<p>Scoring high enough on the Putnam to have individual recognition nationally puts one in good company </p>
<p>but no serious mathematician, even a mathematician who has won the Putnam competition, asserts that the set {high individual scorers on the Putnam exam} has a one-to-one correspondence with the set {people who can properly be called a "math wiz"}. To me, her attendance in Harvard's Math 55 class and successful completion of higher-level classes, while still having time to be active in sports, speaks for itself. </p>
<p>Congratuations to this Harvard alumna. I hope she enjoys the math and the rugby at Cambridge University--both are world-class there.</p>