William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition
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The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, often abbreviated to the Putnam Competition, is an annual mathematics competition for undergraduate college
student
s of the United States
and Canada
, awarding scholarship
s and cash prizes ranging from $250 to $2,500 for the top students and $5,000 to $25,000 for the top schools. It is considered by many to be the most prestigious university-level mathematics examination in the world. The competition was founded in 1927 by Elizabeth Lowell Putnam
in memory of her husband William Lowell Putnam
, who was an advocate of intercollegiate intellectual competition. The exam has been offered annually since 1938 and is administered by the Mathematical Association of America
.
Each of the twelve questions is worth 10 points, and the most frequent scores above zero are 10 points for a complete solution, 9 points for a nearly complete solution, and 1 point for the beginnings of a solution. In earlier years, the twelve questions were worth one point each, with absolutely no partial credit given. The examination is considered to be very difficult: it is typically attempted by students specializing in mathematics, but the median
score is usually one or two points out of 120 possible, and there have been only four perfect scores . In 2003, of the 3,615 students taking the exam, 1024 (28%) scored 10 or more points, and 42 points was sufficient to make the top 102.
At a participating college, any student who wishes to take part in the exam may compete (limited by the number of exams a school receives); but the school's official team consists of three individuals whom it designates in advance. A team's score is the sum of the ranks of its three team members, with the lowest cumulative rank winning. It is entirely possible, even commonplace at some institutions, for the eventual results to show that the "wrong" team was picked—i.e. that some students not on the official team outscored an official team member. For example, in 2010, MIT had two of the top five scorers on the examination and seven of the top 24, while Caltech had just one student in the top five and only four in the top 24; yet Caltech took first place among teams while MIT took second.
The top five teams win $25,000, $20,000, $15,000, $10,000, and $5,000, in that order, with team members receiving $1,000, $800, $600, $400, and $200, respectively.
The top five individual scorers are named Putnam Fellows and awarded $2,500. One of them is also awarded the William Lowell Putnam Prize Scholarship of $12,000 plus tuition
for graduate study at Harvard University
. Sixth through 15th place individuals receive $1,000 and the next ten receive $250. The names of the top 100 students are published in the American Mathematical Monthly
. Many Putnam Fellows have gone on to become distinguished researchers in mathematics and other fields, including three Fields Medal
ists—Milnor
, Mumford
, and Quillen—and two Nobel laureates in physics—Feynman
and Wilson
.
The competition is held on the first Saturday in December, most recently December 4, 2010.
The following table lists Teams finishing in Top Five ( competition):
The following table lists teams that finished in the top five since 1990 ( competition):
The following table lists Teams with First place finishes ( competition):
). This makes it even more of a remarkable feat to become a Putnam Fellow four times. In the history of Competition, only seven students have been Putnam Fellows four times, with nineteen others winning the award three times. The following table lists these students:
The following table lists all Putnam fellows from 1938 to present, with the years they placed in the top five.
College
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student
Student
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s of the United States
United States
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and Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, awarding scholarship
Scholarship
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s and cash prizes ranging from $250 to $2,500 for the top students and $5,000 to $25,000 for the top schools. It is considered by many to be the most prestigious university-level mathematics examination in the world. The competition was founded in 1927 by Elizabeth Lowell Putnam
Elizabeth Lowell Putnam
Elizabeth Lowell Putnam was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Augustus Lowell of Boston...
in memory of her husband William Lowell Putnam
William Lowell Putnam
William Lowell Putnam II was an American lawyer and banker.-Biography:...
, who was an advocate of intercollegiate intellectual competition. The exam has been offered annually since 1938 and is administered by the Mathematical Association of America
Mathematical Association of America
The Mathematical Association of America is a professional society that focuses on mathematics accessible at the undergraduate level. Members include university, college, and high school teachers; graduate and undergraduate students; pure and applied mathematicians; computer scientists;...
.
Competition layout
The Putnam competition now takes place on the first Saturday in December, and consists of two three-hour sittings separated by a lunch break. The test is supervised by faculty members at the participating schools. Each competitor attempts to solve twelve problems, which can typically be solved with only basic knowledge of college mathematics but which require extensive creative thinking.Each of the twelve questions is worth 10 points, and the most frequent scores above zero are 10 points for a complete solution, 9 points for a nearly complete solution, and 1 point for the beginnings of a solution. In earlier years, the twelve questions were worth one point each, with absolutely no partial credit given. The examination is considered to be very difficult: it is typically attempted by students specializing in mathematics, but the median
Median
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score is usually one or two points out of 120 possible, and there have been only four perfect scores . In 2003, of the 3,615 students taking the exam, 1024 (28%) scored 10 or more points, and 42 points was sufficient to make the top 102.
At a participating college, any student who wishes to take part in the exam may compete (limited by the number of exams a school receives); but the school's official team consists of three individuals whom it designates in advance. A team's score is the sum of the ranks of its three team members, with the lowest cumulative rank winning. It is entirely possible, even commonplace at some institutions, for the eventual results to show that the "wrong" team was picked—i.e. that some students not on the official team outscored an official team member. For example, in 2010, MIT had two of the top five scorers on the examination and seven of the top 24, while Caltech had just one student in the top five and only four in the top 24; yet Caltech took first place among teams while MIT took second.
The top five teams win $25,000, $20,000, $15,000, $10,000, and $5,000, in that order, with team members receiving $1,000, $800, $600, $400, and $200, respectively.
The top five individual scorers are named Putnam Fellows and awarded $2,500. One of them is also awarded the William Lowell Putnam Prize Scholarship of $12,000 plus tuition
Tuition
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for graduate study at Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
. Sixth through 15th place individuals receive $1,000 and the next ten receive $250. The names of the top 100 students are published in the American Mathematical Monthly
American Mathematical Monthly
The American Mathematical Monthly is a mathematical journal founded by Benjamin Finkel in 1894. It is currently published 10 times each year by the Mathematical Association of America....
. Many Putnam Fellows have gone on to become distinguished researchers in mathematics and other fields, including three Fields Medal
Fields Medal
The Fields Medal, officially known as International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics, is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union , a meeting that takes place every four...
ists—Milnor
John Milnor
John Willard Milnor is an American mathematician known for his work in differential topology, K-theory and dynamical systems. He won the Fields Medal in 1962, the Wolf Prize in 1989, and the Abel Prize in 2011. Milnor is a distinguished professor at Stony Brook University...
, Mumford
David Mumford
David Bryant Mumford is an American mathematician known for distinguished work in algebraic geometry, and then for research into vision and pattern theory. He won the Fields Medal and was a MacArthur Fellow. In 2010 he was awarded the National Medal of Science...
, and Quillen—and two Nobel laureates in physics—Feynman
Richard Feynman
Richard Phillips Feynman was an American physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in particle physics...
and Wilson
Kenneth G. Wilson
Kenneth Geddes Wilson is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner.As an undergraduate at Harvard, he was a Putnam Fellow. He earned his PhD from Caltech in 1961, studying under Murray Gell-Mann....
.
The competition is held on the first Saturday in December, most recently December 4, 2010.
