Mathematics Problems on the Web

Table of Contents

• Problem Columns from Mathematics Journals
  • The Fibonacci Quarterly
  • Mathematics and Informatics Quarterly (coming soon)
  • Missouri Journal of Mathematical Sciences
• Problem Columns on the World Wide Web
  
• Mathematics Problems on the World Wide Web
  
• Newsgroups
  • alt.algebra.help
  • alt.math.iams
  • geometry.puzzles
  • rec.puzzles
  • sci.math
  • maus.mathe
• Problem Columns via Electronic Mail
• Journals with Problem columns on the Web
• On-line Book Reviews of Problem Books
• On-line Bookstores that stock Problem Books
• Miscellaneous information

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Problem Columns from Mathematics Journals

We list below only a few of the journals that are currently running problem columns. You are welcome to try your hand at solving these problems. Solutions should be sent to the appropriate problem column editor (not to MathPro Press).

• The Fibonacci Quarterly
  • Instructions for Contributors
  • About the Journal
  • Problem Column Archive
  • Current Problems
    • Volume 32 Issue #4 - August 1994 (deadline: May 1, 1995)
      Problems 766-771
      1. web page
      2. dvi
    • Volume 32 Issue #5 - November 1994 (deadline: August 1, 1995)
      Problems 772-777
      1. web page
      2. dvi
    • Volume 33 Issue #1 - February 1995 (deadline: November 1, 1995)
      Problems 778-783
      1. web page
      2. dvi
    • Volume 33 Issue #2 - May 1995 (deadline: February 1, 1996)
      Problems 784-789
      1. web page
      2. dvi

Problem Columns on the World Wide Web

• Peter Wang's problem of the month
  This is an olympiad-level problem column published monthly by Peter T. Wang.
• MathMess Problem of Week
  This is conducted by Loren Larson at St. Olaf College.
• MAA gopher queries
• Richard Neal's Problem Solving Competition
  information only.
• MathSoft publishes MathCad Puzzler each month which consists of problems selected from Allan Gottlieb's problem column in Technology Review.

Mathematics Problems on the World Wide Web

• The All-Soviet-Union mathematics competitions 1961-1987
  These have been provided by Vladimir A. Pertsel who translated them into English. Also available by gopher.
• The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carleton University has started a collection of mathematics puzzles.
• William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition
  • Peter T. Wang has recent Putnam problems posted at http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~peterw/putnam.html.
  • Michael Larson has some of the recent Putnam competitions on-line (in PostScript). See his home page for details. He also lists some recent high scores.
  • A list of references to where in the American Mathematical Monthly you can find Putnam Problems and solutions is maintained by the MAA.
• University of California at Berkeley Preliminary Ph. D. Examinations
  Brought to you by Paulo Ney de Souza (desouza@math.berkeley.edu) and Jorge-Nuno Silva (jnsilva@math.berkeley.edu) of the UC Berkeley Mathematics Department. Includes problems from 1977 to present.
• Kalva's collection of Maths Problems
• IMO Compendium

Newsgroups

• alt.algebra.help
• geometry.puzzles
• rec.puzzles
  The archive to rec.puzzles is located at. ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/puzzles/archive. The archive has the following subdivisions:
  Instructions | analysis puzzles | arithmetic puzzles | combinatorics puzzles | competition puzzles | cryptology puzzles | decision puzzles | geometry puzzles | group puzzles | induction puzzles | language puzzles | logic puzzles | physics puzzles | pickover puzzles | probability puzzles | real-life puzzles | references | series puzzles | trivia puzzles
  There is a group of rec.puzzles regulars, who are familiar with the rec.puzzles archive, and who will respond to queries. To send them a question, send email to puzzle-oracle@questrel.com.
• sci.math
  Sections of the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions file) that are of interest to problemists:
  • Unsolved Problems
    • Does there exist a number that is perfect and odd?
    • Collatz Problem
  • Famous Problems in Mathematics
    • The Four Colour Theorem
    • The Trisection of an Angle
  • Which are the 23 Hilbert Problems?
• alt.math.iams
  This is the newsgroup of the Internet Amateur Mathematics Society, moderated by Benjie Chen. Extensive archives are available.
• maus.mathe
  German language version of sci.math.

Problem Columns via Electronic Mail

• Stan Wagon's Problem of the Week

  Each week during the fall and spring semesters, Stan Wagon posts a Problem of the Week for students at Macalester College. This tradition was started in 1968 by Professor Joe Konhauser (recently deceased); Joe posted problems for 25 years and Stan took over in 1993. These problems are meant to be accessible to first-year college students, so very little background is needed to understand or solve the problems.

  Stan sends out the problems by e-mail as well (the mailing list currently has about 200 names), and if you would like to be placed on the list, send a message to that effect to Meridy Amsden at amsden@macalstr.edu. The subject of the email message should be "wagon's problem list".

  The best of the over 700 problems used so far will appear in a book co-authored by J. Konhauser, D. Velleman, and S. Wagon, titled "Which Way Did the Bicycle Go?". It will be published by the Mathematical Association of America and should be available by the end of 1995.

• The Internet Amateur Mathematics Society

  Benjie Chen and the Internet Amateur Mathematics Society publish math problems from time to time on their newsgroup and world wide web pages. You can also receive this information via electronic mail. Their mail list server is listserv@hh.sbay.org.

Journals with problem columns

• Tangents Tangents Online is the electronic version of the Harvard-Radcliffe Mathematics Bulletin. It contains a problem column called Math Challenge Problem and Puzzles, edited by Takara Stanley.
• Technology Review
  The journal, Technology Review, has a problem column run by Allan Gottlieb. Although this journal is now being published on the web, the web version does not yet include the problem column, which only appears in the alumni edition. Selected problems are reprinted at MathSoft's Web site.
• Mathematical Mayhem has several problem columns. It has its own web page, but the problems are not yet on-line.

On-line Bookstores that stock Problem Books

• Powell's Technical Bookstore
  Check out listings under General/recreational

Miscellaneous information

• The University of Tennessee at Knoxville maintains The Mathematics Archives which contains information about various mathematics contests.
• The MAA gopher has information about mathematics competitions.
• A list of math competitons is maintained by The_Center_for_Talent_Development.
• Xah Lee and Michel Gallant are the sysops for the Math Puzzles forum on compuserve (section 20 of the Science and Math Forum). This is a bulletin board that discusses a wide variety of math puzzles. They occasionally hold Recreational Math Puzzle Conferences.
• Kiran S. Kedlaya maintains anarchive containing problems and solutions from various competitions, such as the USAMO, the IMO, and the Putnam Competitions.
• Tom Verhoeff maintains information about the International Olympiad in Informatics. He also has some information about the International Mathematical Olympiad.

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