More practice material courtesy of Dennis Eichhorn:
Problems A1 and B1 (the easiest Putnam problems)
from the past 20 years, with solutions,
some mock Putnam exams with solutions from the University of Illinois, and some general
Putnam problem-solving tools
You can take the Putnam Exam even if you don't take Math 194, but you must sign up by 9am on Monday, October 3. (If you are enrolled in Math 194, I will sign you up automatically.) To sign up, send me an e-mail at krubin@uci.edu. All email signup requests will be acknowledged. Because of the early deadline, you should sign up if there's any chance at all you'll want to take the exam. If you're not enrolled in Math 194 and you change your mind later and don't take the exam, that's OK.
Everyone is welcome, whether or not you are enrolled for credit. If you like solving problems it should be fun. If you want to take the Putnam exam (and who wouldn't?) this will be good practice.
| date | Chapter from Larson | problems to do for next week |
some solutions, courtesy of Dennis Eichhorn |
in-class problems |
| Sept. 22 | 1 | problem set 1 | solutions | class 1 |
| Sept. 29 | 2 | problem set 2 | solutions | class 2 |
| Oct. 6 | 3 | problem set 3 | solutions | class 3 |
| Oct. 13 | 4 | problem set 4 | solutions | class 4 |
| Oct. 20 | 5 | problem set 5 | solutions | class 5 |
| Oct. 27 | 6 | problem set 6 | solutions | class 6 |
| Nov. 3 | 7 | problem set 7 | solutions | class 7 |
| Nov. 10 | practice exam | hints | ||
| Nov. 17 | 8 | problem set 8 | class 8 | |
| Dec. 1 | ||||
| Dec. 8 | go over Putnam exam | |||