Top-scoring teams
| Year | First | Second | Third | Fourth | Fifth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | Toronto University of Toronto The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada... | UC Berkeley University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA... | Columbia Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the... | ||
| 1939 | Brooklyn College Brooklyn College Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn, New York, United States.Established in 1930 by the New York City Board of Higher Education, the College had its beginnings as the Downtown Brooklyn branches of Hunter College and the City College of New... | MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in... | Mississippi Woman's | ||
| 1940 | Toronto | Yale Yale University Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States... | Columbia Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the... | ||
| 1941 | Brooklyn College | UPenn University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution... | MIT | ||
| 1942 | Toronto | Yale | MIT | City College of NY City College of New York The City College of the City University of New York is a senior college of the City University of New York , in New York City. It is also the oldest of the City University's twenty-three institutions of higher learning... | |
| 1946 | Toronto | MIT | Brooklyn College | Carnegie Tech Carnegie Institute of Technology The Carnegie Institute of Technology , is the name for Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering. It was first called the Carnegie Technical Schools, or Carnegie Tech, when it was founded in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie who intended to build a “first class technical school” in Pittsburgh,... | |
| 1947 | Harvard Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country... | Yale | Columbia | UPenn | |
| 1948 | Brooklyn College | Toronto | Harvard | City College of NY and McGill McGill University Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university... | |
| 1949 | Harvard | Toronto | Carnegie Tech | City College of NY | |
| 1950 | Caltech California Institute of Technology The California Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Pasadena, California, United States. Caltech has six academic divisions with strong emphases on science and engineering... | Harvard | NYU New York University New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan... | Toronto | |
| 1951 | Cornell Cornell University Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions... | Harvard | Cooper Union Cooper Union The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, commonly referred to simply as Cooper Union, is a privately funded college in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States, located at Cooper Square and Astor Place... | City College of NY | |
| 1952 | Queen's Queen's University Queen's University, , is a public research university located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Founded on 16 October 1841, the university pre-dates the founding of Canada by 26 years. Queen's holds more more than of land throughout Ontario as well as Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex, England... | Brooklyn Polytech | Harvard | MIT | |
| 1953 | Harvard | City College of NY | Cornell | UC Berkeley University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA... | |
| 1954 | Cornell | Harvard | MIT | Toronto | |
| 1955 | Harvard | Toronto | Yale | Kenyon Kenyon College Kenyon College is a private liberal arts college in Gambier, Ohio, founded in 1824 by Bishop Philander Chase of The Episcopal Church, in parallel with the Bexley Hall seminary. It is the oldest private college in Ohio... | |
| 1956 | Harvard | Columbia | Queen's | MIT | |
| 1957 | Harvard | Columbia | Cornell | Caltech | |
| 1958 (Spring) | Brooklyn Polytech | Harvard | Toronto | Manitoba University of Manitoba The University of Manitoba , in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, is the largest university in the province of Manitoba. It is Manitoba's most comprehensive and only research-intensive post-secondary educational institution. It was founded in 1877, making it Western Canada’s first university. It placed... | |
| 1958 (Fall) | Harvard | Toronto | Caltech | Cornell | |
| 1959 | Brooklyn Polytech | Caltech | Toronto | Harvard | Case Tech |
| 1960 | UC Berkeley University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA... | Harvard | MIT | Michigan State Michigan State University Michigan State University is a public research university in East Lansing, Michigan, USA. Founded in 1855, it was the pioneer land-grant institution and served as a model for future land-grant colleges in the United States under the 1862 Morrill Act.MSU pioneered the studies of packaging,... | Cornell |
| 1961 | Michigan State Michigan State University Michigan State University is a public research university in East Lansing, Michigan, USA. Founded in 1855, it was the pioneer land-grant institution and served as a model for future land-grant colleges in the United States under the 1862 Morrill Act.MSU pioneered the studies of packaging,... | MIT | Caltech | Harvard | Dartmouth Dartmouth College Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences... |
| 1962 | Caltech | Dartmouth | Harvard | Queen's | UCLA University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses... |
| 1963 | Michigan State | Brooklyn College | UPenn | Caltech | MIT |
| 1964 | Caltech | MIT | Harvard | Case Tech | UC Berkeley |
| 1965 | Harvard | MIT | Toronto | Princeton Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution.... | Caltech |
| 1966 | Harvard | MIT | Chicago University of Chicago The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890... | Michigan University of Michigan The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan... | Princeton |
| 1967 | Michigan State | Caltech | Harvard | MIT | Michigan |
| 1968 | MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in... | Waterloo University of Waterloo The University of Waterloo is a comprehensive public university in the city of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The school was founded in 1957 by Drs. Gerry Hagey and Ira G. Needles, and has since grown to an institution of more than 30,000 students, faculty, and staff... | UCLA | Michigan State | Kansas University of Kansas The University of Kansas is a public research university and the largest university in the state of Kansas. KU campuses are located in Lawrence, Wichita, Overland Park, and Kansas City, Kansas with the main campus being located in Lawrence on Mount Oread, the highest point in Lawrence. The... |
| 1969 | MIT | Rice Rice University William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States... | Chicago | Harvard | Yale |
| 1970 | Chicago University of Chicago The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890... | MIT | Toronto | Illinois Tech Illinois Institute of Technology Illinois Institute of Technology, commonly called Illinois Tech or IIT, is a private Ph.D.-granting university located in Chicago, Illinois, with programs in engineering, science, psychology, architecture, business, communications, industrial technology, information technology, design, and law... | Caltech |
| 1971 | Caltech | Chicago | Harvard | UC Davis University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis is a public teaching and research university established in 1905 and located in Davis, California, USA. Spanning over , the campus is the largest within the University of California system and third largest by enrollment... | MIT |
| 1972 | Caltech | Oberlin Oberlin College Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio, noteworthy for having been the first American institution of higher learning to regularly admit female and black students. Connected to the college is the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the oldest continuously operating... | Harvard | Swarthmore Swarthmore College Swarthmore College is a private, independent, liberal arts college in the United States with an enrollment of about 1,500 students. The college is located in the borough of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, 11 miles southwest of Philadelphia.... | MIT |
| 1973 | Caltech | British Columbia University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia is a public research university. UBC’s two main campuses are situated in Vancouver and in Kelowna in the Okanagan Valley... | Chicago | Harvard | Princeton |
| 1974 | Waterloo University of Waterloo The University of Waterloo is a comprehensive public university in the city of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The school was founded in 1957 by Drs. Gerry Hagey and Ira G. Needles, and has since grown to an institution of more than 30,000 students, faculty, and staff... | Chicago | Caltech | MIT | British Columbia |
| 1975 | Caltech | Chicago | MIT | Princeton | Harvard |
| 1976 | Caltech | Washington U in StL Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis is a private research university located in suburban St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1853, and named for George Washington, the university has students and faculty from all fifty U.S. states and more than 110 nations... | Princeton | Case Western Reserve Case Western Reserve University Case Western Reserve University is a private research university located in Cleveland, Ohio, USA... and MIT | |
| 1977 | Washington U in StL Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis is a private research university located in suburban St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1853, and named for George Washington, the university has students and faculty from all fifty U.S. states and more than 110 nations... | UC Davis | Caltech | Princeton | MIT |
| 1978 | Case Western Reserve Case Western Reserve University Case Western Reserve University is a private research university located in Cleveland, Ohio, USA... | Washington U in StL | Waterloo | Harvard | Caltech |
| 1979 | MIT | Caltech | Princeton | Stanford | Waterloo |
| 1980 | Washington U in StL | Harvard | Maryland University of Maryland, College Park The University of Maryland, College Park is a top-ranked public research university located in the city of College Park in Prince George's County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C... | Chicago | UC Berkeley |
| 1981 | Washington U in StL | Princeton | Harvard | Stanford Stanford University The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San... | Maryland |
| 1982 | Harvard | Waterloo | Caltech | Yale | Princeton |
| 1983 | Caltech | Washington U in StL | Waterloo | Princeton | Chicago |
| 1984 | UC Davis University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis is a public teaching and research university established in 1905 and located in Davis, California, USA. Spanning over , the campus is the largest within the University of California system and third largest by enrollment... and Washington U in StL | Harvard | Princeton | Yale | |
| 1985 | Harvard | Princeton | UC Berkeley | Rice | Waterloo |
| 1986 | Harvard | Washington U in StL | UC Berkeley | Yale | MIT |
