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...Math competitions] are fun. They're fun to take," said Putnam Fellow Michael L. Develin '00. "There are all these pathetic people who took math exams in high school [such as the International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO) and want to relive those glory days...
Fourteen Harvard undergraduates were honored last night at a dinner at the Fogg Museum of Art for the winners of the Fifty-Eighth Annual William Putnam Mathematical Competition...
...exam began in 1938 when the Mathematical Association of America took over the responsibility for carrying out what was the brainchild of William Lowell Putnam, Harvard class of 1882. This year, 2,510 students from 419 colleges and universities devoted a Saturday to the six-hour exam, on which fewpeople score any points...
According to Taubes, about sixty Harvardstudents took the exam this year, but, saidDevelin, anyone who is interested in math shouldattempt the Putnam...
...particular, Develin says the Putnam presentsproblems on introductory material, includingcalculus and group theory, as well as"self-contained questions" on "the body ofmathematical lore commonly discussed inmathematics clubs or in courses with such titlesas 'survey of the foundations of mathematics...