Thoughts on my Mind

Well it has been a while since I have metioned my math adventures.  A few days ago I took the Putnam exam. Personally I found the morning seesion to be kind of “easy” ( for the Putnam that is). I was able to answer 2 questions completely and half of a third. The afternoon session was more of what I expected. I knew the answer to 2 of the questions but couldn’t think of a proof for one of them, and then the other I was making a computational mistake (how depressing).

I’m not going to post the problems since it shouldn’e be too difficult to find them with a simple Google search or looking on the AoPS fourms.

After talking to my school mates I felt that I could have answered 4 of the morning session questions, if I didn’t have a thing against using the integral test. My favorite problem on the whole test was as follows: What is the maximum number of rational points that can be on a circle with a center who’s is irrational.

Oh well I am actually pretty happy with my 20, an improvement from last year’s 10, who knows maybe I’ll get a 21 but that’s unlikely.