No calculators. No textbooks. Just a pencil and paper. Here’s the problem: “Given that A,B and C are non-collinear points in the plane with integer coordinates such that the distances AB, AC and BC ...

For Sarthak Dassarma ’26, mathematics isn’t a set of rules to memorize—it’s a story, and the Putnam Competition is just his ...

Putnam — For the past three years, improvement in math among Putnam Elementary School’s most disadvantaged students has ranked among the bottom 10% of schools in the state. More than 66% of Putnam ...

ST. JOHN'S — Undergraduate students across North America sat down on Saturday to write a gruelling six-hour math exam, many of them unlikely to solve a single problem. The notoriously brutal William ...

In an outstanding performance at the 86th William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition , MIT's team once again took the top spot for the sixth ...