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Anonymous Mon 12 Aug 19:01:19 2019 No.10882821 View Reply Original Report

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What does /sci/ think of the Putnam? Anyone here ever taken it?

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Anonymous Mon 12 Aug 2019 19:08:20 No.10882832 Report

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>>10882821
I miss the lad who made the Putnam threads.
A true Remibro.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 12 Aug 2019 19:11:31 No.10882840 Report

Quoted By: >>10882847

>>10882821
>Anyone here ever taken it?
No, because I'm not from the right country but the Putnam has some of the highest quality number theory problems I've ever seen. I use them to train our IMO teams.

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Anonymous Mon 12 Aug 2019 19:12:53 No.10882843 Report

Quoted By: >>10882847 >>10882860

i took it, i sucked

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 12 Aug 2019 19:15:48 No.10882847 Report

Quoted By: >>10882879 >>10884345

>>10882832
Glad to see this isnt too off topic then
>>10882840
>our imo teams
I never knew about the imo until i had graduated, fucking school system
Hows the training work? Im making up for lost time by taking the Putnam this december but have 0 experience in math competitions
>>10882843
Score? Assuming its less than 10?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 12 Aug 2019 19:18:20 No.10882854 Report

Quoted By: >>10882856

>>10882821
I will crush all you faggots this December with a 120 score

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 12 Aug 2019 19:21:10 No.10882856 Report

Quoted By: >>10884788

>>10882854
Bring it vro
You actually probably will
What year are you?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 12 Aug 2019 19:21:55 No.10882860 Report

Quoted By: >>10882862

>>10882821
>>10882843
I took it, I got a 1 which put my in the 50%tile

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 12 Aug 2019 19:24:11 No.10882862 Report

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>>10882860
Youre in good company
What did your math background look like? Had you taken any/many abstract math courses?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 12 Aug 2019 19:33:06 No.10882879 Report

Quoted By: >>10882885

>>10882847
>Hows the training work? Im making up for lost time by taking the Putnam this december but have 0 experience in math competitions

Well, we are not US or China that have real training. We are small country that has only ever gotten bronze at IMO. For us training just means I get the kids together at a university and we start doing problems hoping that they learn something. If you have 0 experience in math competitions, just read a book specifically about competition type problems and how to approach them. It is way different from both university math and real math.

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Anonymous Mon 12 Aug 2019 19:38:22 No.10882885 Report

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>>10882879
Interesting, i think ill do that. Are there any books you would recommend? And my uni has a one credit hour seminar solely for Putnam prep that you can enroll in or just attend as you want, so I might add that if my schedule permits

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Anonymous Mon 12 Aug 2019 19:42:25 No.10882893 Report

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>>10882885
There's a book specifically for Putnam called "Putnam and Beyond" with over 1000 problems. You could do that, but only if you are really smart and can take failure without giving up because right off the bat I'm telling you, you'll likely not be able to solve even 1% of the problems in that book. An easier alternative is Paul Zeitz's The Art and Craft of Problem Solving.

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Anonymous Mon 12 Aug 2019 19:44:52 No.10882895 Report

Quoted By: >>10882955 >>10883118

Seth Putnam was based, didn't know he was also a scientist, cool.

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Anonymous Mon 12 Aug 2019 20:17:01 No.10882955 Report

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>>10882895
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNvOZ5UMvMc
Based Seth BTFO brainlets

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Anonymous Mon 12 Aug 2019 20:21:05 No.10882961 Report

Quoted By: >>10883118

>>10882821
I got 60 on it last year

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 12 Aug 2019 21:43:55 No.10883118 Report

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>>10882893
Awesome, thanks so much! Ill definitely do it, ive been going over old putnams and i havent gotten a single one all the way through but once i see the psth they are going down it totally clicks and i can follow it to the end. Some of those solutions are truly elegant
>>10882895
>>10882955
Thank you for this
>>10882961
(X) Doubt

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Anonymous Tue 13 Aug 2019 11:13:27 No.10884345 Report

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>>10882847
i got a zero cuz im retarded

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 13 Aug 2019 11:22:52 No.10884357 Report

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I'll probably try when I get into Uni. The thing is that all the experience I have with math competitions comes from my third world country. Even with national awards there you are worthless; they never train you for IMO nor anything similar to USAMO (the best we've ever got for IMO was silver and that was in fucking 2001).
Also, because of immigration issues I haven't practice math in a year or so, so I guess I'll be scoring no more than 5.

Is it worth it to buy the AoPS books?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 13 Aug 2019 11:32:56 No.10884370 Report

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Waste of time. Nobody scores well unless you're an ultra-autist at MIT.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 13 Aug 2019 14:01:30 No.10884680 Report

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>>10882821
/sci/ has no math level.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 13 Aug 2019 15:20:08 No.10884788 Report

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>>10882856
Ending my 3rd

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Anonymous Tue 13 Aug 2019 17:51:29 No.10885071 Report

Quoted By: >>10885084 >>10885113 >>10885344

One of my best friends got a 25. He's a fucking savant, but never did any high school olympiad.

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Anonymous Tue 13 Aug 2019 17:58:58 No.10885084 Report

Quoted By: >>10885344

>>10885071
Should I be impressed by that?

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Anonymous Tue 13 Aug 2019 18:28:23 No.10885113 Report

Quoted By: >>10885344

>>10885071
>25
>savant
LMAOing at you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 13 Aug 2019 20:22:00 No.10885344 Report

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>>10885071
>>10885084
>>10885113
Ive seen higher but 25 is still very impressive. He either got full marks on 2 questions and half on one, or more likely, got partial on anywhere for 4 to all 12 (likely 4-6), which is pretty great if you ask me

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