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  2. William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition - Wikipedia

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    The competition was founded in 1927 by Elizabeth Lowell Putnam in memory of her husband William Lowell Putnam, who was an advocate of intercollegiate intellectual competition. The competition has been offered annually since 1938 and is administered by the Mathematical Association of America .

  3. Category:Putnam Fellows - Wikipedia

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    The Putnam Fellows are the top 5 (or 6 in event of a tie) in the annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. Pages in category "Putnam Fellows" The following 89 pages are in this category, out of 89 total.

  4. List of mathematics competitions - Wikipedia

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    Canadian Open Mathematics Challenge — Canada's premier national mathematics competition open to any student with an interest in and grasp of high school math and organised by Canadian Mathematical Society; Canadian Mathematical Olympiad — competition whose top performers represent Canada at the International Mathematical Olympiad

  5. Putnam Mathematics Competition - Wikipedia

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  6. Equation xy = yx - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] [4] In 1960, the equation was among the questions on the William Lowell Putnam Competition, [6] [7] which prompted Alvin Hausner to extend results to algebraic number fields. [ 3 ] [ 8 ] Positive real solutions

  7. William Lowell Putnam - Wikipedia

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    In 1927, Elizabeth Lowell Putnam established the William Lowell Putnam Intercollegiate Memorial Fund in order to begin a college-level mathematics competition, the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. This contest, which continues to this day, began in 1935 under the direction of the Mathematical Association of America.

  8. Elizabeth Lowell Putnam - Wikipedia

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    In 1927, after her husband's death, Elizabeth Lowell Putnam established the William Lowell Putnam Intercollegiate Memorial Fund in order to begin a college-level mathematics competition. This contest, which continues to this day, began in 1935 under the direction of the Mathematical Association of America. Since 1992, the competition has ...

  9. Donald J. Newman - Wikipedia

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    When he was 14 he worked with Dubble Bubble Gum to help solve the statistical question of how often a gum purchaser would receive the same joke for their gum wrapper. [4] He was an avid problem-solver, and as an undergraduate was a Putnam Fellow all three years he took part in the Putnam math competition; only the third person to attain that ...