The first Stanford Math Tournament was held on Saturday, February 27, 1999 in conjunction with the Harvard-MIT Math Tournament. The format of the contest is based on the Rice Math Tournament, which has been running since 1981.
The 2009 Stanford Math Tournament was held on Saturday, February 28th. Thanks to all who participated!
Update: You can now download the full SMT results. Problems and solutions are also available below.
Prof. Brian Conrad spoke at SMT on "The Mathematics of the Rubik's Cube".
If you're a Stanford student or community member interested in helping out with SMT, email Peter Smillie (psmillie at stanford dot edu) and/or join the SUMO mailing list (see the homepage).
SUMO values highly your feedback and constructive criticism. We hope to use your suggestions to make next year's tournament better and run more smoothly. Please feel free to email Peter Smillie to voice your thoughts via the web.
The solutions to the tests are mostly correct, but by no means perfect. If a contest participant finds an undiscovered error or a significantly more elegant solution, we would be happy to make the appropriate changes and publish the results, with acknowledgement, on this website. Please email submissions to Peter Smillie.
If you are interested in helping out with the contest or organizing your own site, please see the organizer information page for more details.
SUMO would like to give a huge thank you to the ASSU for providing funding for the tournament! We'd also like to thank all the students who help out by writing questions, looking over tests, proctoring, and grading!
