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News from the School of Mathematics and Statistics.

We would like to welcome our new PhD students, who have commenced in Semester 2, 2015. We are joined by Adam Mammoliti, who is working with Thomas Britz on graph decomposition; Anna McGann, who is...

MATH1241 Higher Mathematics 1B students were recently asked to write a few words about the online aspects of course, in the form of a haiku, which is a type of traditional Japanese poetry consisting...

On Wednesday 9 September, we ran a mini Girls do the Maths workshop for a group of 40 high school girls, as part of the L'Oreal Girls in Science forum. Associate Professor Catherine Greenhill and Dr...

The 2015 Sydney University Mathematical Society Problem Competition was held this month, and UNSW students swept half of the prize pool. Our students Terence Harris (Honours), Paulus Sujono (1st year...

How do first year maths students evaluate the integral $I = \displaystyle\int \frac{x}{\sqrt{x^2 - 1}} \,dx$? A good idea is to use a substitution. But which substitution? Some options are \$x...

We are absolutely thrilled to report that for the fourth consecutive year, UNSW Mathematics and Statistics has ranked exclusively first in Australia in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (...

Articles across the mainstream media have appeared today, referencing a research project by Thomas Britz and ecologists from UNSW BEES and University of Tasmania. The project proposes to re-introduce...