| 1987 | Harvard | Princeton | Carnegie Mellon Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.... | UC Berkeley | MIT |
| 1988 | Harvard | Princeton | Rice | Waterloo | Caltech |
| 1989 | Harvard | Princeton | Waterloo | Yale | Rice |
| 1990 | Harvard | Duke Duke University Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B... | Waterloo | Yale | Washington U in StL |
| 1991 | Harvard | Waterloo | Harvey Mudd Harvey Mudd College Harvey Mudd College is a private residential liberal arts college of science, engineering, and mathematics, located in Claremont, California. It is one of the institutions of the contiguous Claremont Colleges, which share adjoining campus grounds.... | Stanford | Yale |
| 1992 | Harvard | Toronto | Waterloo | Princeton | Cornell |
| 1993 | Duke Duke University Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B... | Harvard | Miami University Miami University Miami University is a coeducational public research university located in Oxford, Ohio, United States. Founded in 1809, it is the 10th oldest public university in the United States and the second oldest university in Ohio, founded four years after Ohio University. In its 2012 edition, U.S... | MIT | Michigan |
| 1994 | Harvard | Cornell | MIT | Princeton | Waterloo |
| 1995 | Harvard | Cornell | MIT | Toronto | Princeton |
| 1996 | Duke | Princeton | Harvard | Washington U in StL | Caltech |
| 1997 | Harvard | Duke | Princeton | MIT | Washington U in StL |
| 1998 | Harvard | MIT | Princeton | Caltech | Waterloo |
| 1999 | Waterloo | Harvard | Duke | Michigan | Chicago |
| 2000 | Duke | MIT | Harvard | Caltech | Toronto |
| 2001 | Harvard | MIT | Duke | UC Berkeley | Stanford |
| 2002 | Harvard | Princeton | Duke | UC Berkeley | Stanford |
| 2003 | MIT | Harvard | Duke | Caltech | Harvey Mudd |
| 2004 | MIT | Princeton | Duke | Waterloo | Caltech |
| 2005 | Harvard | Princeton | Duke | MIT | Waterloo |
| 2006 | Princeton | Harvard | MIT | Toronto | Chicago |
| 2007 | Harvard | Princeton | MIT | Stanford | Duke |
| 2008 | Harvard | Princeton | MIT | Stanford | Caltech |
| 2009 | MIT | Harvard | Caltech | Stanford | Princeton |
| 2010 | Caltech | MIT | Harvard | UC Berkeley | Waterloo |
Teams ranked by historical performance
Below is a table of teams by the number of appearances in the top five and number of titles. Where multiple teams have the same number of appearances in the top five, they are ranked by number of championships, and then listed in alphabetical order.The following table lists Teams finishing in Top Five ( competition):
| Top Five | Team (s) |
|---|---|
| 55 | Harvard Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country... |
| 40 | MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in... |
| 30 | Caltech California Institute of Technology The California Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Pasadena, California, United States. Caltech has six academic divisions with strong emphases on science and engineering... |
| 28 | Princeton Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution.... |
| 18 | Toronto University of Toronto The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada... |
| 17 | Waterloo University of Waterloo The University of Waterloo is a comprehensive public university in the city of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The school was founded in 1957 by Drs. Gerry Hagey and Ira G. Needles, and has since grown to an institution of more than 30,000 students, faculty, and staff... |
| 12 | Duke Duke University Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B... |
| 11 | Chicago University of Chicago The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890... , Washington U in StL Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis is a private research university located in suburban St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1853, and named for George Washington, the university has students and faculty from all fifty U.S. states and more than 110 nations... , Yale Yale University Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States... |
| 9 | UC Berkeley University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA... , Cornell Cornell University Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions... |
| 8 | Stanford Stanford University The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San... |
| 5 | Brooklyn College Brooklyn College Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn, New York, United States.Established in 1930 by the New York City Board of Higher Education, the College had its beginnings as the Downtown Brooklyn branches of Hunter College and the City College of New... , City College of NY City College of New York The City College of the City University of New York is a senior college of the City University of New York , in New York City. It is also the oldest of the City University's twenty-three institutions of higher learning... , Michigan State Michigan State University Michigan State University is a public research university in East Lansing, Michigan, USA. Founded in 1855, it was the pioneer land-grant institution and served as a model for future land-grant colleges in the United States under the 1862 Morrill Act.MSU pioneered the studies of packaging,... |
| 4 | Case Western Reserve Case Western Reserve University Case Western Reserve University is a private research university located in Cleveland, Ohio, USA... (including former Case Tech), Columbia Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the... , Michigan University of Michigan The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan... , Rice Rice University William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States... |
| 3 | Brooklyn Polytech, UC Davis University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis is a public teaching and research university established in 1905 and located in Davis, California, USA. Spanning over , the campus is the largest within the University of California system and third largest by enrollment... , Carnegie Mellon Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.... (including former Carnegie Tech Carnegie Institute of Technology The Carnegie Institute of Technology , is the name for Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering. It was first called the Carnegie Technical Schools, or Carnegie Tech, when it was founded in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie who intended to build a “first class technical school” in Pittsburgh,... ), Queen's Queen's University Queen's University, , is a public research university located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Founded on 16 October 1841, the university pre-dates the founding of Canada by 26 years. Queen's holds more more than of land throughout Ontario as well as Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex, England... , UPenn University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution... |
| 2 | British Columbia University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia is a public research university. UBC’s two main campuses are situated in Vancouver and in Kelowna in the Okanagan Valley... , Dartmouth Dartmouth College Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences... , Harvey Mudd Harvey Mudd College Harvey Mudd College is a private residential liberal arts college of science, engineering, and mathematics, located in Claremont, California. It is one of the institutions of the contiguous Claremont Colleges, which share adjoining campus grounds.... , Maryland University of Maryland, College Park The University of Maryland, College Park is a top-ranked public research university located in the city of College Park in Prince George's County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C... , UCLA University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses... |
| 1 | Cooper Union Cooper Union The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, commonly referred to simply as Cooper Union, is a privately funded college in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States, located at Cooper Square and Astor Place... , Illinois Tech Illinois Institute of Technology Illinois Institute of Technology, commonly called Illinois Tech or IIT, is a private Ph.D.-granting university located in Chicago, Illinois, with programs in engineering, science, psychology, architecture, business, communications, industrial technology, information technology, design, and law... , Kansas University of Kansas The University of Kansas is a public research university and the largest university in the state of Kansas. KU campuses are located in Lawrence, Wichita, Overland Park, and Kansas City, Kansas with the main campus being located in Lawrence on Mount Oread, the highest point in Lawrence. The... , Kenyon Kenyon College Kenyon College is a private liberal arts college in Gambier, Ohio, founded in 1824 by Bishop Philander Chase of The Episcopal Church, in parallel with the Bexley Hall seminary. It is the oldest private college in Ohio... , Manitoba University of Manitoba The University of Manitoba , in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, is the largest university in the province of Manitoba. It is Manitoba's most comprehensive and only research-intensive post-secondary educational institution. It was founded in 1877, making it Western Canada’s first university. It placed... , McGill McGill University Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university... , Miami University Miami University Miami University is a coeducational public research university located in Oxford, Ohio, United States. Founded in 1809, it is the 10th oldest public university in the United States and the second oldest university in Ohio, founded four years after Ohio University. In its 2012 edition, U.S... , Mississippi Woman's, NYU New York University New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan... , Oberlin College Oberlin College Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio, noteworthy for having been the first American institution of higher learning to regularly admit female and black students. Connected to the college is the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the oldest continuously operating... , Swarthmore Swarthmore College Swarthmore College is a private, independent, liberal arts college in the United States with an enrollment of about 1,500 students. The college is located in the borough of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, 11 miles southwest of Philadelphia.... |
The following table lists teams that finished in the top five since 1990 ( competition):
| Top Five | Team (s) |
|---|---|
| 19 | Harvard Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country... |
| 14 | MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in... |
| 13 | Princeton Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution.... |
| 12 | Duke Duke University Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B... |
| 8 | Waterloo University of Waterloo The University of Waterloo is a comprehensive public university in the city of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The school was founded in 1957 by Drs. Gerry Hagey and Ira G. Needles, and has since grown to an institution of more than 30,000 students, faculty, and staff... |
