How (Not) to Solve a Putnam Problem
The starting point for this talk is a simply-stated problem from the 1971 Putnam Mathematics Competition with which the students taking the exam had remarkably little success. We then discuss how Alex Wilkie applies (simply-stated) tools from mathematical logic to solve the problem, and close with a tantalizing open problem.
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