{"id":205,"date":"2018-12-03T08:43:07","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T13:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/?p=205"},"modified":"2018-12-03T08:43:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T13:43:07","slug":"uml-participation-in-the-2018-william-lowell-putnam-math-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/2018\/12\/03\/uml-participation-in-the-2018-william-lowell-putnam-math-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"UML Participation in the 2018 William Lowell Putnam Math Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_209\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2018\/12\/IMG_0981.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-209\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-209\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2018\/12\/IMG_0981-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2018\/12\/IMG_0981-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2018\/12\/IMG_0981-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2018\/12\/IMG_0981-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2018\/12\/IMG_0981-400x300.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-209\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2018 William Lowell Putnam Math Competition at UML<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Forty-six UMass Lowell students participated in the 2018\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/math.scu.edu\/putnam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition<\/a> on Saturday, December 1. The competition, sponsored by the Mathematical Association of America, took place concurrently throughout the US and Canada. Last year, 4,638 students from 575 institutions participated. There were two 3 hour sessions, each with six problems. As usual, the problems were tough. Here is one of them:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Find all ordered pairs (a,b) of positive integers for which 1\/a + 1\/b = 3\/2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A complete list of problems: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2018\/12\/putnam2018probs.pdf\">putnam2018probs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Professor Kenneth Levasseur served as supervised competition at UML. \u00a0 Thanks to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uml.edu\/honors\/\">Honors College<\/a> for providing refreshments for the students on the day of the event.<\/p>\n<p>Results will be announced in late March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty-six UMass Lowell students participated in the 2018\u00a0William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition on Saturday, December 1. The competition, sponsored by the Mathematical Association of America, took place concurrently throughout the US and Canada. Last year, 4,638 students from 575 institutions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/2018\/12\/03\/uml-participation-in-the-2018-william-lowell-putnam-math-competition\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":331,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[79,78,64,47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}