America's toughest math exam
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- Опубліковано 31 лип 2024
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2018 solutions: kskedlaya.org/putnam-archive/...
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*gets 0*
Son I’m so proud of you
Meanwhile, in the nearest Asian household...
@@rezandrarizkyirianto-1933 EVEN UR BRADA CAN DO THIS
I only get a compliment from my parents when i get a perfect score...
@@eloycalasang nothing beyond your work lol
Me too. She nailed it. The game is called state the obvious and be human. She can not remember her own "curse". I am now in charge of my own collective memory.
"12 questions in total and each worth 10 points!" ANSWER 120. I actually got that part
You might be a genius
And i failed to do that even
Wait, how did you get 120
i thought the total would be 100
@@paeturis 10×12=120
Americans: solve hard math problems
Also americans: think europe is a country
to be fair, most americans don't solve hard math problems
That’s very stereotypical and almost all Americans don’t solve hard math problems
But its true
also americans: think wearing a mask is political
I have never met an American who has said Europe was a country.
Teacher: The exam is not going to be hard
The exam:
This really feels like it. For us. The ones unable to do math. Finally more people can feel us
Κατι τέτοια βλέπεις και λες σιγά τις πανελληνιες
Lol I learn teachers like that appear in everywhere in the world.
@@ralphspencer9992 lmfao
Same huhu I can't even do percentages let alone this
I'm a genius with a super high IQ, it would take me like 2 minutes to finish this test and get a zero.
😂😂 what will you do? It's a subjective paper.
@@Savitakumari-mk8qo by contradiction hence proved
@@manudagur7940 savage
@Foam Farmer lmfao😂
Ohh boi
You got me in first half
Geniuses see math, all I saw was hieroglyphics.
@Shaun Sharted i fucking saw tuaregean and hundi
Lol me to 😂
@@hayatburak9252 hindi*
On a serious note you don't need to be a genius to know what a symbol means. Either you have read its explanation or you haven't. If you have read the explanation of a symbol then just like people with 80 IQ can understand words after hearing their meaning so can they do with symbols.
Geniuses are overrated, what matters is knowledge. Quick thinking can be overcome with effort, patience, and grit.
Sure it's not like they can't do that too, but we can all do alot better than we are currently doing with *godlike preperation* before a task.
@@cyberneticbutterfly8506 ok
I took the Putnam. It was extremely hard. I got maybe 1 or 2 questions. I specialized in Mathematics. I came top of my class in my entire University of Calgary in 1992, but still couldn't ace this test. It's really, really difficult.
I was going to UoC last year for CS but i found a more affordable one that is just aa good.
@@ArchMithrillas6976 which one (I’m HS batch of 23)
Good on you for even _TRYING!_
as one of my teachers told us in Physics, if you were able to solve 1 of the world top 20 problems, that is an achievement, this exam should be thought like that.
The actual geniuses sitting this test would just put their pen down and go home, either way, you still achieve the average. Win, win
A few years ago, my younger brother walked into this exam unprepared and scored 11/120. He was the highest scoring student at his University that year and his name is on a little plaque in the math department somewhere along with other high scorers.
Yes it proves how hard these test is! Unlike the jokes who say Asians do this test on a daily basis, but that's not true! Asians are hard workers and good in math, but this test is really challenging! Getting 10 points would be a good score and getting 40 would mean you know a lot of math.
Lol
@@johnclayton4946 WHAT😓
It is called the Putnam. It is not unusual for most to score zero.
@@johnclayton4946 -- Getting that score and "knowing a lot of math" are not equivalent. There is
the big pressure of the exam: the newness of type of exam for many, the types of questions,
sitting around others taking it, the time limit pressure, having to be creative in a short time, etc.
Knowing "a lot of math" and performing near that score are not good indicators of each other.
Elementary: I love math! It’s too easy
College: What have I done?
Math was always hard for me even in elementary school.
