By John McCarthy, The University of Adelaide In late 1915, Albert Einstein published his first paper on the subject of General Relativity. In it, he described a picture of our universe as a [...]
By Padraic Gidney, The University of Sydney For my summer project, I investigated the behaviour of a particular kind of solution – what’s called a periodic wave train solution – [...]
By Russell Edson, The University of Adelaide When cartilage is damaged – by injury, genetic disorders, or diseases like Osteoarthritis – the results can be physically debilitating. Currently the [...]
By Penelope Drastik, University of Wollongong What is the square root of -1? Most people would say that it doesn’t exist. Since the product of two positive numbers is positive, and the product of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