| 7 | Caltech California Institute of Technology The California Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Pasadena, California, United States. Caltech has six academic divisions with strong emphases on science and engineering... |
| 6 | Stanford Stanford University The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San... |
| 4 | Toronto University of Toronto The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada... |
| 3 | Cornell Cornell University Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions... , Washington U in StL Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis is a private research university located in suburban St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1853, and named for George Washington, the university has students and faculty from all fifty U.S. states and more than 110 nations... |
| 2 | Chicago University of Chicago The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890... , UC Berkeley University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA... , Harvey Mudd Harvey Mudd College Harvey Mudd College is a private residential liberal arts college of science, engineering, and mathematics, located in Claremont, California. It is one of the institutions of the contiguous Claremont Colleges, which share adjoining campus grounds.... , University of Michigan University of Michigan The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan... , Yale Yale University Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States... |
| 1 | Miami University Miami University Miami University is a coeducational public research university located in Oxford, Ohio, United States. Founded in 1809, it is the 10th oldest public university in the United States and the second oldest university in Ohio, founded four years after Ohio University. In its 2012 edition, U.S... |
The following table lists Teams with First place finishes ( competition):
| First Place | Team (s) |
|---|---|
| 27 | Harvard Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country... |
| 10 | Caltech California Institute of Technology The California Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Pasadena, California, United States. Caltech has six academic divisions with strong emphases on science and engineering... |
| 6 | MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in... |
| 4 | Toronto University of Toronto The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada... , Washington U in StL Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis is a private research university located in suburban St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1853, and named for George Washington, the university has students and faculty from all fifty U.S. states and more than 110 nations... |
| 3 | Brooklyn College Brooklyn College Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn, New York, United States.Established in 1930 by the New York City Board of Higher Education, the College had its beginnings as the Downtown Brooklyn branches of Hunter College and the City College of New... , Duke Duke University Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B... , Michigan State Michigan State University Michigan State University is a public research university in East Lansing, Michigan, USA. Founded in 1855, it was the pioneer land-grant institution and served as a model for future land-grant colleges in the United States under the 1862 Morrill Act.MSU pioneered the studies of packaging,... |
| 2 | Brooklyn Polytech, Cornell Cornell University Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions... , Waterloo University of Waterloo The University of Waterloo is a comprehensive public university in the city of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The school was founded in 1957 by Drs. Gerry Hagey and Ira G. Needles, and has since grown to an institution of more than 30,000 students, faculty, and staff... |
| 1 | UC Berkeley University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA... , UC Davis University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis is a public teaching and research university established in 1905 and located in Davis, California, USA. Spanning over , the campus is the largest within the University of California system and third largest by enrollment... , Case Western Reserve Case Western Reserve University Case Western Reserve University is a private research university located in Cleveland, Ohio, USA... , Chicago University of Chicago The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890... , Princeton Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution.... , Queen's Queen's University Queen's University, , is a public research university located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Founded on 16 October 1841, the university pre-dates the founding of Canada by 26 years. Queen's holds more more than of land throughout Ontario as well as Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex, England... |
Putnam Fellows
Since the first competition, the top five (or six, in case of a tie) scorers on the examination have been named Putnam Fellows. Within the top five, Putnam Fellows are not ranked. Students are not allowed to participate in the Putnam Competition more than four times. For example, if a high school senior chooses to officially participate, he/she effectively chooses to forfeit one of his/her years of eligibility in college (see Gabriel D. CarrollGabriel D. Carroll
Gabriel Drew Carroll is a graduate of Harvard and a current MIT student who received numerous awards in mathematics while a student. Carroll won two gold medals and a silver medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad, earning a perfect score at the 2001 International Mathematical Olympiad...
). This makes it even more of a remarkable feat to become a Putnam Fellow four times. In the history of Competition, only seven students have been Putnam Fellows four times, with nineteen others winning the award three times. The following table lists these students:
| Name | Team | Years | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Don Coppersmith Don Coppersmith Don Coppersmith is a cryptographer and mathematician. He was involved in the design of the Data Encryption Standard block cipher at IBM, particularly the design of the S-boxes, strengthening them against differential cryptanalysis... | MIT | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 |
| Arthur Rubin Arthur Rubin Arthur Leonard Rubin is an American mathematician.-Biography:As an undergraduate he placed among the top five competitors in the William Lowell Putnam Competition on four occasions , a feat matched by only six other undergraduate students since the first competition in 1938... | Purdue Purdue University Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and... , Caltech | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | 1973 |
| Bjorn Poonen Bjorn Poonen Bjorn Mikhail Poonen is a mathematician, four-time Putnam Competition winner and currently the Claude Shannon Professor of Mathematics at MIT.His research is primarily in number theory and algebraic geometry, but he has occasionally published in other subjects such as probability and computer... | Harvard | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 |
| Ravi D. Vakil | Toronto | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 |
| Gabriel D. Carroll Gabriel D. Carroll Gabriel Drew Carroll is a graduate of Harvard and a current MIT student who received numerous awards in mathematics while a student. Carroll won two gold medals and a silver medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad, earning a perfect score at the 2001 International Mathematical Olympiad... | UC Berkeley, Harvard | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 |
| Reid W. Barton Reid W. Barton Reid W. Barton was one of the most successful performers in the International Science Olympiads. He is an MIT alumnus.- Biography:Barton is the son of two environmental engineers... | MIT | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 |
| Daniel Kane | MIT | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 |
| Edward L. Kaplan | Carnegie Tech | 1939 | 1940 | 1941 | |
| Andrew M. Gleason Andrew Gleason Andrew Mattei Gleason was an American mathematician and the eponym of Gleason's theorem and the Greenwood–Gleason graph. After briefly attending Berkeley High School he graduated from Roosevelt High School in Yonkers, then Yale University in 1942, where he became a Putnam Fellow... | Yale | 1940 | 1941 | 1942 | |
| Donald J. Newman Donald J. Newman Donald J. Newman was an American mathematician and professor, excelling at the Putnam mathematics competition while an undergraduate at City College of New York and New York University, and later receiving his PhD from Harvard University in 1953.- Life and works :Newman was born in Brooklyn, New... | City College of NY | 1948 | 1949 | 1950 | |
| James B. Herreshoff IV | UC Berkeley | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | |
| Samuel Jacob Klein | City College of NY | 1953 | 1959 | 1960 | |
| Randall L. Dougherty Randall Dougherty Randall Dougherty has made contributions in widely varying areas of mathematics, including set theory,logic, real analysis, discrete mathematics, computational geometry, information theory and coding theory.... | UC Berkeley | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | |
| Eric D. Carlson | Michigan State | 1980 | 1982 | 1983 | |
| David W. Ash | Waterloo | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | |
| Noam D. Elkies Noam Elkies Noam David Elkies is an American mathematician and chess master.At age 14, Elkies received a gold medal with a perfect score at the International Mathematical Olympiad, the youngest ever to do so... | Columbia | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | |
| David J. Grabiner | Princeton | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | |
| David J. Moews | Harvard | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | |
| J. P. Grossman | Toronto | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | |
| Kiran S. Kedlaya Kiran Kedlaya Kiran Sridhara Kedlaya is an Indian American mathematician. He currently is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.... | Harvard | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | |
| Lenhard L. Ng Lenhard Ng Lenhard Ng is an American mathematician working primarily on symplectic geometry. Ng is an associate professor of mathematics at Duke University.- Personal life :... | Harvard | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | |
| Ciprian Manolescu Ciprian Manolescu Ciprian Manolescu is a Romanian mathematician. He is presently an Associate Professor in the mathematics department at the University of California, Los Angeles.... | Harvard | 1997 | 1998 | 2000 | |
| Aaron C. Pixton | Princeton | 2004 | 2005 | 2007 | |
| Yufei Zhao | MIT | 2006 | 2008 | 2009 | |
| Arnav Tripathy | Harvard | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | |
| Brian R. Lawrence | Caltech | 2007 | 2008 | 2010 | |
The following table lists all Putnam fellows from 1938 to present, with the years they placed in the top five.
