{"id":68950,"date":"2019-03-14T15:30:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T15:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oglethorpe.edu\/news\/students-take-on-the-hardest-math-test-in-the-world\/"},"modified":"2024-08-23T12:41:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T12:41:18","slug":"students-take-on-the-hardest-math-test-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/oglethorpe.edu\/news\/students-take-on-the-hardest-math-test-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Oglethorpe students impress during &#8220;hardest math test in the world&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-35938\" src=\"https:\/\/oglethorpe.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Putnam-group-1024x768.png\" alt=\"Putnam math test group\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/>In early December, six Petrels took on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maa.org\/math-competitions\/putnam-competition\">William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, <\/a>affectionately referred to as the &#8220;hardest math test in the world,&#8221;\u00a0and turned in a great performance.<\/p>\n<p>Team Oglethorpe finished in the top third of more than 400 participating teams, an extremely\u00a0impressive showing from the group, who spent their own time outside of class studying and preparing for the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Around 4,000 undergraduates participate in the competition each year. The participants work individually on six challenging math problems over two three-hour sessions, 12 total problems for the day, and are scored both individually and as an institution, with Oglethorpe students competing in three-person\u00a0teams. Cash prizes are awarded to top individual scorers, top teams and top female performance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/content.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,400000,00.html\">Time Magazine<\/a>\u00a0calls the competition an annual \u201ccoming-out party for the next generation of beautiful minds\u201d and says \u201ca high score on the Putnam can fast-track a young mathematician\u2019s career, and a team win can put a math department on the map.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Agbolade Akande \u201919,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CV7EZ-ZB9k8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Dougherty-Bliss \u201919<\/a>, Kaitlyn Harysch \u201919,<\/strong> <strong>Miguel Lara &#8217;19<\/strong>, <strong>Parrish Studebaker &#8217;22<\/strong>, and <strong>Christina Minor &#8217;20<\/strong> all competed in the 2018\u00a0edition. 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