UC Santa Barbara earned its highest-ever finish in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, placing fifth among 477 universities across North America. College of Creative Studies (CCS) ...

No calculators. No textbooks. Just a pencil and paper. Here’s the problem: “Given that A,B and C are non-collinear points in the plane with integer coordinates such that the distances AB, AC and BC ...

Armed with pencils and plenty of scrap paper, 19 students gathered in an Olsen Hall classroom, ready to take on the toughest college math competition in North America. “The competition challenges ...

ST. JOHN'S — Undergraduate students across North America sat down on Saturday to write a gruelling six-hour math exam, many of them unlikely to solve a single problem. The notoriously brutal William ...

This was the fifth consecutive year that the Princeton team has won first or second place and the 27th year that it has been among the winning five teams. Princetonians also ranked in the top 25 in ...

As a data scientist with my roots in the theoretical foundations of the field, I’m always looking for ways to challenge myself and pick up a new mathematical apparatus that could help me in my project ...

A group of Yale undergraduates will sit for the most notoriously difficult collegiate math competition in the country. Held by the Mathematical Association of America, the Putnam Competition — held ...

Ana Caraiani '07 earned the title of Individual Putnam Fellow and won the prestigious Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize at the Putnam Mathematical Competition. Results of the competition were announced ...

ST. JOHN'S - Undergraduate students across North America sat down on Saturday to write a gruelling six-hour math exam, many of them unlikely to solve a single problem. As we navigate through ...