| Name (Team) | Year (s) |
|---|---|
| George W. Mackey (Rice) | 1938 |
| Irving Kaplansky Irving Kaplansky Irving Kaplansky was a Canadian mathematician.-Biography:He was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, after his parents emigrated from Poland and attended the University of Toronto as an undergraduate. After receiving his Ph.D... (Toronto) | 1938 |
| Michael J. Norris (College of St. Thomas University of St. Thomas (Minnesota) The University of St. Thomas is a private, Catholic, liberal arts, and archdiocesan university located in St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States... ) | 1938 |
| Robert W. Gibson (Fort Hays Kansas State) | 1938 |
| Bernard Sherman (Brooklyn College) | 1938, 1939 |
| Abraham Hillman (Brooklyn College) | 1939 |
| Richard P. Feynman (MIT) | 1939 |
| William Nierenberg William Nierenberg William Aaron Nierenberg was an American physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and was director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1965 through 1986. He was a co-founder of the George C. Marshall Institute in 1984.- Background :Nierenberg was born on February 13, 1919, at 213 E... (City College of NY) | 1939 |
| Edward L. Kaplan (Carnegie Tech) | 1939, 1940, 1941 |
| John Cotton Maynard (Toronto) | 1940 |
| Robert Maughan Snow (George Washington George Washington University The George Washington University is a private, coeducational comprehensive university located in Washington, D.C. in the United States... ) | 1940 |
| W. J. R. Crosby (Toronto) | 1940 |
| Andrew M. Gleason Andrew Gleason Andrew Mattei Gleason was an American mathematician and the eponym of Gleason's theorem and the Greenwood–Gleason graph. After briefly attending Berkeley High School he graduated from Roosevelt High School in Yonkers, then Yale University in 1942, where he became a Putnam Fellow... (Yale) | 1940, 1941, 1942 |
| Paul C. Rosenbloom (UPenn) | 1941 |
| Richard F. Arens (UCLA) | 1941 |
| Samuel I. Askovitz (UPenn) | 1941 |
| Harold Victor Lyons (Toronto) | 1942 |
| Harvey Cohn (City College of NY) | 1942 |
| Melvin A. Preston (Toronto) | 1942 |
| Warren S. Loud (MIT) | 1942 |
| Donald A. Fraser (Toronto) | 1946 |
| Eugenio Calabi Eugenio Calabi Eugenio Calabi is a Italian American mathematician and professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in differential geometry, partial differential equations and their applications.... (MIT) | 1946 |
| Felix Browder Felix Browder Felix E. Browder is a United States mathematician.Felix Browder received his doctorate from Princeton University in 1948. He is known for his research in nonlinear functional analysis, including the theory of semigroups, monotone operators, and fixed points of Cesàro sums of non-expansive operators... (MIT) | 1946 |
| J. Arthur Greenwood (Harvard) | 1946 |
| Maxwell A. Rosenlicht (Columbia) | 1946, 1947 |
| Clarence Wilson Hewlett, Jr. (Harvard) | 1947 |
| William Turanski (UPenn) | 1947 |
| Eoin L. Whitney (Alberta University of Alberta The University of Alberta is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford, the first premier of Alberta and Henry Marshall Tory, its first president, it is widely recognized as one of the best universities in Canada... ) | 1947, 1948 |
| W. Forrest Stinespring (Harvard) | 1947, 1949 |
| George F. D. Duff (Toronto) | 1948 |
| Harry Gonshor (McGill) | 1948 |
| Leonard Geller (Brooklyn College) | 1948 |
| Robert L. Mills Robert Mills (physicist) Robert L. Mills was a physicist, specializing in quantum field theory, the theory of alloys, and many-body theory. While sharing an office at Brookhaven National Laboratory, in 1954, Chen Ning Yang and Mills proposed a tensor equation for what are now called Yang-Mills fields... (Columbia) | 1948 |
| Donald J. Newman Donald J. Newman Donald J. Newman was an American mathematician and professor, excelling at the Putnam mathematics competition while an undergraduate at City College of New York and New York University, and later receiving his PhD from Harvard University in 1953.- Life and works :Newman was born in Brooklyn, New... (City College of NY) | 1948, 1949, 1950 |
| Ariel Zemach (Harvard) | 1949 |
| David L. Yarmush (Harvard) | 1949 |
| John W. Milnor John Milnor John Willard Milnor is an American mathematician known for his work in differential topology, K-theory and dynamical systems. He won the Fields Medal in 1962, the Wolf Prize in 1989, and the Abel Prize in 2011. Milnor is a distinguished professor at Stony Brook University... (Princeton) | 1949, 1950 |
| John P. Mayberry (Toronto) | 1950 |
| Richard J. Semple (Toronto) | 1950 |
| Z. Alexander Melzak (British Columbia) | 1950 |
| Arthur P. Dempster Arthur P. Dempster Arthur Pentland Dempster is a Professor Emeritus in the Harvard University Department of Statistics. He was one of four faculty when the department was founded in 1957.He was a Putnam Fellow in 1951. He obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1956... (Toronto) | 1951 |
| Harold Widom Harold Widom Harold Widom is an American mathematician well known for his contributions to operator theory and random matrices. He was appointed to the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1968 and became professor emeritus in 1994. ... (City College of NY) | 1951 |
| Herbert C. Kranzer (NYU) | 1951 |
| Peter John Redmond (Cooper Union) | 1951 |
| James B. Herreshoff IV (UC Berkeley) | 1951, 1952, 1953 |
| Eugene R. Rodemich (Washington U in StL) | 1952 |
| Gerhard Rayna (Harvard) | 1952 |
| Richard G. Swan (Princeton) | 1952 |
| Walter L. Bailey, Jr. (MIT) | 1952 |
| Marshall L. Freimer (Harvard) | 1953 |
| Norman Bauman (Harvard) | 1953 |
| Tai Tsun Wu Tai Tsun Wu Tai Tsun Wu is an Chinese American physicist and applied physicist well known for his contributions to high-energy nuclear physics and statistical mechanics.... (Minnesota University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557... ) | 1953 |
| Samuel Jacob Klein (City College of NY) | 1953, 1959, 1960 |
| Benjamin Muckenhoupt (Harvard) | 1954 |
| James Daniel Bjorken (MIT) | 1954 |
| Leonard Evens (Cornell) | 1954 |
| William P. Hanf (UC Berkeley) | 1954 |
| Kenneth G. Wilson Kenneth G. Wilson Kenneth Geddes Wilson is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner.As an undergraduate at Harvard, he was a Putnam Fellow. He earned his PhD from Caltech in 1961, studying under Murray Gell-Mann.... (Harvard) | 1954, 1956 |
| Howard C. Rumsey, Jr. (Caltech) | 1955 |
| Jack Towber (Brooklyn College) | 1955 |
| David B. Mumford (Harvard) | 1955, 1956 |
| Trevor Barker (Kenyon) | 1955, 1956 |
| Everett C. Dade (Harvard) | 1955, 1957 |
| Richard Michael Friedberg (Harvard) | 1956 |
| David M. Bloom (Columbia) | 1956, 1957 |
| J. Ian Richards (Minnesota) | 1957 |
