Sydney University Takes a Stand on Maths
31 January 2016, Australian Financial Review, Tim Dodd. Current data released by AMSI reveals only 41 per cent of Australian universities require year 12 students to study intermediate [...]
Universities to blame for high-school maths crisis
30 January 2016, Australian Financial Review. Tim Dodd spoke to AMSI Director, Professor Geoff Prince about Australia’s maths crisis as we seek to move towards a STEM driven economy. As [...]
Corals, crochet and the cosmos: how hyperbolic geometry pervades the universe
28 January 2016, The Conversation. From lettuce and coral to the shape of the universe, 2016 AMSI Summer School public lecturer Margaret Wertheim uses nature’s crenelated forms and fluted [...]
Crochet, Coral and Mathematics
21 January 2015. ABC Radio 774, The Conversation Hour. AMSI Summer School Public Lecturer, Margaret Wertheim, discusses crochet, coral and mathematics with Jon Faine. This interview follows [...]
Maths Trick Breaking the Internet
18 January 2016, News.com.au. Article by Lifestyle Reporter, Vanessa Brown. Can it really tell you your age and shoe size? AMSI Director, Professor Geoff Prince reveals the mathematical truth [...]
Vale Professor Peter Hall FRS FAA AO
Like so many within the Australian mathematical science community, staff and members of the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute (AMSI) have been saddened by the recent passing of Professor [...]
Innovation: code-cracking contest to stir student potential
The Australian, December 8 2015. Article by National Affairs Editor, Syd Maher. AMSI Director, Professor Geoff Prince joined Australian STEM leaders in providing analysis of the National [...]
BHP Billiton chief executive Andrew Mackenzie: diversity will help fuel innovation
Sydney Morning Herald, Tuesday 15 December 2015. It is imperative Australia tackles STEM and innovation from every angle as we embrace the ‘ideas boom’. Writing in the Sydney Morning [...]
By The Numbers – Anthony Keane’s Anatomy of Winner
Adelaide Advertiser, Sunday 1 November 2015. Did you pick the winner? As Australia prepared to pause for the 2015 Melbourne Cup, NewCorp’s Anthony Keane caught up with AMSI’s Professor Inge Koch [...]
University Prerequisites blamed for rates of maths participation
ABC Radio Queensland, Wednesday, 21 October 2015. The release of AMSI’s latest report card for Year 12 mathematics participation has revealed a grim picture for Australian research and [...]
