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...Putnam provides us with a chance to relive those days--as Clifford Taubes points out in the article (News, April 9), the Putnam is the only college math competition, while there are many for high school students. We jump at the opportunity to recapture a part of our youth. Perhaps the word "pathetic" is inappropriate, but I was merely putting in a self-degrading quip. This phrase was in no way meant to refer to the persons who fall into the category "anyone interested in math...
...sorry for any misunderstanding this may have caused, and encourage Mullin to take the Putnam next year. MIKE L. DEVELIN '00 April...
Michael L. Develin's comment regarding the Putnam Math Contest (News, Apr. 9) makes me ashamed to be a Harvard student. Develin's condescending attitude toward the "pathetic" competitors in the competition promotes the stereotype of the arrogant Harvard student. How can he suggest that "anyone interested in math should take the Putnam" when he degrades those not on his level of achievement? STACEY J. MULLIN '00 April...
These are two of six questions from the first three-hour section of the fifty-eighth annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. A second section of similar length followed...
Source: William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition 1997, Examination...