What is the Putnam Competition?

The Putnam Exam is a nationwide test given yearly to undergraduates (all majors are welcome) in the United States and Canada. It is voluntary, and problems are presented with clever and ingenious solutions. Some students have found general solutions, which have led to publications.

Shift cipher *

Affine cipher *

Vigenère cipher *

Playfair cipher *

Rail fence cipher *

Hill cipher

Students and faculty in the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences have access to excellent computing facilities, including mainframes and personal computers running a broad selection of software.

The Daniel E. Noble Science Library, a member of the Center for Research Libraries, has a very good holding of mathematical texts and journals, its operations are fully computerized to aid in literature searches.

Introduction

There are ways to secure your homepage (or a part of it!) by using the built-in password protection mechanisms. In the school, we use the APACHE Web Server. The following describes ways to secure your homepage on the Math server. The same can be followed for the Mathpost server or any other server where APACHE is installed and configured.

Using User Authentication

There are two ways of restricting access to documents:

The following steps will guide you how to use the new math page header.

Presentation Template using Latex Beamer

The following LaTeX file is a Sample Presentation Template that could be used by students to create their own presentations.

This Latex file should be compiled with pdflatex, for this reason, it is recommended that you convert the figures in your presentation to pdf. Postscript files (.ps and .eps) will not compile properly when pdflatex is used. You may use commands like "convert" or "eps2pdf" (in linux) to convert your figures.

The Beamer Class

The beamer class is a LaTeX class that allows you to create a beamer presentation. It can also be used to create slides. It behaves similarly to other packages like Prosper, but has the advantage that it works together directly with pdflatex, but also with dvips.

The Latex Beamer Class Homepage provides with the steps to create a beamer presentation and some examples

Installation on Macintosh

pdftk-The pdf toolkit

Creating and reading PDF files in Linux is easy, but manipulating existing PDF files is a little trickier.The PDF Toolkit (pdftk) claims to be that all-in-one solution.