Problem Solving Seminar at Harvey Mudd College

The Problem Solving Seminar, which meets each Tuesday evening in the spring from 6-8 PM, is similar in nature to the Putnam Seminar but it focuses on posing and solving deeper problems. In addition, students become familiar with computational aids (MAPLE), and the LaTeX typesetting environment.
The problems considered are selected from recent journals of the Mathematical Association of America (American Mathematical Monthly, Mathematics Magazine, and College Mathematics Journal). Students are encouraged to work cooperatively and submit solutions for publication.

See some problems and solutions from the 1999-2000 Seminar.

Here is some information for students currently attending the seminar.

Mathematical Resources:

Mudd Math Fun Facts - An archive of fun math tidbits.
The Integrator - An online symbolic integration program.
The Inverse Symbolic Calculator - A program that attempts to find a symbolic expression for a given number.
Sloane's On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences - An encyclopedia of many interesting sequences of integers.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics - A very extensive encyclopedia of mathematics. Anything that you might want to know about math can be found here.

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