Before college math: its like paint by numbers
College math: its like minecraft, except you have to write the code in assembly from scratch to play it
@@BlastinRope really???
@@anurag.thakur
In your foundations of math/logic class you’d derive and prove counting and elementary arithmetic from scratch.
(“Scratch” here meaning formal and pure logical principles, like induction).
In your abstract/modern algebra class you’ll derive and prove all your high school algebra from scratch (although high school “algebra” classes often contain much analysis as well).
And in your real analysis class you’ll prove and derive all your precalculus and calculus from scratch.
In addition to proving cool stuff like a*b=b*a from the definition of counting, you’ll also learn about more abstract generalizations of those things.
You’ll answer questions like:
“What are number systems weaker and stronger than the reals?”
“Can you always cut a pair of polygons’ area in half perfectly with a line?”
“What happens if we generalize functions and calculus to versions defined on different non-Euclidean shapes, or higher dimensional analogs of our current system?”
“How many ways can something be symmetric, in every sense of the word?”
“How can 3-D space be curved in 4-D the same way 2-D space can be curved in 3-D?”
Im an elementary student. Why is english and math coming together to make algebra. I’m not a big fan of it yet.
Those who received full marks on this exam are considered extremely smart...
But what about the person (people) who wrote this test 🤯💀🤔
The people who made it up could have days/weeks to construct the problems.
Yes man 😬
Usually tests like these gather questions from people who are qualified in this subject.
My biology professor sends a few questions to the organization that creates the MCAT exam and they pay him for his questions if they are good. Also, if his questions aren't up to par or to their liking, then they won't accept his questions and jot his name on a list that tells them to never receive his questions ever again.
@@Brown-Penguin Interesting! 🤔
@@sabirseth7655 scientists writes those questions
I've been living in America for my whole life now and I've legit never heard of this test.
Well you did now
Maybe cause your uneducated person sleeping on streets and you watching this video with the phone that you just stole from someone else.
@@abelbro3550 lol
@@abelbro3550 LMAO
It knows better than to venture out in public
I took this exam in 1999 and my score was 5 which I later found out is above the median! Yay!
Okay?
Hats off to you...
Aye niceu!!!
Congratulations!!
Why is the last few generations getting asians too smart?
Americans: This is our toughest math exam
Asian middle schooler: *Hold my chopsticks*
Einstein : Huh, kids these days😏
Not all Asians use chopsticks
@@DineshVutukuru _yes they do_
*Hold my soysauce*
Actually, we do have our own mathematics competition, That horrible for us.
An Asian walks in
"Hey dad, is that the beginners math test that you gave me 10 years ago ?"
I can confirm
Fun fact:''The four guys who received a perfect score were Asian!'' This test is actually hard!
@@johnclayton4946 yes I know the test is hard, just wanted to make some asian jokes xD
I did maths at uni with alot of Asian dudes, the percentage of thier high performance compared to other Asians were exactly like everyone else.
The difference is they have higher work ethics and don't give up easily.
I have so much respect for the people who made the exam . So intelligent 🙂
0 IQ lol 😂
I have absolutely no idea what any of it means
Didi kuch naya likho😂😂
Haha I have ZERO knowledge ahahhahaha
Jee advanced laughing in corner and second toughest exam a jee asiprant can solve these problems in 5 sec
WHY DO I WATCH VIDEOS OF OTHER EXAMS WHILE I SHOULD BE LEARNING FOR MY OWN EXAMS TOMMOROW
Ok boomer
@@eeyayacoolguy2014 shut up man
@@frosty8655 no u
Who knows maybe you'll end up getting this exam...
Maybe to elevate yourself by knowing your exam is not that hard after all!
*Looks at exam*
Me: I’m Jared, 19
And I never learnt how to fucking read
oml😂
From Ohio right ? 😂 I think I know you
@@mehrianasilvinia560 Omg , Yess
In this exam, if I get 0 instead of
- 10000000 I'll consider my self a genius
aha a fellow Genius
Here before this comment blows
Ramanujan : "That's a _piece_ _of_ sheet"
Wasn't Ramanujan not great at giving proofs
lol
@@rrohitamalan He was, he didn't want to.
