By An Ran Chen, Australian National University In 1852, the South African mathematician and botanist Francis Guthrie asked a seemingly simple question, “Is it possible to colour any map with at [...]
By Maxwell Cairns, La Trobe University A simple Interval estimator for the ratios of two medians was given by Bonett and Price in a 2002 paper in the Journal of Statistical Computation and [...]
By Peter Wreford, RMIT University My AMSI vacation research project involved applying graph theory to the genetics of drought resistant chickpeas. Chickpeas are a highly nutritious food, [...]
By Anna Vaughan, Australian National University It has long been realised that mathematics provides a beautiful and powerful framework to describe the universe in which we live. From [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
