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 26     MC 4021     Pigeonhole Principle     Solutions     Problems  
              Induction and Recursion     Solutions      
  2     Oct 3     MC 4021     Combinatorics     Solutions     Problems  
  3     Oct 24     MC 4021     Probability     Solutions     Problems  
  4     Oct 31     MC 4021     Polynomials     Solutions     Problems  
  5     Nov 7     MC 4061     Sequences and Series     Solutions     Problems  
  6     Nov 14     MC 4061     Derivatives and Integrals     Solutions     Problems  
  7     Nov 21     MC 4021     Number Theory     Solutions     Problems  
  8     Nov 28     MC 4021     Linear Algebra     Solutions     Problems  
  9             Game Theory     Solutions      



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.