By Andy Chu, University of Technology Sydney Mathematics has been a passion of mine ever since I was a kid. It is relevant to every aspect of life. So it was sad to see fellow students who would [...]
How confident are you in your choice? Such a simple but important question for people to answer. Yet, capturing how people answer this question has proven challenging for mathematical models of [...]
By An Ran Chen, Australian National University In 1852, the South African mathematician and botanist Francis Guthrie asked a seemingly simple question, “Is it possible to colour any map with at [...]
By Maxwell Cairns, La Trobe University A simple Interval estimator for the ratios of two medians was given by Bonett and Price in a 2002 paper in the Journal of Statistical Computation and [...]
By Peter Wreford, RMIT University My AMSI vacation research project involved applying graph theory to the genetics of drought resistant chickpeas. Chickpeas are a highly nutritious food, [...]
By Anna Vaughan, Australian National University It has long been realised that mathematics provides a beautiful and powerful framework to describe the universe in which we live. From [...]
By Sarah Gazelle, RMIT University As a child I never had an interest to learn mathematics and I never particularly enjoyed it. I was shocked on my first day of Year 6 when my teacher told me and [...]
By Kevin Duxbury, Monash University I was fortunate enough to embark on a fascinating journey into bio-mathematics taking the form of an AMSI research project. It was wonderful to gain insight [...]
By James Bubear, Queensland University of Technology A Sudoku is a puzzle that most of us will be familiar with having become a staple of most newspapers over the last decade. What many of you [...]
By Debra Briggs, Federation University Australia My interest in numbers began as a pre-schooler. When I was 3 years old I remember my mother pulling a mandarin in half and talking about how two [...]
