MA 481: Advanced Problem-Solving Seminar

3 credits

Fall 2025 Lecture Upper Division
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Seminar intended to prepare students for the national Putnam examination in mathematics.

Learning Outcomes

1Learn about various, more advanced techniques of how to approach Olympiad undergraduate type problems within areas such as number theory, combinatorics, algebra, analysis and geometry.

2Learn various angles of approaching a proof and how to properly conceptualize it.

3Learn how to properly write (justify) the arguments within a mathematical proof at a high rigor level imposed by the Putnam contest.

Course MA 481 from Purdue University - West Lafayette.

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Victor D Lie

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3:00 pm
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Victor D Lie

003
3:00 pm
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