LOLL
He died in 1920 and this exam started in 1927
Americans: This is our toughest math exam
Indian highscooler: Hey that's my homework worksheet
Not really. Try solving Putnam exam questions and tell me if they aren't the stuff nightmares are made of!
Jee advanced is similar to putnam (mainly) but jee is exam for high school
Rajnish Sharma yeah right. There’s a reason Putnam is world renowned
ARSH RADHANPURA true af.I did many of these questions in 12th standard
If you are regular kid you wont be able to solve no more than 2 or 3 in your dizziest dreams
I participated in this got 1 point. I was one of 6 students at my community college that scored a point... it was very challenging experience 😂
by looking at your profile it almost seems like you are trolloing ! for what reason or gin im not sure but,more power to you if that makes you happy
@@Brian.Martin don't judge a book by its cover :)
ohhh snap
Congratulations
@@Brian.Martin I can't fathom your reasoning.
I can't understand what you're doing, but I can't help watching your videos and feeling inspired to start my journey back into math. I wasn't a diligent student so I graduated with algebra II being my highest math. Now that I'm studying logic, I have a sudden desire to learn harder math. My brother, who's a decade younger than I, thinks it's too late for me, but that just prods me more-the thought that I have, if I make it to eighty, only 50 years left to achieve my highest intelligence is both sad and exciting.
Thanks for the videos. And Keep posting.
how’s it going for you now
The pigeonhole principle is often super useful for some proofs involving modular arithmetic. I just had a problem set a couple weeks ago that was benefitted by its inclusion!
120 marks and the median is 1?! Thats crazy.
Yes that's how it is
However I would say the difficulty is mainly because WE don't know how to connect the different parts of Mathematics. And this problem might be from the way of teaching Maths (but also all subjects in general)
Our maths exams are of 500 marks I'm just in grade 7
The median is one because I scored 120 and the other 119 0.
@@iwillspam5985 JEE advanced is the toughest exam of the world
@@Yashkumar-pv5tj not as difficult as Putnam
Am I the only one that goes straight to the comment section when ever watching a video? lol
I highly doubt that.
@@mondiramaji791 you killed him
Not even close hehe
No I am also present here😋
420
0:53 finally, an exam where I'll be on equal grounds with everyone else
Never have I been so proud to get a ten on a test!
Just looking at the questions gives me anxiety
Ianized tv I wanna jump off
you have nothing to prove to anybody
I’m still good since I won’t be taking this kind of math in at least 3-4 years
@@LuisMartinez-ih2oc soon you'll be looking back on it wondering where the time went.
A1 looks doable, by checking (3/2018 - 1/a) for all integers between 2018/3 to 2*(2018/3). That's about 700 numbers for 3 hours, which sounds just about doable. I'm guessing that's not the intended solution, but hey, a proof is a proof.
I'm afraid I might score negative points by just looking at it :o
We're going in the Z domain :0
@sbcontt YT not if we go in a different dimension, let the Z Domain, from the negative line be a dimension outside natural numbers.. now it works, counting like a factorial, 1 becomes -9 because we iterated over the 10 positive numbers, problem solved, now we are getting our well deserved negative score
@@RazorM97 I was thinking we'd undergo a bilinear transformation ... but knowing my luck with this stuff, I would get stuck going around and around on the unit circle ...
@@vk2ig we can only dream.... cannot wait to get the negative 9 though
hahahahaha
* Indian's have entered the chat *
@@TheBigMug exactly.
Yup one live eg here 😂
@@TheBigMug I’m Indian too that’s why I commented this. 😂
@@elinasvideodiary 😶😶😂😂
😂 I just searched toughest exam
Now I see Indians fighting people.
I am not totally speechless about this
Cuz most of indian students are immature.
