Winners of the U of I Undergraduate Mathematics Contest
Before 1995, there were two contests, an "Orange Contest"
for students in calculus, and a "Blue Contest" for students who have
completed the calculus sequence. Usually, one prize was awarded for
each of these contests. Beginning with 1995, there has been only a single
contest, and between two and five prizes were awarded each year.
Since 1998, the top award has been a cash prize of up to $250, with runners-up
receiving book prizes.
- 2008
- First Prize: Alex Zhai
- Second Prize: Wanrong Zhang
- Third Prize: Michael Nasti, Tiance Wang (tie)
- 2007
- First Prize: Ben Kaduk
- Second Prize: Walter Faig
- 2006
- First Prize: Sander Parawira
- Second Prize: David Grayson, Ian Shipman (tie)
- 2005
- First Prize: David Grayson, David Klempner, Jay Rauchenstein, Zane
Shi (tie)
- 2004
- First Prize: Vishal Doshi, Wing Ko (tie)
- 2003
- First Prize: Dan Pozdol
- Second Prize: Maria Boca
- Third Prize: Maro Aghazarian
- 2002
- First Prize: Michael Baym
- Second Prize: Ken Scheiwe
- Third Prize: Geoffrey Levine
- Fourth Prize and Rookie Award: Simina Boca
- 2001
- First Prize: Thomas Aref, Michael Baym, Ken Scheiwe (tie)
- 2000
- First Prize: David Dueber and Ken Scheiwe (tie)
- Third Prize: Kaushik Roy
- 1999
- First Prize: Brad Friedman
- Second Prize: Jim Schneider
- Third Prize: Eiji Aoki
- Fourth Prize: Sham Bhat
- 1998
- 1st: Sham Bhat, Jeff Callahan, Arthur Edelstein,
Michael Roman, Sandip Roy (tie)
- 1997
- 1st: Ivan Avromavich
- 2nd: Eiji Aoki
- 1996
- 1st: Patrick Keenan
- 2nd: Ivan Avramovich
- 3rd: Paul Colucci
- 1995
- 1st: Tsz Ho Chan
- 2nd: Ivan Avramovich
- 3rd: Kwong Lin
- 4th: Paul Colucci
- 1994
- 1st: Patrick Keenan
- 2nd: Michael Lee
- 3rd: Ionel Vasilescu
- 1993
- Orange: Jason Hsu
- Blue: D. Srikrishna
- 1992
- Orange: Michael Rohr
- Blue: Kevin Foster
- 1991
- Orange: Anthony Ye
- Blue: David Beckman
- 1990
- Orange: Eric Persson
- Blue: David Beckman
- 1989
- Orange: Andrew Cary
- Blue: David Beckman
- 1988
- Orange:
- Blue: David Secrest / David Beckman
- 1987
- Orange: Gordon Ye
- Blue: Mark Fritz
- 1986
- 1985
- 1984
- 1983
- 1982
- Orange: John Wiegand
- Blue: Chris Habisohn
- 1981
- Orange: Ping Lau
- Blue:Chris Eddy / J. Walsh
- 1980
- Orange: Jeffrey Fisher
- Blue: Jerome Walsh
- 1979
- Orange: Randall Wright
- Blue: Richard LaSota
- 1978
- Orange: Craig Smith
- Blue: Richard LaSota
- 1977
- Orange: Pat Walker
- Blue: Richard Skora
- 1976
- 1975
- Orange: Tyche Sleator
- Blue: Bruce Hajek
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