SELF-STUDY

For students interested in the Putnam exam, here are some self-study resources.

• Basic strategies (from here): general/strategies.pdf

• Recent Putnam exams and solutions: http://kskedlaya.org/putnam-archive/

• AOPS Putnam Forum (very useful): https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c7t441f7

• 30k IMO-level problems and solutions: https://mathnet.mit.edu/

• Resources from other schools:

  • MIT Putnam seminar: 2023, 2018
  • Harvey Mudd: https://math.hmc.edu/~ajb/PCMI/problem_solve.html
  • Northwestern https://www.math.northwestern.edu/undergraduate/putnam/training.html

• Collected challenges:

  • https://www.research.ibm.com/haifa/ponderthis/index.shtml (monthly, hard)
  • https://projecteuler.net/ (a long sequence of puzzles, CS and math)

• Other competitions:

  • https://www.imc-math.org.uk/?item=problems (European competition since 1994)
  • https://math.vt.edu/undergrad-math/vtrmc.html (Virginia Tech, ended 2022)
  • https://www.math.utoronto.ca/barbeau/university.html (Toronto, since 2001)
  • https://www.imo-official.org/problems/ (pre-college Olympiad, since 1959)

For students at Emory, I also have physical books that I am willing to lend.

Good luck!