{"id":239,"date":"2019-12-10T11:13:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T16:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/?p=239"},"modified":"2019-12-10T11:13:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T16:13:16","slug":"uml-participation-in-the-2019-william-lowell-putnam-mathematics-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/2019\/12\/10\/uml-participation-in-the-2019-william-lowell-putnam-mathematics-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"UML Participation in the 2019 William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2019\/12\/ADF60128-2669-4F16-A919-9321C1979771-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2019\/12\/ADF60128-2669-4F16-A919-9321C1979771-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2019\/12\/ADF60128-2669-4F16-A919-9321C1979771-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2019\/12\/ADF60128-2669-4F16-A919-9321C1979771-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/47\/2019\/12\/ADF60128-2669-4F16-A919-9321C1979771-400x300.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>UML Students working on the Putnam. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>What a way to spend your Saturday! Get yourself to campus for 10 AM and work on six math problems for three hours. Then after a two hour break, spend another three hours of six more problems. That\u2019s what thousands of undergraduate students throughout the US and Canada, including 34 UMass Lowell students, did on December 7 to take part in the 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maa.org\/math-competitions\/putnam-competition\">William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition<\/a>.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The competition, sponsored by the Mathematical Association of America, took place concurrently throughout the US and Canada. Last year, &nbsp;4,623 students from 568 institutions participated. There were two 3 hour sessions, each with six problems. As usual, the problems were tough. Here is probably the easiest of them:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote>Determine all possible values of the expression<blockquote><i>A<\/i><sup>3<\/sup> +<i>B<\/i><sup>3<\/sup> +<i>C<\/i><sup>3<\/sup> &#8211; 3 <i>A<\/i><i> B<\/i> <i>C<\/i>,<\/blockquote>where <i>A<\/i>, <i>B<\/i>, and <i>C<\/i> are nonnegative integers.<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A complete list of problems:  <a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.uml.edu\/klevasseur\/courses\/92.420\/putnam2019probs.pdf\">2019 Putnam Problems<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Kenneth Levasseur served as supervised competition at UML. &nbsp; 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\n\n\n<p>Results will be announced in late March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a way to spend your Saturday! Get yourself to campus for 10 AM and work on six math problems for three hours. Then after a two hour break, spend another three hours of six more problems. That\u2019s what thousands &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/2019\/12\/10\/uml-participation-in-the-2019-william-lowell-putnam-mathematics-competition\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":331,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[48,47,35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239"}],"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=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/cotangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}