Instructor: Edward Richmond

Syllabus.

Here are some useful links:

Official Putnam website.

Old Putnam exams and solutions.

Here is a nice Java applet on Euler's line
on the website of David Joyce at Clark University.

Platonic Solids handout.

Wikipedia page for the game of Nim.

Problem sets:

Week1: Patterns

Week2: Pigeonhole principle

Week3: Geometry

Week4: Classical Graph Theory

Week5: Algebra

Week6: Recurrence relations and Catalan numbers

Week7: Game strategy

Week8: Divisibility and Remainders

Week9: No class (Thanksgiving)