I am Indian too I am speaking with experience
She smiles, I smile. She keeps smiling, I keep smiling.
You will never have her, pajeet.
@@mortkebab2849 That's true bro.
@@mortkebab2849 In my dreams...It is wonderful.
@@grantkruse1812 That means you have nothing in real life.
She keeps living, you keep simping.
Gets 1%
Parents: ‘we’re so proud of you’
Chinese parent: you are a disgraceto your family
I would be proud of a 1%
@@ayushshaw5446 🤣🤣😂.
@@ayushshaw5446 also “sharma ji ke bete ko 1.00001% mila.” “Community mein nak kat di.”” Aajase tu mera beta nahi hai”
@@ihaveadream7858 same in India but worst
The lowest cutoff for some kind of recognition in this exam is to be Top 500. Back as a freshman (2011) I managed to score 12 but unfortunately the cutoff for Top 500 was 13.
This gave me confidence to do better in my sophomore year where I promptly scored 0 and retired from math contests.
💀💀💀💀
This kind of stuff used to melt my brain at school. I still skip pages with endless equations to this date..
the smile with which you are explaining is just awesome
You should see my face after receiving question paper in exam hall :)
Why is she happy all the time watching question papers?? I cry watching them. 😭😭😭😭😭😭
Some women just want to watch the world learn
It's funny that i get similar problems with the 2018 thing... fml
@@Jerry113 *burn
Because she is smart and is interested in things that you will never understand because you are an useless dumbass.
@@rustyshackelford4613 Damn calm down why you so mad? Who hurt you?
I had a friend in high school who graduated a semester early specifically so he could spend 10 hours a day practicing for this. I believe he scored somewhere between 90-100 and received a full ride to MIT. We all jokingly referred to him as the “Math God” in school for a reason 😂
Damn
@Foam Farmer I think he meant that he finished undergrad early to study for this and then got into MIT for grad school
@@ThatDereKid You can take this test while in high school. Also, i think what he did is: graduated high school, spent a year studing only for this exam, applied to MIT, get accepted and then take the exam.
He should have been given his PhD for accomplishing that.
Geez
Thanks lady, through your help .Now I can easily get that which I want otherwise I have to do lot of struggle . I appreciate and respect your work you are a really good person
Very interesting insights! Thank you!
I'm a simple man, I see maths and my brain says nope.
Lol
same here
I care about math that will help in the general world. I don’t care about complex math unless I want a job that uses complex math.
@@swisscheeseanimations So true...
There's no actual reason to be afraid of math. What you're saying is you're afraid of thinking.
People like you contribute to the math fear that makes people dumber. nice work.
So you're telling me that I did as well as at least 50% of the people? I'll take that.
@Mouleesh Just by looking at it you get a zero xD, which is the mark half of the students actually doing it get
@Mouleesh 😂
You mean, you're happy with an average score? Pathetic.
@@qekruxt5089
It's even more pathetic not being able to get such a simple joke. You must be fun at parties
@@Adrian-mg5bl You're the pathetic one, he was obviously dicking around. You literally didn't recognise a joke while criticising just that.
Reviewing previous Putnam exams seems to be a good idea to get used to these kinds of exam questions.
The variety of questions is amazing
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What the hell
Lunch break in exam
An ordinary exam in India is for 3 hours and we are not allowed to go to bathroom in class test even
@Avantika yes
It's a 6 hour exam, consiting of 2 papers
Yeah!
Exactly
True
I got a 0 on this, but I did manage to get 10 on the 2017 exam
yea I got 9 on the 2017. I got 7 points on the question that was some proof about lines and I got 2 more on another one I forgot which.
How much does the topper score
@@arpanroy213 110+
Is this tougher than IIT JEE advanced exam...?????
