By Shane Henry, The University of Melbourne Arson is a major issue in Australian summers, particularly in Victoria, where there have been approximately 5,000 maliciously lit fires per year since [...]
By Sheng Xu, The University of Sydney A major problem in the Australian education system, and one which has received significant media coverage lately, is the decline in mathematical ability of [...]
By Lachlan Tyrrell, Queensland University of Technology I love mathematics. Maths is somehow miraculous and beautiful despite being perfectly logical. I understand that not everyone feels this [...]
By Timothy Tillman, The University of Newcastle If you buy the exponential growth of tech metrics (such as cost per memory, energy per floating point operations, etc.) staying that way for the [...]
By Elisa Tancredi, La Trobe University For as long as I can remember, I’ve been ‘teaching’ maths. I have always loved maths and express it in a fun and positive way. My earliest memory is being [...]
By Aiden Suter, The University of Queensland As we grow, we become familiar with many types of numbers ranging from fractions to irrational numbers such as π. The first type of numbers we [...]
By Alexander Stokes, The University of Sydney One of the most thrilling things about doing mathematics at any level is seeing how a problem transforms when you think about it in different ways. [...]
By Amy Stringfellow, Queensland University of Technology When I left school, I rather liked maths. It had beautiful logic, symmetry and best of all, there was one logical solution for any problem [...]
By Dimitrio Sidi, University of Western Australia There is a popular video game series called Just Cause where players control a character whose objective is to liberate towns from the rule of an [...]
By Haris Sahovic, Monash University In human history, mathematics has never been as important as it is today. It has a direct impact on the majority of our everyday lives, as citizens and [...]
