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Chapman Senior, Nathan Lawless, achieves high score at the annual Putnam Mathematics Competition.<\/h3>\n

The William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition<\/a> is an annual contest that tests some of the brightest mathematics students from colleges across the nation.\u00a0 The competition takes place each year on the first Saturday in December, where over 2000 college students spend 6 hours trying to solve 12 problems.<\/p>\n

At the competition, senior Mathematics and Biochemistry major Nathan Lawless<\/strong> achieved a score of 20 points.\u00a0 This is the highest score ever attained by a Chapman student and also doubles the previous highest score.\u00a0 Throughout the years, Chapman has had only two non-zero scores of 1 and 10 points.\u00a0 More than 50% of the approximately 4500 participants this year had a score of 0.\u00a0 Nathan was just a few points short of the top 10% finish.\u00a0 Let’s congratulate Nathan on this great achievement!\u00a0 Way to go Nathan!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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