| First Prize | $1600 |
| Second Prize | $1000 |
| Third Prize | $600 |
| Fourth Prize | $200 |
The competition is open to all Freshman and Sophomore degree students at UMass Amherst. Continuing Education Students and close relatives of faculty members of the Department of Mathematics & Statistics are not eligible.
Sign up in LGRT 1623D by 3:00 pm on April 2, 2009.
The background for the exam is basic algebra, elementary number theory, and calculus; no upper-division coursework is necessary. Here are some sample problems taken from previous competitions that show the kinds of problems and the degree of difficulty one should expect.
To participate in the competition, you must sign up before noon in LGRT 1623D the day of the competition.
| James Francis with Deutsche Bank | |
| Roy Perdue with Solutions by Computer |
| 2004 | Elena Zaurova (First Place), Kevin Grimaldi (Second Place), Edward Slavich (Third Place), Thomas Folz-Donahue, Vitaliy Lvin and Michael Sindelar (Honorable Mention) | |
| 2005 | Kevin Grimaldi (First Place), Shaohan Hu (Second Place), Daniel Arpino (Third Place), Jesse Winn (Honorable Mention) | |
| 2006 | Shaohan Hu (First Place), Michael Krainin (Second Place), Hilary Scheintaub (Third Place), Alexander McAvoy (Honorable Mention) | |
| 2008 | Andrew Hall (First Place), Kai Xiao (Second Place), Kim Kyungyoon (Third Place), Yi Ding (Honorable Mention) | |
| 2009 | Nathan Harmon (First Place), Keaton Burns (Second Place), Boxuan Cui (Third Place), Anton Medvedev (Fourth Place), Jinlong Tan (Honorable Mention) |
Examination committee: Haskell Cohen, Paul Gunnells, Eleanor Killam
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