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 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 [...]
AMSI and AustMS provide young Australian researchers an opportunity to attend the international Heidelberg Laureate Forum, an annual meeting bringing together winners of the most scientific [...]
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 [...]
The 56th International Mathematical Olympiad was held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, from 4 to 16 July 2015 — 104 countries participated. Australia achieved its highest-ever placing this year. [...]
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, [...]
By Nicole Cocks, University of Wollongong Wheat is a cereal grain that is processed and used as a base ingredient for many of our everyday foods such as breakfast cereals, bread, cookies and [...]
By Joshua Ciappara, The University of Sydney The six weeks of mathematical research I undertook over this last summer permitted me numerous important personal insights – on the nature of abstract [...]
