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 [...]
The Cambridge professor thanked Dikran Tahta, who taught him at St Albans School in the 1950s, as he celebrated the role teachers can play in the lives of their pupils. “At St Albans [...]
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 [...]
