Mathematics Department

Mathematics Competition!

 

The Annual CSU Freshman-Sophomore
Mathematics Competition

Friday, March 27, 2009
4:30-7 PM in RT-1516

Box lunches will be provided by the Mathematics Department.

First Prize: $250
Second Prize: $150
Third Prize: $100

This competition is open to all regularly enrolled CSU students who have taken at most one mathematics course numbered above 300.

Sign up in the Mathematics Department, RT-1515, by 5:00 p.m. on Monday, March 23.

The background for the exam is basic algebra and geometry, very elementary number theory, and calculus; no upper-division coursework is necessary.

 

Sample Problems

2009 Probelms and Solutions

2008 Probelms and Solutions

2007 Probelms and Solutions

 

Winners:

2009 Daniel Kaplun (First place),  Junle Qian (Second place), Prasenjit Bose (Third place)
2008 Jonathan Gleason (First place), Evgeny Zolotarev (Second place), Adesola Saba (Third place)
2007 Viktor Kitsis (First place), Dan Levtonyuk (Second place), Mikias Fisseha Itanna (Third place), Vincent Cestaro, Adesola Saba, and Nick Yates (Honorable Mention)

 

Contest Committee: Ivan Soprunov, Brian M. Scott