ( 434 institutions represented overall

The following four students ranked among the top 500 in the nation.

Also, Aseem Sood tied for position 560.
This is the best team performance we have ever had.

Eventually, I will put up a list of all known ranking Putnam participants since 1971.

For details about the nature of the exam go to the Putnam Exam's home page.

The problems and solutions to the Putnam Exams appear annually in the American Mathematical Monthly and the Mathematics Magazine. You may check the relevant issues here

Also solutions to the most recent Putnam Exam can be readily found on the sci.math newsgroup shortly after the exam is over.

 

Links to Problems and Solutions

Previous exams in pdf and postscript format(includes the 2000 exam) (Patrick Fitzsimmons)

All the exams (in slightly modified form) and solutions .(by John Scholes)

Here are some links to solutions by Dave Rusin.

The 1993 Exam

The 1994 Exam (and also here as well - Daniel J. Berstein)

The 1995 Exam

The 1996 Exam

The 1997 Exam

The 1998 Exam

The 1999 Exam (and also here as well - G. Eric Moorhouse)

The 2000 Exam


Many Problems and Solutions

 

Links To Other Resources

For some tips.

A bunch of problem-solving related books.

Some information about the exam along with some ‘practice exams’

MATHPro Online has an Index to Journal and Contest Problems with an electronically searchable database.

Info on the Mathematical Olympiad and some problems.

A lot of Putnam and other contest materials

A potentially useful index to problems from various journals.