| Richard T. Bumby (MIT) | 1957 |
| Rohit J. Parikh (Harvard) | 1957 |
| David R. Brillinger (Toronto) | Spring 1958 |
| Donald J. C. Bures (Queen's) | Spring 1958 |
| Lawrence A. Shepp (Brooklyn Polytech) | Spring 1958 |
| Richard M. Dudley Richard M. Dudley Richard Mansfield Dudley is Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his PhD at Princeton University in 1962 under the supervision of Edward Nelson and Gilbert Hunt. He was a Putnam Fellow in 1958.... (Harvard) | Spring 1958 |
| Joseph Lipman (Toronto) | Spring 1958, Fall 1958 |
| Alan Gaisford Waterman (San Diego State) | Fall 1958 |
| John Rex Forrester Hewett (Toronto) | Fall 1958 |
| Robin C. Hartshorne Robin Hartshorne Robin Cope Hartshorne is an American mathematician. Hartshorne is an algebraic geometer who studied with Zariski, Mumford, J.-P. Serre and Grothendieck.... (Harvard) | Fall 1958 |
| Alfred W. Hales (Caltech) | Fall 1958, 1959 |
| Daniel G. Quillen (Harvard) | 1959 |
| Donald Passman (Brooklyn Polytech) | 1959 |
| Donald S. Gorman (Harvard) | 1959 |
| I. Martin Isaacs (Brooklyn Polytech) | 1959 |
| Stephen L. Adler Stephen L. Adler Stephen Louis Adler is an American physicist specializing in elementary particles and field theory.-Biography:Adler was born in New York City. He received an A.B. degree at Harvard University in 1961, where he was a Putnam Fellow, and a Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1964... (Harvard) | 1959 |
| Stephen Lichtenbaum (Harvard) | 1959 |
| Jon H. Folkman (UC Berkeley) | 1960 |
| Louis Jaeckel (UCLA) | 1960 |
| Melvin Hochster Melvin Hochster Melvin Hochster is an eminent American mathematician, regarded as one of the leading commutative algebraists active today. He is currently the Jack E. McLaughlin Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan.Hochster attended Stuyvesant High School, where he was... (Harvard) | 1960 |
| William R. Emerson (Caltech) | 1960 |
| Barry Wolk (Manitoba) | 1961 |
| Elwyn R. Berlekamp (MIT) | 1961 |
| Edward Anton Bender (Caltech) | 1961, 1962 |
| John Hathaway Lindsey (Caltech) | 1961, 1962 |
| William C. Waterhouse William C. Waterhouse William Charles Waterhouse is an American mathematician, a professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University. His research interests include abstract algebra, number theory, group schemes, and the history of mathematics... (Harvard) | 1961, 1962 |
| John William Wood (Harvard) | 1962 |
| Robert S. Strichartz (Dartmouth) | 1962 |
| Joel H. Spencer Joel Spencer Joel Spencer 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... (MIT) | 1963 |
| Lawrence A. Zalcman (Dartmouth) | 1963 |
| Lawrence J. Corwin (Harvard) | 1963 |
| Robert E. Greene (Michigan State) | 1963 |
| Stephen E. Crick, Jr. (Michigan State) | 1963 |
| Barry B. MacKichan (Harvard) | 1964 |
| Fred William Roush (North Carolina University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States... ) | 1964 |
| Roger E. Howe Roger Evans Howe Roger Evans Howe is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Mathematics at Yale University. He is well known for his contributions to representation theory, and in particular for the notion of a reductive dual pair, sometimes known as a Howe pair, and the Howe correspondence.He attended Ithaca High... (Harvard) | 1964 |
| Rufus (Robert) Bowen Rufus Bowen Robert Edward "Rufus" Bowen was an internationally known professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, who specialized in dynamical systems theory... (UC Berkeley) | 1964, 1965 |
| Vern Poythress Vern Poythress Vern Sheridan Poythress is a Calvinist philosopher and theologian and New Testament scholar.-Biography:Poythress lived on his family farm in Madera, California until he was five years old and later moved with his family to Fresno, California... (Caltech) | 1964 |
| Andreas R. Blass (Detroit) | 1965 |
| Barry Simon Barry Simon Barry Simon is an eminent American mathematical physicist and the IBM Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Caltech, known for his prolific contributions in spectral theory, functional analysis, and nonrelativistic quantum mechanics , including the connections to atomic and... (Harvard) | 1965 |
| Daniel Fendel (Harvard) | 1965 |
| Lon M. Rosen (Toronto) | 1965 |
| Marshall W. Buck (Harvard) | 1966 |
| Robert E. Maas (Santa Clara Santa Clara University Santa Clara University is a private, not-for-profit, Jesuit-affiliated university located in Santa Clara, California, United States. Chartered by the state of California and accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, it operates in collaboration with the Society of Jesus , whose... ) | 1966 |
| Robert S. Winternitz (MIT) | 1966 |
| Theodore C. Chang (MIT) | 1966 |
| Richard C. Schroeppel (MIT) | 1966, 1967 |
| David R. Haynor (Harvard) | 1967 |
| Dennis A. Hejhal (Chicago) | 1967 |
| Don B. Zagier (MIT) | 1967 |
| Peter L. Montgomery (UC Berkeley) | 1967 |
| Dean G. Huffman (Yale) | 1968 |
| Gerald S. Gras (MIT) | 1968 |
| Neal Koblitz Neal Koblitz Neal I. Koblitz is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Washington in the Department of Mathematics. He is also an adjunct professor with the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research at the University of Waterloo. He is the creator of hyperelliptic curve cryptography and the... (Harvard) | 1968 |
| Gerald A. Edgar (UC Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara, commonly known as UCSB or UC Santa Barbara, is a public research university and one of the 10 general campuses of the University of California system. The main campus is located on a site in Goleta, California, from Santa Barbara and northwest of Los... ) | 1968, 1969 |
| Don Coppersmith Don Coppersmith Don Coppersmith is a cryptographer and mathematician. He was involved in the design of the Data Encryption Standard block cipher at IBM, particularly the design of the S-boxes, strengthening them against differential cryptanalysis... (MIT) | 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971 |
| Alan R. Beale (Rice) | 1969 |
| Steven Winkler (MIT) | 1969 |
| Robert A. Oliver (Chicago) | 1969, 1970 |
| Jeffrey Lagarias Jeffrey Lagarias Jeffrey Clark Lagarias is a mathematics professor at the University of Michigan.- Education :While in high school in 1966, Lagarias studied astronomy at the Summer Science Program.... (MIT) | 1970 |
| Jockum Aniansson (Yale) | 1970 |
| Steven K. Winkler (MIT) | 1970 |
| Arthur Rubin Arthur Rubin Arthur Leonard Rubin is an American mathematician.-Biography:As an undergraduate he placed among the top five competitors in the William Lowell Putnam Competition on four occasions , a feat matched by only six other undergraduate students since the first competition in 1938... (Purdue, Caltech) | 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973 |
