Who won the Putnam?
The 80th Annual William Lowell Putnam Competition took place on Saturday, December 7, 2019. Congratulations to Harvard’s team of Sehun Kim ’22, Sheldon Kieran Tan ’23 and Franklyn Wang ’22 for placing second among 570 institutions in the United States and Canada competing in the exam.
Was Richard Feynman a Putnam Fellow?
Physicist Richard Feynman was a Putnam Fellow; famed mathematician John Nash only placed in the second five. The Putnam is the denouement of the story of ambitious American mathletes.
What is the highest score on the Putnam competition?
The highest score on the 82nd Putnam competition was 119 out of a possible 120 points. Cash prizes are awarded to the Putnam Fellows, the Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize winner, and the mathematics departments and student members of the highest-ranked teams.
What is the average Putnam score?
The Putnam competition, founded in 1938, is the most prestigious national college-level competition in mathematics, and is currently run by the Mathematical Association of America. The median score on this very challenging exam this year was 2 points out of 120 points.
What score do you need to be a Putnam Fellow?
Scores of 10, 9, and 1 are the next most common. In 2019, one person received a perfect score of 120 (they were the 5th person in competition history to do so), fewer than a quarter of the 4,229 test takers received a score higher than 10, and the median score for the exam was a 2.
Is Putnam exam hardest?
Originally Answered: Which test is tougher – Putnam Mathematical Competition or IITJEE Math Section? The Putnam Exam is tougher given that the median (most common score) is 0/12 or 1/12. (And they’re usually math majors.)
What did Feynman get on the Putnam?
“Feynman received the highest score in the country by a large margin on the notoriously difficult Putnam mathematics competition exam, although he joined the MIT team on short notice and did not prepare for the test.” in J Wai 2011. I guess, one can write to MAA to find out.
Did Richard Feynman remarry?
He held the Richard C. Tolman professorship in theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology….
| Richard Feynman | |
|---|---|
| Spouse(s) | Arline Greenbaum ( m. 1941; died 1945) Mary Louise Bell ( m. 1952–1956) Gweneth Howarth ( m. 1960) |
| Children | 2 |
Is a 20 on the Putnam good?
In 2017, there were 4638 contestants. So the score for 50th percentile is 0, 10 is 70th percentile, 20 is 84th percentile, 25 is 90th percentile, 30 is 96th percentile.
How does Putnam Competition work?
The competition consists of two 3-hour sessions, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. During each session, participants work individually on 6 challenging mathematical problems. The Putnam began in 1938 as a competition between mathematics departments at colleges and universities.