Recreational Problem Sessions


Each fall, usually during the months of October and November, there is a weekly recreational Problem Solving Session.
This is intended to help students prepare for the Putnam competition.
At the sessions, students are given some mathematical problems to solve.
This year, the sessions will be on Friday from 5:30pm to 8:30pm.

We have a discord server and a Piazza forum.

Here are the problems, and some solutions.


  Week     Date     Location     Lessons     Solutions     Assorted  
  1     Sep 22     MC 1085     Pigeonhole Principle     Solutions     Problems  
              Induction and Recursion     Solutions      
  2     Sep 29     MC 1085     Combinatorics     Solutions     Problems  
  3     Oct 6     MC 1085     Probability     Solutions     Problems  
  4     Oct 20     MC 1085     Polynomials     Solutions     Problems  
  5     Oct 27     MC 1085     Sequences and Series     Solutions     Problems  
  6     Nov 3     MC 1085     Derivatives and Integrals     Solutions     Problems  
  7     Nov 10     MC 1085     Number Theory     Solutions     Problems  
  8     Nov 17     MC 1085     Linear Algebra     Solutions     Problems  
  9     Nov 24     MC 1085     Game Theory     Solutions     Problems  



Extra Resources

MATH 249 (Introduction to Combinatorics) Lecture notes.

My MATH 145 Lecture notes.

Here is the webpage for last year's sessions.