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MELBOURNE, FRIDAY 14 AUGUST 2015: The Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute publishes a guide — Maths Ad(d)s — to help career advisors, teachers, students and their parents understand [...]

MELBOURNE, THURSDAY 6 AUGUST 2015: Australia’s future as a high technology, research-driven economy will depend on reversing 20-year trends in the mathematical sciences, according to a new report [...]

MELBOURNE, MONDAY 3 AUGUST, 2015: Eight universities in Victoria and NSW have entered into a partnership with AMSI Intern to boost industry-academic collaborations and improve the work-readiness [...]

BRISBANE, FRIDAY 26 JUNE, 2015: When someone says they are a mathematician or describes their research, it is natural to wonder why it is useful. Why do we need it? How will it affect me? What [...]

Article by Tim Dodd, the Australian Financial Review BHP Billiton will spend $22 million on lifting the maths performance of girls in schools and helping them into male-dominated science, [...]

MELBOURNE, THURSDAY 26 MARCH, 2015: The Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI) is delighted with the recent recognition given to the prominence of the role mathematics and science have [...]

Chief Scientist, Professor Ian Chubb, released — at an address to the National Press Club —a report commissioned by the Australian Academy of Science and his office. The report reflects the [...]

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 [...]

Dr Norman Do is a self-proclaimed mathematics geek, and lecturer at Monash University. He often finds himself asking “what shape is that, how can I define it and what can it teach me about the [...]