MATH 499B K-State Putnam Seminar - Fall
Solving challenging problems is one of the the best ways to learn math. If you enjoy working on hard problems, then here is the course for you! The Putnam Seminar is a wonderful opportunity to meet professors and students, learn different areas of math, and compete in the Putnam, Parker, and Kansas Collegiate math competitions.Professors teaching the Putnam Seminar will focus on specific areas of problem solving, and students in the Seminar will pitch their brains at stimulating problems in algebra, analysis, calculus, geometry, number theory, topology, and other areas. Every two weeks, another professor will take over the Seminar and move on to a different area. That pattern will continue up to the Putnam Exam itself which is given on the first Saturday in December. A professor will go over the exam in the last week of the semester.
The faculty involved in the Putnam Seminar are Drs. David Auckly, Ivan Blank, Todd Cochrane, Louis Crane, Xiang Fang, Zongzhu Lin, Diego Maldonado Tom Muenzenberger, Gabriel Nagy, Virginia Naibo, Chris Pinner, Pietro Poggi-Corradini, Victor Turchin, Dan Volok, and Huanan Yang.
The Putnam Seminar is scheduled to meet at 2:30 p.m. on MWF. Faculty will present material, problem solving tips, and problems on Monday and Wednesday, and a graduate student will provide help with the problems on Friday. Here is the Schedule.
Interested students should enroll in the one credit course MATH 499 Top/Putnam Seminar, section B. MATH 499 is repeatable for credit and applies toward the bachelor's degree in mathematics.