The UGA Putnam Team soundly defeated the Florida Putnam Team at the latest William Lowell Putnam Competition, with a ranking of 62 for UGA versus 102 for Florida.
The Putnam contest, which has been called by Time Magazine the "World's Toughest Math Test", consists of 12 challenging problems, to be solved over 6 hours. Each problem is graded on a 0-10 point scale, for a maximal total score of 120 points.
3753 students from 516 colleges in the U.S. and Canada participated in the 68th annual William Lowell Putnam Competition, held December 1, 2007. The results are now in, and the team contest was won by Harvard, followed by Princeton, MIT, Stanford, and Duke.
As in past years, nobody came close to achieving a perfect score: The three highest scores among the 3753 participants were 110, 91, and 90 points. A score of 80 points, or two thirds of the maximal score, was enough to place in the top ten; 60 points was enough for a top 1 percent ranking, and 10 points (corresponding to a single problem solved correctly) guaranteed a place among the top third of all participants.
The highest scoring UGA student was Philip Mote (24 points), followed closely by Alex Rice (22 points), Will Whiteside (21 points) and John Doyle (20 points). Thanks to all who participated, and congratulations!
Some of the data above was obtained from http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~hildebr/putnam/putnam07results.html