@@AnkitKumar-mk2hw its 1000000% easier than iit jee and 1000% easier than jee mains
i remembered how my teacher chose me for a mathematic competition, 3rd grade mathematic competition. i saw a question saying “a + b = ?”. until this day, i was wondering what score i got there, they didn’t told it to me 😂
i guess a+b=b+a
@@rvvz1562 i guess since we aren't given the values or any integers we can just write rearrange it? I mean a-(-b) is also valid if that's the case
Distributive law.
Understanding the questions already made u a genius
I took the Putnam three times in college. I heard about it when I was in high school because I was heavily involved in the math team, so I knew I wanted to take it. Our math department even offered a special topics course to prepare for the Putnam, which I took. My first year I got a 0, my second year I got a 2, and my third year I got a 20.
Set B is not more difficult than set A, problem A_n is approximately the same difficulty as problem B_n. You are not allowed to use calculators.
The Putnam is by far, hands down, the most difficult test I've ever taken. I always looked forward to taking the Putnam every year because there were usually around 10 of us at our college who would take it, and for our lunch break the math professor who's in charge of the Putnam at our college would take us all to a sandwich shop, and we would eat and discuss set A's problems with each other.
The comment section is filled with
* jee advanced* and *आयआयटी*
yes🤣
Bhai India vale raj karte hain youtube par 👍❤️
Two sides of the spectrum
@@KUNAL007 sirf chutiyapa mein india number 1 hai reality me sirf toilet saaf karte hai
@@VC-kj9yx bhai sabhi company utha ke dekhlo CEO india ke hi hain
And yes India ka average IQ America se bahut jyada hai
Wow Its hard those exams hope you have a great week
Yes, these questions are very competition styled so having a background in that def. helps.
True !
I'm a mathematics major and I have no idea what's going on with this test....🙃
But this was a fun video to watch. Thanks.
@manjeet singh 43
@manjeet singh not really bro
WP
I taught math in community college up to calc 3, have an EE degree, now develop software for EE devices involving complex math...don't feel bad :lol: I could start the problems though.
@@alb12345672 I am going for Electrical Engineering, do you have any tips for me?
And here I am feeling proud that I can quickly solve simple addition and subtraction problems to turn of my math alarm 😖
@Kanav Bhardwaj Yup
Always wait till integration before you say you're good at Maths.
Moin
Fourier Transformations anyone?
@@moin6077 huh? Calculus is just a tool. Knowing calculus doesn't make you good at maths and not knowing calculus doesn't make you bad at it. You could pick any arbitrary maths concept as a boundary. Why integration? Integration as a concept is much less important than being able to write a proof, or model something accurately. When people learn integration they generally don't learn it rigorously anyway, so they're just learning some tool not how to think mathematically, which is more what a good mathematician is.
@@abijo5052 bro will you elobrate on thinking mathematically?
I really love your channel
These are kinds of videos that remind me that there are things more difficult than cooking up a breakfast in under 6 minutes.
I will approach this as if I am doing the actual exam. Disclaimer: I hold a graduate degree in abstract math. (Done without use of calculator)
Problem A1: multiply entire equations by ab, you get
a+b = 3ab/2018
Now a and b are positive integers, that is, greater than or equal to 1, therefore the left side is at least 2
Thus 3ab >= 4036
and ab > 1345
Also observe that 3 does not divide (evenly into) 2018
Hence 2018 must divide (evenly into) ab
Let's factor 2018:
2018 = 2*1009
Observe 30*30 = 900
31*31=961 and 32*32 = 1024
So to determine if 1009 factors, I need only check prime numbers less than (or equal to) 31
Obvious that 2, 3, and 5 aren't factors. Doing long division by hand, we see that 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, and 31 are not factors, thus 1009 is prime
Hence, 1009 must divide (evenly into) a or b (or both)
Note that the problem is symmetric with respect to a & b, so I can assume that 1009 divides a (or both a & b)
OK, I've made some progress, it's 12:22 AM on 7/27/19 on the left coast.
I'll give this more thought and return (if I don't fall asleep first)
I appreciate it but I'm not finna read all of it
"my boys' wicked smart"
@@GamingPotatoHD hehehe
When will you return?
