Clive Granger, the Nobel Laureate in Economics and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego, who, among other things, introduced the concept of “Granger causality” to test when one time series had a causal impact on another, died last week, aged 74.
Clive wrote in support of the campaign to support the department of [...]
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In an article today for ScienceAlert entitled “Rebuilding the mathematical sciences“, Hyam Rubinstein writes on the recent decline in mathematics education in Australia, and on how to rebuild it, in particular promoting the National Maths Strategy recently completed by the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute.
(Thanks to Jan Thomas for the link.)
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The May issue of the Gazette is now online at http://www.austms.org.au/Gazette+Volume+36+Number+2+May+2009 .
The lack of suitably qualified maths teachers has long been a concern, but recently the state of maths education in Australia has received wide press coverage. Nalini Joshi discusses the recent coverage in her President’s column, and highlights the sometimes illogical arguments that have [...]
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A belated congratulations to Xu-Jia Wang from the Mathematical Science Institute at ANU for being admitted to the Australian Academy of Sciences this year!
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