“No other school had even half that many.”Ĭohn and members of MIT’s team first learned of the Putnam triumph via Wikipedia. “There were 87 MIT students in the top 442 this year, which is amazing,” Cohn adds. This year’s median score was around one point out of 120 points available, so even students who scored zero were in good company.” “There’s almost no partial credit given, so, for example, on question B6 this year, exactly zero students received full credit. “The Putnam exam is brutally graded,” explains Henry Cohn, an adjunct professor of applied mathematics who helped students prepare for the Putnam by teaching - along with Abhinav Kumar, an associate professor of applied mathematics - 18.A34 (Problem Solving Seminar). The Institute not only won the team competition - placing ahead of runners-up Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford University - but also placed four students in the top five individual spots, an achievement that earns those contestants designation as “Putnam Fellows”: sophomore Mitchell Lee, junior Zipei Nie, freshman Bobby Shen, and freshman David Yang.Ī large number of other MIT students also delivered strong performances on the famously challenging six-hour, 12-question exam. and Canada, represented a sweeping victory for MIT. The recently announced results of the annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, the prestigious undergraduate mathematics contest that this year included more than 4,100 students from 557 colleges and universities across the U.S.
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