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University of Wyoming

The Putnam Team


The Putnam exam is a yearly mathematics competition sponsored by the Mathematical Association of America, and taken by students all across the U.S. and Canada. Last year, almost 3000 students from 453 colleges and universities participated. This is a challenging exam, but it's fun if you like this kind of thing. It can be frustrating -- staring at a problem, trying various ideas -- but it's exciting if you figure one out. Any undergraduate is eligible to participate (to a maximum of four times). Every fall, the math department has a class, Math 3800, intended to help students prepare for the Putnam exam. Students in the class form the annual Putnam Team.