Mathematics Professor Yufei Zhao, far right, stands with winners of the 78th annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. From left are Junyao Peng, Yunkun Zhou, Sammy Luo, Allen Liu, Jiyang Gao, Ashwin Sah, and Omer Cerrahoglu.
The results of the 78th annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition:
Our 1st Place Team:
Allen Liu, Sammy Luo, and Yunkun Zhou.
Our Putnam Fellows:
Omer Cerrahoglu, Jiyang Gao, Junyao Peng, Ashwin Sah, and Yunkun Zhou.
MIT students were among 4,638 test-takers from 575 institutions last December, and once again produced the highest number of top individual scorers. In addition to having the 1st place team and 5 out of the 6 highest ranking individuals named Putnam Fellows, MIT had 5 of the next 9 top scorers, and 7 of the next 10. In addition, 21 out of 74 students who received honorable mention were from MIT. In total, 38 out of 100 top scorers are MIT students.
This is our fourth time in the past five years that the MIT team ranked first.
Congratulations!