| Dale Peterson (Yale) | 1971 |
| David Shucker (Swarthmore) | 1971 |
| Robert Israel (Chicago) | 1971 |
| Michael Yoder (Caltech) | 1971, 1972 |
| Arthur Rothstein (Reed Reed College Reed College is a private, independent, liberal arts college located in southeast Portland, Oregon. Founded in 1908, Reed is a residential college with a campus located in Portland's Eastmoreland neighborhood, featuring architecture based on the Tudor-Gothic style, and a forested canyon wilderness... ) | 1972 |
| David Vogan David Vogan David Alexander Vogan is a mathematician at M.I.T. who works on unitary representations of simple Lie groups. He is one of the participants in the Atlas of Lie Groups and Representations.-Publications:*Some online by Vogan... (Chicago) | 1972 |
| Dean Hickerson (UC Davis) | 1972 |
| Ira Gessel (Harvard) | 1972 |
| Angelos J. Tsirimokos (Princeton) | 1973 |
| Matthew L. Ginsberg (Wesleyan Wesleyan University Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college founded in 1831 and located in Middletown, Connecticut. According to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Wesleyan is the only Baccalaureate College in the nation that emphasizes undergraduate instruction in the arts and... ) | 1973 |
| Peter G. De Buda (Toronto) | 1973 |
| David J. Anick (MIT) | 1973, 1975 |
| Grant M. Roberts (Waterloo) | 1974 |
| James B. Saxe (Union Union College Union College is a private, non-denominational liberal arts college located in Schenectady, New York, United States. Founded in 1795, it was the first institution of higher learning chartered by the New York State Board of Regents. In the 19th century, it became the "Mother of Fraternities", as... ) | 1974 |
| Karl C. Rubin Karl Rubin Karl Rubin is an American mathematician at University of California, Irvine as Thorp Professor of Mathematics. His research interest is in elliptic curves. He was the first mathematician to show that some elliptic curves over the rationals have finite Tate-Shafarevich groups... (Princeton) | 1974 |
| Philip N. Strenski (Armstrong State) | 1974 |
| Thomas G. Goodwillie (Harvard) | 1974, 1975 |
| Ernest S. Davis (MIT) | 1975 |
| Franklin T. Adams (Chicago) | 1975 |
| Christopher L. Henley (Caltech) | 1975, 1976 |
| David J. Wright (Cornell) | 1976 |
| Nathaniel S. Kuhn (Harvard) | 1976 |
| Paul M. Herdeg (Case Western Reserve) | 1976 |
| Philip I. Harrington (Washington U in StL) | 1976 |
| Steven T. Tschantz (UC Berkeley) | 1976, 1978 |
| Adam L. Stephanides (Chicago) | 1977 |
| Michael Roberts (MIT) | 1977 |
| Paul A. Vojta Paul Vojta Paul Alan Vojta is an American mathematician, known for his work in number theory on diophantine geometry and diophantine approximation.... (Minnesota) | 1977 |
| Stephen W. Modzelewski (Harvard) | 1977 |
| Russell D. Lyons (Case Western Reserve) | 1977, 1978 |
| Mark R. Kleiman (Princeton) | 1978 |
| Peter W. Shor (Caltech) | 1978 |
| Randall L. Dougherty Randall Dougherty Randall Dougherty has made contributions in widely varying areas of mathematics, including set theory,logic, real analysis, discrete mathematics, computational geometry, information theory and coding theory.... (UC Berkeley) | 1978, 1979, 1980 |
| Charles H. Walter (Princeton) | 1979 |
| Mark G. Pleszkoch (Virginia University of Virginia The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson... ) | 1979 |
| Miller Puckette Miller Puckette Miller Smith Puckette is the associate director of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts as well as a professor of music at the University of California, San Diego, where he has been since 1994.... (MIT) | 1979 |
| Richard Mifflin (Rice) | 1979 |
| Daniel J. Goldstein (Chicago) | 1980 |
| Laurence E. Penn (Harvard) | 1980 |
| Michael Raship (Harvard) | 1980 |
| Eric D. Carlson (Michigan State) | 1980, 1982, 1983 |
| Adam Stephanides (Chicago) | 1981 |
| Robin A. Pemantle (UC Berkeley) | 1981 |
| Scott R. Fluhrer (Case Western Reserve) | 1981 |
| David W. Ash (Waterloo) | 1981, 1982, 1983 |
| Michael J. Larsen (Harvard) | 1981, 1983 |
| Brian R. Hunt (Maryland) | 1982 |
| Edward A. Shpiz (Washington U in StL) | 1982 |
| Noam D. Elkies Noam Elkies Noam David Elkies is an American mathematician and chess master.At age 14, Elkies received a gold medal with a perfect score at the International Mathematical Olympiad, the youngest ever to do so... (Columbia) | 1982, 1983, 1984 |
| Gregg N. Patruno (Princeton) | 1983 |
| Benji N. Fisher (Harvard) | 1984 |
| Daniel W. Johnson (Rose-Hulman Tech Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Rose–Hulman Institute of Technology , formerly Rose Polytechnic Institute, is a small private college specializing in teaching engineering, mathematics, and science. RHIT is highly regarded for its undergraduate engineering program, which US News and World Reports ranked in 2011 as No... ) | 1984 |
| Richard A. Stong (Washington U in StL) | 1984 |
| Michael Reid (Harvard) | 1984, 1987 |
| Everett W. Howe (Caltech) | 1985 |
| Keith A. Ramsay (Chicago) | 1985 |
| Martin V. Hildebrand (Williams Williams College Williams College is a private liberal arts college located in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States. It was established in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams. Originally a men's college, Williams became co-educational in 1970. Fraternities were also phased out during this... ) | 1985 |
| Douglas S. Jungreis (Harvard) | 1985, 1986 |
| Bjorn Poonen Bjorn Poonen Bjorn Mikhail Poonen is a mathematician, four-time Putnam Competition winner and currently the Claude Shannon Professor of Mathematics at MIT.His research is primarily in number theory and algebraic geometry, but he has occasionally published in other subjects such as probability and computer... (Harvard) | 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988 |
| David I. Zuckerman (Harvard) | 1986 |
| Waldemar P. Horwat (MIT) | 1986 |
| David J. Grabiner (Princeton) | 1986, 1987, 1988 |
| David J. Moews (Harvard) | 1986, 1987, 1988 |
| Constantin S. Teleman (Harvard) | 1987 |
| John S. Tillinghast (UC Davis) | 1987 |
| Jeremy A. Kahn (Harvard) | 1988 |
| Ravi D. Vakil (Toronto) | 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991 |
| Andrew H. Kresch (Yale) | 1989 |
| Christos A. Athanasiadis (MIT) | 1989 |
| Colin M. Springer (Waterloo) | 1989 |
| Sihao Wu (Yale) | 1989 |
| William P. Cross (Caltech) | 1989 |
| Jordan Lampe (UC Berkeley) | 1990 |
| Raymond M. Sidney (Harvard) | 1990 |
| Eric K. Wepsic (Harvard) | 1990, 1991 |
| Jordan S. Ellenberg Jordan Ellenberg Jordan S. Ellenberg is a mathematician working as a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research covers a wide variety of topics within arithmetic geometry. He received both the A.B. and Ph.D... (Harvard) | 1990, 1992 |
