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Mathematics: Why We Need More Qualified Teachers

There is a crisis in the education system, and it’s affecting the life chances of many young Austral ...
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Explainer: The Point of Pure Mathematics

What is pure mathematics? What do pure mathematicians do? Why is pure mathematics important? These a ...
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Mathematics: Why we need more qualified teachers

There is a crisis in the education system, and it’s affecting the life chances of many young Austral ...
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Timetables – Hard to Read, Even Harder to Build

When you look at a train or university timetable you don’t think about how the timetable was made – ...
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If I Had a Blank Cheque I’d … Turn IBM’s ...

Money should be no object when it comes to the numbers game. krissyho Mathematics has many grand cha ...
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Want To Win at Gambling? Use Your Head

When you know the numbers, things get a whole lot easier. Roberto Bouza Gambling in Australia – Some ...
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The Million-Dollar Puzzle That Could Change The World

Cracking this mathematical mystery will make someone rich, but its value to all of us could be incal ...
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Superman Returns – But Who’s Looking After His Water?

Is it a plane? No, it’s Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics. Watching films such as Superman Returns or ...
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Are Pi’s Days Numbered?

Pi defines the relationship between a circle’s radius and its area. Some people have argued that Pi’ ...
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Quadratic Number Spirals and Polygonal Numbers

Take the positive Integer number-line, place it in the xy plane (with zero at the origin), and wrap  ...
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Generating Random Walks in Mathematics

With connections to the study of gambling, Brownian motion, fractals, and more, random walks are a f ...
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Quasi-regular Rhombic Tiling and Polyhedron

It could be argued that the square is the ‘nicest’ rhombus, but the rhombus with angles ...
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Pascal’s Triangle and Polygonal opsgf’s

The diagram above illustrates a surprising correspondence – if you take the reciprocal of a particul ...
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Spherical Tetrahedron

Imagine a tetrahedron centered inside a sphere. If you were to project the edges of the tetrahedron ...
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A Family of Sequences and Number Triangles

The triangular numbers (and higher triangular numbers) can be generated using this recurrence relati ...
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False Positives in Probability

There are plenty of probability problems that have counter-intuitive solutions. Problems like these, ...
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