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 [...]
By Timothy O’Sullivan, The University of Melbourne Most of us are familiar with the concept of Atoms, the idea that everything around us and inside us is made up of these very tiny building [...]
By Angus Lewis, The University of Adelaide It’s summer in Australia and Christmas is coming. Friends and family travel from across the country to be together. It’s very exciting for [...]
By Todd Neve, The University of Melbourne The Ising Model is a mathematical model of ferromagnetism in statistical mechanics. It was first studied by Ernst Ising in the 1920s to analyse critical [...]
By Daniel Kon, The University of Adelaide My AMSI VRS project fell somewhere in the intersection of mathematics and genetics. The study of genetics in the age of computers involves dealing with [...]