Math 289, Problem Solving

Fall 2004

Harm Derksen

This course will take place on Wednesdays, 3pm-5pm in 224 Dennison. Office hours, phone number, address can be found here. This time, we will use the book

Loren C. Larson, Problem-Solving through Problems, Problem books in Mathematics, Springer, 1983.

Some interesting web resources are:

The official William Lowell Putnam Competition webpage.
Putnam Competition Archive (problems and solutions of recent years)
The University of Michigan Undergraduate Mathematics Competition (problems and solutions of previous years)
cut the knot (nice math website with many puzzles)

Problem Sets:

Problem Set 1:pdf, ps, dvi.
Problem Set 2:pdf, ps, dvi.
Problem Set 3:pdf, ps, dvi.
Problem Set 4:pdf, ps.
Problem Set 5:pdf, ps.
Problem Set 6:pdf, ps.
Problem Set 7:pdf, ps.
Problem Set 8:pdf, ps.
Problem Set 9:pdf, ps.
Problem Set 10:pdf, ps.
Problem Set 11:pdf, ps.
Problem Set 10:pdf, ps.

Last modified: 11/23/2004.