General information by and about the W. L. Putnam prize competition
Language: eng
Subjects: Awards; William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition; Harvard University
Description: May contain broadsides, clippings, news releases, lists of winners, programs and brochures.
Notes: William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition was named from William Lowell Putnam, Harvard College Class of 1882. In 1927 Mrs. Putnam established a fund to support such a mathematics competition in her husband's memory. After a few, and apparently unsatisfactory, dual meets, it was decided to hold an annual national contest in mathematics. The first took place in 1938 and, with the exception of three war years, it has been repeated annually ever since.