Ya I got the first one just by starting with 1/2018 .. then realizing I need 2/2018 more .. and 2/2018 is 1/1009 .. I assume thats the answer then, (2018, 1009), (1009,2018) .. other than rest of the test looks like it would require me to do a refresher course(s)... maybe some more can be done by eye I dunno..
A girl in my linear algebra class scored well in this exam. Two men in suits came and presented her the award in front of the class and needless to say the grad student teaching our class was very very impressed. No idea what the prize was but, yep, that was the first time I'd heard of the Putnam exam.
Are you kitten me?
MIB
How much did she score?
seitch1 what was her score?
The top five scorers are awarded $2,500.
I tried to use photomath and it shutted down.
I had my coe exam yesterday for my selection for special training. I had the same question for my test (1 st question) I am in 10th grade and Indian...Thanks now I know the right procedure..
I'm surprised that the Chinese haven't said that their 3 year olds solve these exams on a daily basis.
Chinese maths exams are 10 times tougher than this exm.....
@A person with much less free time wtf
Best comment
Wit 10/10
Humor 10/10
Penmanship 10/10
Your score in the Hong Kong test is 30/30
Congratulations you have a medal for the best comment of June 🏅
@@ricchburglar I think you overtook it.
@@whitewalker608 I'm open to recommendations. Tell me which comment deserves this more and I will give it to them 😊
"Mr Bean might have been able to ace this Math Exam."
Mat Williams mr bean has an IQ in the 170s so I’m not surprised
Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean's actor) is a literal genius, he has an IQ of 175.
He's an Engineer and a genius
Ya
I took it at BYU in 1979 and remember putting something down on about half the problems and feeling like I had failed. The next semester, I was the student assistant to the Math department head. No one ever told me my score. No one ever told me why I was suddenly the assistant. Would it have hurt for them to have told me something?
i’m now in 9th grade and i can’t believe i’m taking those exams soon.
My cousin topped in GEORGIA TECH UNIVERSITY and now he is assistant professor there he told me in top 10 there was not even a single native white American , all were immigrants and mostly from Asia
@Jake Smith
What, you mean do what India and China are doing? Heaven forbid! It's beneath our dignity.
And United States corporations have been outsourcing for quite a while now; outsourcing students would just be an expected continuation of this.
Because in Asian cultures parents implicitly or explicitly pressure children to go into STEM fields. After spending a decade gaining an MSc and working across multiple experimental research groups, I admitted to myself that I didn't enjoy it all that much; as a child this all had been inculcated into me. My innate talent was in art, but there would have been so much antagonism from my parents. In Western cultures, people are free to pursue their true interests and innate talents. Giving up on STEM has given me a sense of liberation and an extraordinary inner tranquility.
Whats his score on the test?
@@tonyr2365 by Asians he didn't meant China, it's India, And Population is not main cause, main cause is Here people have mentality that engineering is the only way to earn good amount of money.
@@dancooper1 nah say native american slowly and again and again
I solved Q1 but it took me two days. 😂 2 days of thinking while driving, walking, eating, smoking, even talking, pooping, bathing. Two days of figuring it out and 2 minutes of solving it.
For other questions, I can’t even understand the question with confidence. They are “none of my business” types of questions.
At least you solved it 😁 happy for you hahahaha
NICEE
im not bragging but i kinda solved it in 5 mins. yes im Asian and im in 11th year.
I can't solve a normal maths😂😂😉😂😂😂😂😂😂
2 plus 2 is 4 minus 1 that's 3 *QUICK MAFS*
Paper looks quite a shot , but the principles u listed were quite familiar to me since 9th itself .
