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 Saturday from 2:00pm to 5:00pm.

We have a discord server.

Here are the problems, and some solutions.


  Week     Date     Location     Lessons     Solutions     Assorted  
  1     Sep 20     MC 4020     Pigeonhole Principle     Solutions     Problems  
              Induction and Recursion     Solutions      
  2     Sep 27     MC 4020     Combinatorics     Solutions     Problems  
  3     Oct 4     MC 4020     Probability     Solutions     Problems  
  4     Oct 25     MC 4020     Polynomials     Solutions     Problems  
  5     Nov 1     MC 4020     Sequences and Series     Solutions     Problems  
  6     Nov 8     MC 4059     Derivatives and Integrals     Solutions     Problems  
  7     Nov 15     MC 4020     Number Theory     Solutions     Problems  
  8     Nov 22     MC 4020     Linear Algebra     Solutions     Problems  
  9     Nov 29     MC 4020     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.

Zoom link.