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...cookies and fruit. From then on, a certain solidarity unites them: as they walk out of the Science Center’s rotating doors, over brunch the next day, or during a chance meeting in the Yard, they will discuss the 12 problems on this year’s Putnam Mathematical Competition that they spent a whole day in December trying to solve...
Taking the Putnam is the only experience of its kind in the college world. A higher-level equivalent to high school math Olympiads, it’s funded by the estate of William Lowell Putnam, class of 1882. The 65-year-old annual competition is open to all undergraduate students enrolled at universities and colleges in the U.S. and Canada; some high school students, generally seniors also participate...
...college’s “team.” Although team members work separately, the sum of their scores serves as the team’s score, which is then compared to the scores of other college teams. Both the top five individuals, who are designated Putnam Fellows, and the five highest-scoring teams receive cash prizes. First prize is a hefty $25,000 that goes to the math department of the winning university and $1000 for each team member—an award that went to Harvard this year...
Over the past decade, social capitalists such as Harvard’s Malkin Professor of Public Policy Robert D. Putnam have warned that civic participation is waning in the United States—especially among young people. America’s youth vote less and are less involved in their communities than previous generations. Too many American high schools are contributing to this trend by stifling the sort of free speech found in posters or t-shirts with war related messages. These schools are teaching their students that it is better to sit back and remain uncontroversial than create...
Barry's book is a satire set in a nightmare future. William Gibson's Pattern Recognition (Putnam; 356 pages) is a serious thriller set in the dystopian present. Gibson, best known for the seminal cyberpunk classic Neuromancer, tells the story of Cayce Pollard, a "coolhunter" who gets paid to spot hot new trends for marketers. In her private life, Cayce is obsessed with a series of short films that have appeared anonymously on the Internet. These are enigmatic, surreal scraps of footage that exude an overwhelming melancholy--kind of like the video in The Ring, but sad, not scary. Trouble...