Can anyone explain WHY the solution for A1 multiplied the rearranged equation by 3 and then added (2018)^2 to both sides?? I would really like to know
Exam unboxing video
Humanity has now officially peaked
Kaboom LOL ❗️
Really 😜😂
For me physics and mathematics is like 'Beauty and the Beast'😂😂
Good one😂
Mathematics is way better.can u do physics without using mathematics
So which one is the beast
Haha
@@gandhilayaandhi865 As Einstein once said its relative
That last problem is particularly devious in picking a (mathematically) arbitrary upper bound. Typically if you are studying maths and you are given an upper bound you expect SOME relationship to work backwards from, that's how I started it anyway. Thinking about the problem practically - even more difficult to do under time pressure - would lead most experienced mathematicians to at least assume the actual cardinality is much lower than the bound given - though even then the double induction is not an intuitive proof and I can't imagine I would have even gotten that far to begin with. All that to say it adds to the theory that being good AT competitions will likely help here as much as being good at maths.
Yes, the Putnam is rather unique in that regard, but in my experience being good at math and being good at math competitions aren't necessarily the same thing. The skills you need for competition are abstract, out of the box thinking, which is more in line with the physicists. The skills you need for math is the ability to foresee the future pretty much, which doesn't help all that much on competitions. Of course both skills are important so being good at either one helps somewhat but they have a different weight depending on what you're doing. The Putnam does encourage you to be pretty good and knowledgeable in theory because of how rigorous you have to be. You have to have mastery over these areas at the level of the Putnam, not just competition skills. Many Putnam Fellows do go on to win Nobels in Physics or Abel prizes or Fields.
U have so much of positive vibes
I remember taking this exam. Very, very hard but we all knew it was for fun. My professors brought pizza and drinks for the break between sessions and we even played some video games. I actually received some points which was nice, but what was really rewarding was being encouraged and supported to work on challenging mathematics.
Sounds so relaxed and fun! :D
Lies again? Take Meds
@@NazriB ??????????????????
@@NazriBu lie to yourself everyday looking in the mirror and still deciding to eat at the rate you do live a healthier lifestyle before criticizing anyone 😢
So you can get into the 50th percentile by not even taking the test?
Surprisingly enough, I learned all the information needed to complete this test in my first year linear algebra course (I attend McMaster University in Ontario, Canada). The questions aren't complex, they just take an inordinate amount of time to prove.
Go become a Putnam fellow then
How do you find the numbers that correspond to the mod 3 thing in the first question? The solution has squared numbers so how do you mathematically arrive at them, without writing code?
My eyes just glazed over.... It'd be easier to learn fluent French!
Definitely
Especially if you are French.
It would be easier to learn both Chinese and Arabic
I feel like I could learn chinese and Japanese before I could learn to solve one of these questions. Not a math person.
2 min of *Silence* for the Students who actually attempted this test .....also F's in the chat
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math is really difficult when it gives you sentences question and you have to interpret it in equations and derive it into something else
American: this is our hardest maths exam
Chinese nursery kid: give me my homework back
I was just admitted to the hospital for anxiety after looking at the problems.
Well watch jee advance questions
Same send some help
@@vatsal512 Those are absolute snorefests compared to the Putnam. What's next? The JEE is harder than Princeton's qualifying exams for physics?
@@bilalhussein9730 bro they solve all these hard questions in high schools
@@vatsal512 Yes and it's commendable that they are able to but it's not the hardest exam on Earth like many Indians say. Is it the hardest high school level exam? Sure if you ignore the IMO and IOI.
Lol, I probably wouldn’t even know where to write my name 🤦🏽♀️
Nailed it... LOL
Americans:
This exam is ez I got 43 points
also americans:
india is the capital city of asia
Lol one time some one said to me “my friend is from india, their from Pakistan”
@@someonesomeone3126 they’re*
@@monkescary1874 It was over text message, I remember they texted “their” cause I have it as my background lol.
@@someonesomeone3126 oh my bad 😥
@@monkescary1874 no it’s all good :)
summary: abstract algebra proofs(groups, kaly tables, modular arithmetic, injective bijective surjective proofs, is it a function or not type problems, abelian groups) , discrete math proofs, partial derivative proofs, geometric series, hyper geometric series, taylor series, maclaurin series, complex anaylisis methods, numerical analysis methos, real anaylis methods.