| Joshua B. Fischman (Princeton) | 1991 |
| Xi Chen (Missouri–Rolla Missouri University of Science and Technology Missouri University of Science and Technology is an institution of higher learning located in Rolla, Missouri, United States, and part of the University of Missouri System... ) | 1991 |
| Samuel A. Kutin (Harvard) | 1991, 1992 |
| Jeffrey M. Vanderkam (Duke) | 1992 |
| Serban M. Nacu (Harvard) | 1992 |
| Adam Logan Adam Logan Adam Logan is a research mathematician and a top Canadian Scrabble player. He won the World Scrabble Championship in 2005, beating Pakorn Nemitrmansuk of Thailand 3-0 in the final. He is the only player to have won the Canadian Scrabble Championship three times... (Princeton) | 1992, 1993 |
| Craig B. Gentry (Duke) | 1993 |
| Wei-Hwa Huang Wei-Hwa Huang Wei-Hwa Huang is an award-winning American puzzler and member of the US Team for the World Puzzle Federation.... (Caltech) | 1993 |
| J. P. Grossman (Toronto) | 1993, 1994, 1995 |
| Kiran S. Kedlaya Kiran Kedlaya Kiran Sridhara Kedlaya is an Indian American mathematician. He currently is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.... (Harvard) | 1993, 1994, 1995 |
| Lenhard L. Ng Lenhard Ng Lenhard Ng is an American mathematician working primarily on symplectic geometry. Ng is an associate professor of mathematics at Duke University.- Personal life :... (Harvard) | 1993, 1994, 1995 |
| William R. Mann (Princeton) | 1994 |
| Jeremy L. Bem (Cornell) | 1994, 1996 |
| Sergey V. Levin (Harvard) | 1995 |
| Yevgeniy Dodis (NYU) | 1995 |
| Dragos N. Oprea (Harvard) | 1996 |
| Ioana Dumitriu (NYU) | 1996 |
| Robert D. Kleinberg (Cornell) | 1996 |
| Stephen S. Wang (Harvard) | 1996 |
| Daniel K. Schepler (Washington U in StL) | 1996, 1997 |
| Ovidiu Savin (Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh The University of Pittsburgh, commonly referred to as Pitt, is a state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded as Pittsburgh Academy in 1787 on what was then the American frontier, Pitt is one of the oldest continuously chartered institutions of... ) | 1997 |
| Patrick K. Corn (Harvard) | 1997 |
| Samuel Grushevsky (Harvard) | 1997 |
| Mike L. Develin (Harvard) | 1997, 1998 |
| Ciprian Manolescu Ciprian Manolescu Ciprian Manolescu is a Romanian mathematician. He is presently an Associate Professor in the mathematics department at the University of California, Los Angeles.... (Harvard) | 1997, 1998, 2000 |
| Ari M. Turner (Princeton) | 1998 |
| Nathan G. Curtis (Duke) | 1998 |
| Kevin D. Lacker (Duke) | 1998, 2001 |
| Christopher C. Mihelich (Harvard) | 1999 |
| Colin A. Percival (Simon Fraser Simon Fraser University Simon Fraser University is a Canadian public research university in British Columbia with its main campus on Burnaby Mountain in Burnaby, and satellite campuses in Vancouver and Surrey. The main campus in Burnaby, located from downtown Vancouver, was established in 1965 and has more than 34,000... ) | 1999 |
| Davesh Maulik (Harvard) | 1999 |
| Derek I.E. Kisman (Waterloo) | 1999 |
| Sabin Cautis (Waterloo) | 1999 |
| Abhinav Kumar (MIT) | 1999, 2000 |
| Pavlo Pylyavskyy (MIT) | 2000 |
| Alexander B. Schwartz (Harvard) | 2000, 2002 |
| Gabriel D. Carroll Gabriel D. Carroll Gabriel Drew Carroll is a graduate of Harvard and a current MIT student who received numerous awards in mathematics while a student. Carroll won two gold medals and a silver medal at the International Mathematical Olympiad, earning a perfect score at the 2001 International Mathematical Olympiad... (UC Berkeley, Harvard) | 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 |
| George Lee, Jr. (Harvard) | 2001 |
| Jan K. Siwanowicz (City College of NY) | 2001 |
| Reid W. Barton Reid W. Barton Reid W. Barton was one of the most successful performers in the International Science Olympiads. He is an MIT alumnus.- Biography:Barton is the son of two environmental engineers... (MIT) | 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 |
| Deniss Cebikins (MIT) | 2002 |
| Melanie E. Wood Melanie Wood Melanie Matchett Wood is an American mathematician who became the first female American to make the U.S. International Mathematical Olympiad Team. She completed her Ph.D... (Duke) | 2002 |
| Ralph C. Furmaniak (Waterloo) | 2003 |
| Ana Caraiani (Princeton) | 2003, 2004 |
| Daniel M. Kane (MIT) | 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 |
| Vladimir V. Barzov (MIT) | 2004 |
| Aaron C. Pixton (Princeton) | 2004, 2005, 2007 |
| Oleg Golberg (MIT) | 2005 |
| Matthew M. Ince (MIT) | 2005 |
| Ricky I. Liu (Harvard) | 2005 |
| Tiankai Liu (Harvard) | 2005, 2006 |
| Hansheng Diao (MIT) | 2006 |
| Po-Ru Loh (Caltech) | 2006 |
| Yufei Zhao (MIT) | 2006, 2008, 2009 |
| Jason C. Bland (Caltech) | 2007 |
| Brian R. Lawrence (Caltech) | 2007, 2008, 2010 |
| Qingchun Ren (MIT) | 2007, 2009 |
| Xuancheng Shao (MIT) | 2007 |
| Arnav Tripathy (Harvard) | 2007, 2008, 2009 |
| Seok Hyeong Lee (Stanford Stanford University The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San... ) | 2008, 2010 |
| Bohua Zhan (MIT) | 2008 |
| William Johnson (U of Washington) | 2009 |
| Xiaosheng Mu (Yale) | 2009 |
| Yu Deng (MIT) | 2010 |
| Colin P. Sandon (MIT) | 2010 |
| Alex (Lin) Zhai (Harvard) | 2010 |
Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Award winners
Since 1992, the Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Award has been available to be awarded to a female participant with a high score. It is not awarded every year. Names in bold have been Putnam Fellows at least once; the year(s) in which they were Fellows are in bold as well.| Name | Team | Year (s) |
|---|---|---|
| Dana Pascovici | Dartmouth | 1992 |
| Ruth A. Britto-Pacumio | MIT | 1994 |
| Ioana Dumitriu | NYU | 1995, 1996, 1997 |
| Wai Ling Yee | Waterloo | 1999 |
| Melanie E. Wood Melanie Wood Melanie Matchett Wood is an American mathematician who became the first female American to make the U.S. International Mathematical Olympiad Team. She completed her Ph.D... | Duke | 2001, 2002 |
| Ana Caraiani | Princeton | 2003, 2004 |
| Alison B. Miller | Harvard | 2005, 2006, 2007 |
| Viktoriya Krakovna | Toronto | 2008 |
| Yinghui Wang | MIT | 2010 |
External links
- William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition official site
- William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition results
- William Lowell Putnam Competition problems, solutions, and results archive
- Archive of Putnam Problems and Student Solutions
- Archive of Problems 1938-2003
- The Harvard-United States Military Academy Mathematics Competition of 1933: Genesis of the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition
- Searchable data base for information about careers of Putnam Fellows
- A comprehensive history of the Putnam competition.