The Lafayette Problem Group
The Lafayette Problem Group
The Lafayette Problem Group will meet weekly in 2007-08.
Write an email to Professor Gordon
if you are interested in participating!
CONGRATULATIONS!
Lafayette's team for the national William Lowell Putnam
Mathematics Exam placed 33rd out of
over 400 teams and over 500 colleges and universities
in the 2006 competition.
Lafayette's team has been among the top 60 teams in six
of the past seven years, with top 40 finishes in three of those
years.
Over the past four years, an average of 20 Lafayette students have
participated in the six-hour Exam.
Web sites of interest
To find out more about the group, check out the problems contained in the
documents below. If you've got an answer to any of the problems
posed, let us know about it. Even if we've already
discussed some answers to the problems, your answer might be different.
Good luck!
A Partial List of Past Problems Sets
Fall 2006
Fall 2005
Spring 2005
Fall 2004
Fall 2003
Fall 2001
Fall 2000
Spring 2000
- Message #1 (January 27, 2000)
- Message #2 (February 2, 2000)
- Problem Set (February 2, 2000)
- Message #3 (February 8, 2000)
- Message #4 (February 14, 2000)
- Problem Set (February 16, 2000)
- Message #5 (February 22, 2000)
- Problem Set (February 23, 2000)
- Message #6 (February 27, 2000)
- Message #7 (March 7, 2000)
- Message #8 (March 21, 2000)
- Problem Set (March 22, 2000)
- Problem Set (March 29, 2000)
Fall 1999
Contact smithder@lafayette.edu
Last Updated: Wednesday, September 5, 2007
http://www.lafayette.edu/~smithder/