I don't care what the math nerds used to say when I was in school; math is bloody hard.
What a silly exam - only Math teachers could pass that.
The woman showing us the test is a masters degree math major & she's having trouble.
it's even harder from them, some of them knows how to sole the problem but only a percentile of them knows how to correctly write the proofs
It's not that hard...I am able to solve it 70% exam
@@pramod_iitbhu Congratulations, You're definitely an exceptional talent in math. What University do/did you attend?
@@gold9994 He Is Probably Kidding
@@Prototype987 Really? JEE is compared to putnam is like 1 compared to 100 scale. Even JEE Advanced Math is easier than GAOKAO
Great vid. How are you able to make exams so interesting?
Yaay I'm so happpy i found your channel
I took this exam every year as an undergraduate, and the best score I ever got was 20 - which was actually the top score in my state that year. Needless to say, the problems were tough!
Is this really true? :O
I have no idea wtf is going on but I'm enjoying it
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Find all positive integers n
I think I would have had a chance at spelling my name right on that. The rest would just be covered in tears
These problems are search engines for mathematically gifted children. They test for ingenuity and quick mathematically associationing [sic!]. You need a very nimble subconscious intuition. Something you can learn by doing a lot of math qualitatively, without necessarily algebraically rigorously proving your every statement.
The test is for undergrads
You mean it’s a test of mathematical trickery and obscurity.
I didn't understand a word of what you just said.
i'd say its about 40% your "ability" and 40% prep, and 20% blind luck your brain "gets" a certain area of mathematics that the test covers in a question. You can succeed (get a placement score) as a non math major ,(i'm accounting) i went to my mathletics group for the free pizza while waiting for my dnd session (with a friend who is in mathletics and a math major). i scored a 1 on B3 for basically (really paraphrasing not my actual answer) saying "the first two conditions are met given all numbers are powers of 2". The concepts, the basic prep, and way to approach these questions can be taught to some extent, but there is certainly an area of "talent" but this talent could not be easily distinguished from hard work without certeris paribus, and to actually have numbers worth looking at (not 0's and 1's , lets say a mean of 10 for a useful statistical analysis) and even then i give a 20% error rate to this 'model' because my friend who answered 2 questions in full and the whole department (several PHD's and hand full of masters) believed he should have gotten a full 20, instead got the same score as me a lousy 1, (which i bug him to no end about).
tl;dr you're only about 40% right on that Ben
I lost IQ points just reading this lol. Looks like I need to stop being cocky for passing algebra 2 lol.
Albert einstien: Challenge accepted
@Shubham Patel bruh
@Shubham Patel
Einstein was exceptional in maths & physics. He took help of his friends to form equations for his theory of relativity as it requires some extreme complex mathematical calculations that very few people had known at that time.
@@pokemonitishere202 ok ok. i have got it
Go to heaven and give him the test
@@housegamer1081 how do you know he is in heaven?
I tried solving the first question
using some number theory which I am learning right now
I found that a or b divide 2018(not sure if it 2018|ab could be correct should check)
since 2018 only has 4 factors 2,1009,2018
I just plugged them and got two answers, (1009,2018),(2018,1009) by symmetry
I would say it's a pretty good solution for someone just starting to learn about competitive math
what do you think?
do I get a point for effort?
Dear professor may l ask you a question is optimization calculus an exception or a part of the infinitésimal calculus? Thanks lot
I was fortunate enough to take this exam, the exact form you worked through! It was my first Putnam and fortunately, I scored a few points above zero. Looking forward to trying again next year, it’s certainly a challenge for everyone (including hardcore mathematics majors)
I just love your analysis of exams
Lol I took this test in 2018. Surprising, ended up getting B3 correct, it was a pretty interesting question
Brains and looks. Just marvelous!