By Will Stavely, Monash University You may have noticed that if you twist the end of an old-fashioned phone cord, it will start to bunch up into a clump somewhere in the middle of the cord. A [...]
Article by Loretta Florance, ABC Online. Trams that never have to stop for traffic lights could be the norm in Melbourne in the future, under plans being developed to deal with population growth [...]
MELBOURNE, TUESDAY 10 FEBRUARY 2015: Would you call a food blogger an expert? In the eyes of some mathematical algorithms that is exactly what they are. Online restaurant reviews are a way of [...]
By Alex Simmons, Queensland University of Technology Mathematical models are a popular field of research owing to their ability to describe physical problems, interactions or processes within the [...]
Christopher Ryba, The University of Sydney Over the course of the summer, I undertook an AMSI Vacation Research Scholarship. Under the supervision of Prof. G. I. Lehrer, I studied the [...]
By Stuart Roberts, RMIT Growing up I never had a full understanding of just how important mathematics was in everyday life. Mathematics was always my favourite subject in school, but despite how [...]
By Wai Pun, The University of Adelaide As implied by the topic, statistical decision theory is about making decisions under uncertainty. In Decision Theory, we wish to choose the action that [...]
On November 20, in awarding the 2014 National Medal of Science to ten distinguished scientists and engineers, President Barack Obama recognized the achievements of three mathematical scientists. [...]
By Andrew Palermo, Griffith University Sending electricity through your brain sounds harmful and dangerous but in some cases it can change the way your brain works in a positive way. A method, [...]
