The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition is a collegiate mathematics competition offered every year to contestants in the United States and Canada and sponsored by the Mathematical Association of America . The exam is designed to test originality as well as technical competence and to stimulate a healthy rivalry in the mathematical studies in the colleges and universities of the United States and Canada. The exam will be held on Saturday, December 1, 2001. The exam shall consist of two periods of exactly three hours each with a two hour break between the two sessions.
All students are welcome to attend as few or as many sessions as desired.
Sessions will be scheduled by the exam supervisor sometime during October or November. Check this page or check with the exam supervisor for times and dates. Algebra Through Problem Solving by Abraham Hillman and Gerald Alexanderson, which is currently out of print but is available on the World Wide Web at the Educational Resources site of Los Alamos National Laboratory. The contest is open only to regularly enrolled undergraduates, in colleges and universities of the United States and Canada, who have not yet received a college degree. No individual may participate in the competition more than four times.