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 [...]
By Alexander Baker, The University of Queensland It all began early in my life. Mathematics provided fun little logical puzzles to solve and was far more intriguing than other subjects at school. [...]
Throughout the natural world – in corals, cactuses, sea-slugs and lettuce leaves – we see swooping, curving and crenelated forms. All these are biological manifestations of hyperbolic geometry an [...]
Fields Medallist and member of AMSI’s Scientific Advisory Committee, Professor Terry Tao takes time out of his busy schedule at UCLA to give us an insight into what’s exciting him in mathematics, [...]
What happens when someone claims to have proved a famous conjecture? Well, it depends. When a paper is submitted, the journal editor will pass it off to a respected expert for examination. That [...]
7 December 2015: Mathematics is revolutionising cancer research and saving lives, leading international forensic bioinformatician from the United States, Professor Keith Baggerly, will [...]
Senator Simon Birmingham, Minister for Education and Training, spoke of Australian government support for bioinformatics in his opening message to the participants of AMSI BioInfoSummer 2015. [...]
