Australia's vaccination trends: by the numbers
We’ve looked at the trends that have emerged in the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.
As the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Australia continues to dominate headlines, and experts tout vaccinations as the ke...
Mathematics
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Conversation
Victoria’s 5-day lockdown may not quash Delta
Here’s what our modelling predicts.
By Lei Zhang, Christopher Fairley, Guihua Zhuang, and Zhuoru Zou.Victoria has entered a five-day lockdown to con...
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Last chance to enter Cosmos 2021 Pi-ku competition
Entries close near the end of June: don’t miss out!
March 14 is International Day of Mathematics – UNESCO declared it so at its 40th General Conference in 2019 – and als...
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Snapshot
Could Ferris Bueller’s day off have really happened?
Figuring out if Ferris and company could pack that much fun into just one day is a good time for ...
By Simon Pampena.As much as I wanted to believe that a high school student could pack that much fun into just one...
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Mathematical modelling: A dark art comes to light
When there’s no time to waste and the stakes are high, a computer model can be just what you need...
You could say that mathematical modelling’s moment had arrived. The coronavirus had reached Australia, state health o...
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5 quirky study areas of maths
Our favourite ‘ologies’ for World Maths day.
Mathematics is massive area of study – from statistics, to probability, to chaos. It’s a wide world, which means ther...
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Y2Q: quantum computing and the end of internet security
Will quantum computing pick the digital lock of all our most precious secrets?
What if you woke up one morning to find all locks had disappeared? Not just the one on your front door, or the lock o...
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History
Nils Aall Barricelli
The Italian-Norwegian mathematician was a genuine original.
In March 2003, science and technology historian George Dyson gave a typically entertaining TED talk about the creatio...
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Our pi-cks of the Pi-ku competition
A few Pi-kus to get you through.
We’re delighted to say that our celebratory Pi-ku competition has brought some great examples flying in.A refresh...
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Cosmos Pi-ku 2021 competition
Celebrate all that’s good about maths by making a poem of it.
March 14 is International Day of Mathematics – UNESCO declared it so at its 40th General Conference in 2019 – and als...
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Newton in the pilot’s seat
How to land a Mars rover when you’re many, many millions of kilometres away.
It takes a lot of thought and a lot of work to land a rover on Mars. It’s not as if you’re on Earth, where you can ch...
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Courting controversy
Do Margaret Court’s food charity numbers add up?
Former tennis great Margaret Court was in the news – again – this week after being awarded a Companion of the Order o...