The Putnam Archive

The William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition is a North American math contest for college students, organized by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). Each year on the first Saturday in December, several thousand US and Canadian students spend 6 hours (in two sittings) trying to solve 12 problems. Individual and team winners (and their schools, in the latter case) get some money and a few minutes of fame.

This web site contains problem statements, solutions, and competition results for recent years.

Some additional resources concerning the Putnam competition include the following.

This page is maintained by Kiran Kedlaya; contact me with corrections and other comments about this material only (including additional scans of historical results summaries). I cannot assist with exam administration. If you are a student, see your school's Putnam coordinator; if you are a coordinator, see the MAA's Putnam home page for instructions.

Results from the 2023 competition, held Saturday, December 2, are now posted.

Year Problems Solutions Winners Scores
2023 TeX PDF TeX PDF HTML PDF HTML
2022 TeX PDF TeX PDF HTML PDF HTML
2021 TeX PDF TeX PDF HTML PDF HTML
2020 TeX PDF TeX PDF unofficial (see footnote)
2019 TeX PDF TeX PDF HTML PDF HTML
2018 TeX PDF TeX PDF HTML PDF HTML
2017 TeX PDF TeX PDF HTML PDF HTML
2016 TeX PDF TeX PDF HTML PDF HTML
2015 TeX PDF TeX PDF HTML PDF HTML
2014 TeX PDF TeX PDF HTML PDF HTML
2013 TeX PDF TeX PDF HTML PDF HTML
2012 TeX PDF TeX PDF HTML   HTML
2011 TeX PDF TeX PDF HTML PDF HTML
2010 TeX PDF TeX PDF HTML PDF HTML
2009 TeX PDF TeX PDF HTML PDF HTML
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2007 TeX PDF TeX PDF HTML   HTML
2006 TeX PDF TeX PDF HTML PDF HTML
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1994 TeX PDF   HTML   HTML
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1988 TeX PDF   HTML PDF HTML
1987 TeX PDF   HTML PDF HTML
1986 TeX PDF   HTML PDF HTML
1985 TeX PDF   HTML PDF HTML

Footnote: the "2020" competition was postponed to February 20, 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, then held in an unofficial mode with no prizes or official results.