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Putnam Investments is an investment management firm founded in 1937 by George Putnam, who established one of the first balanced mutual funds, The George Putnam Fund of Boston. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, it has offices in London, Tokyo, Frankfurt, Sydney, and Singapore. Putnam is currently a subsidiary of Franklin Templeton Investments.
The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, often abbreviated to Putnam Competition, is an annual mathematics competition for undergraduate college students enrolled at institutions of higher learning in the United States and Canada (regardless of the students' nationalities). It awards a scholarship and cash prizes ranging from $250 to ...
Putnam County is a county located in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 36,726. [2] The county seat is Greencastle. [3] The county was named for Israel Putnam, a hero in the French and Indian War and a general in the American Revolutionary War. The county was created in 1821 and organized in April ...
Joel Spencer (born April 20, 1946) is an American mathematician.He is a combinatorialist who has worked on probabilistic methods in combinatorics and on Ramsey theory.He received his doctorate from Harvard University in 1970, under the supervision of Andrew Gleason.
The Putnam model is an empirical software effort estimation model. [1] The original paper by Lawrence H. Putnam published in 1978 is seen as pioneering work in the field of software process modelling. [2] As a group, empirical models work by collecting software project data (for example, effort and size) and fitting a curve to the data.
Barton is one of seven people to have placed among the five top ranked competitors (who are themselves not ranked against each other) in the William Lowell Putnam Competition four times (2001–2004). Barton was a member of the MIT team which finished second in 2001 and first in 2003 and 2004.
In 1959 he was a Putnam Fellow. In 1973/74 he was a Guggenheim Fellow. Since 1995 he has been co-editor of Documenta Mathematica. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. References
Dempster received his B.A. in mathematics and physics (1952) and M.A. in mathematics (1953), both from the University of Toronto. He obtained his Ph.D. in mathematical statistics from Princeton University in 1956. His thesis, titled The two-sample multivariate problem in the degenerate case, was written under the supervision of John Tukey .