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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 ...
American Mathematics Competitions is also the name of the organization, based in Washington, D.C., responsible for creating, distributing and coordinating the American Mathematics Competitions contests, which include the American Mathematics Contest, AIME, and USA (J)MO. The American Mathematics Competitions organization also conducts outreach ...
The International Mathematical Olympiad ( IMO) is a mathematical olympiad for pre-university students, and is the oldest of the International Science Olympiads. [1] It is “the most prestigious” mathematical competition in the world. The first IMO was held in Romania in 1959.
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The putnam is the primary indicator for performance as a research mathematician, unless of course you pursue undergraduate mathematical research and succeed in obtaining a useful result. Otherwise a zero on the putnam should be an indicator for a change of career. Charleton Heston
Nordic Mathematical Contest (NMC) — the five Nordic countries. North East Asian Mathematics Competition (NEAMC) — North-East Asia. Pan African Mathematics Olympiads (PAMO) South East Asian Mathematics Competition (SEAMC) — South-East Asia. William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition — United States and Canada.
Terence Tao. Terence Chi-Shen Tao FAA FRS ( Chinese: 陶哲軒; born 17 July 1975) is an Australian mathematician who is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he holds the James and Carol Collins Chair in the College of Letters and Sciences.
Barton is the son of two environmental engineers. [1] Barton took part-time classes at Tufts University in chemistry (5th grade), physics (6th grade), and subsequently Swedish, Finnish, French, and Chinese. Since eighth grade he worked part-time with MIT computer scientist Charles E. Leiserson on CilkChess, a computer chess program. [1]