The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition

Announcement of winners of the forty-seventh competition held on December 6, 1986

Winning Teams

Rank

School

Team Members (in alphabetical order)

1

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Douglas S. Jungreis, Bjorn M. Poonen, David J. Zuckerman

2

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, ST. LOUIS

Daniel N. Ropp, Dougin A. Walker, Japheth L.M. Wood

3

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY

Michael J. McGrath, David P. Moulton, Christopher S. Welty

4

YALE UNIVERSITY

Thomas O. Andrews, Kamal F. Khuri-Makdisi, David R. Steinsaltz

5

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

David Blackston, Jim P. Ferry, Waldemar P. Horwat

The first place team receives an award of $5,000 and each member of the team receives $250. The awards for second place are $2,500 and $200; for third place $1,500 and $150; for fourth place $1,000 and $100; and for fifth place $500 and $50.

In each of the following categories, the listing is in alphabetical order.

The Putnam Fellows--The Six Highest Ranking Individuals

Each receives an award of $500.

DAVID J. GRABINER

Princeton University

WALDEMAR P. HORWAT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

DOUGLAS S. JUNGREIS

Harvard University

DAVID J. MOEWS

Harvard University

BJORN M. POONEN

Harvard University

DAVID J. ZUCKERMAN

Harvard University

The Next Four Highest Ranking Individuals

Each receives an award of $250.

YONG YAO DU

University of Waterloo

GREGORY J. KUPERBERG

Harvard University

JOHN A. OVERDECK

Stanford University

MICHAEL REID

Harvard University

Honorable Mention: Teams

UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

Wayne J. Broughton, Marek J. Radzikowski, Russil Wvong

CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Leland Brown, Stanley Chen, Darien G. Lefkowitz

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

Douglas Davidson, David J. Grabiner, Randall G. Rose

RICE UNIVERSITY

Charles R. Ferenbaugh, Thomas Hyer, John M. Steinke

UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO

Yong Yao Du, Eric Veech, Minh Tue Vo

Honorable Mention: Individuals

THOMAS O. ANDREWS, Yale University

DAVID P. MOULTON, University of California, Berkeley

JOHN B. BOYLAND, University of California, Davis

MATTHEW D. MULLIN, Princeton University

WILLIAM CHEN, Auburn University

DU NGUYEN, University of Ottawa

CONSTANTINE N. COSTES, Harvard University

RAVI K. RAMAKRISHNA, Cornell University

WILLIAM P. CROSS, California Institute of Technology

DANIEL N. ROPP, Washington University, St. Louis

HENRI R. DARMON, McGill University

RANDALL G. ROSE, Princeton University

MICHAEL B. DAVIS, Case Western Reserve University

DAVID B. SECREST, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana

SAMUEL S. DOOLEY, Texas A. & M. University

KENNETH W. SHIRRIFF, University of Waterloo

GLENN D. ELLISON, Harvard University

STEPHEN A. SMITH, University of Waterloo

BRYAN K. FEIR, University of Waterloo

THERON W. STANFORD, California Institute of Technology

CHARLES R. FERENBAUGH, Rice University

JOHN M. STEINKE, Rice University

JAMES P. FERRY, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

DAVID R. STEINSALTZ, Yale University

PATRICK T. HEADLEY, Case Western Reserve University

CONSTANTIN T. TELEMAN, Indiana University, Bloomington

EARL A. HUBBELL, California Institute of Technology

DOUGIN A. WALKER, Washington University, St. Louis

WILLIAM J. JOCKUSCH, Carleton College

CHRISTOPHER S. WELTY, University of California, Berkeley

DANIEL W. JOHNSON, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

KARL M. WESTERBERG, Carnegie-Mellon University

KAMAL F. KHURI-MAKDISI, Yale University

JAPHETH L.M. WOOD, Washington University, St. Louis

DARIEN G. LEFKOWITZ, California Institute of Technology

JAMES C. YEH, Princeton University

MICHAEL J. McGRATH, University of California, Berkeley



A total of 2,094 students from 358 colleges and universities in Canada and the United States participated in the Competition. There were teams from 270 institutions. More complete details will appear in the American Mathematical Monthly.

March 1, 1987
Leonard F. Klosinski, Director; Gerald L. Alexanderson and Loren C. Larson, Associate Directors
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