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Tao didn't win The Australian's Australian of the Year for 2006. That award will go to The Australian Digger: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21088181-601,00.html http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21086711-7583,00.html

Here is Cooney's final report: https://www.det.nsw.edu.au/media/downloads/dethome/yr2007/cooneyreviewfll.pdf

It's better to use LaTeX which you can get at http://www.ctan.org

And here's an article which appeared on it in UNSW's Parabola Magazine in 2005:

There are proofs at http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CubicFormula.html http://mathworld.wolfram.com/QuarticEquation.html

Challenge: Now see if you can solve a⁴+3a=140 <a href="http://users.tpg.com.au/nanahcub/ans.gif">click here for the answer</a> using <a href="http://users.tpg.com.au/nanahcub/quartic.gif">this formula</a>

Yeah. That's OK. You can test the divisors of 140. Eventually you will discover that 5 works. And that's as much as you need for this question. So what are the divisors of 140? &plusmn;1, &plusmn;2, &plusmn;4, &plusmn;5, &plusmn;7, &plusmn;10, &plusmn;14, &plusmn;20 &plusmn;28...

I am not a student. And I disagree with your argument. Other states and territories have lower standards than NSW. Until they have higher standards than us, I will not be in a great rush to follow in their footsteps. But NSW isn't perfect. You lament that we don't have enough students...

There is an interim report available already. It's at https://www.det.nsw.edu.au/media/downloads/newsroom/yr2006/jun/nattestreport.pdf

At least they got it right. We need to wait for the release of the Cooney report and the Government response to it, and not merely rely on media stories.

No final decision has been made. How can the DT claim that a decision has been made when the report hasn't even been released yet? It's a headline that sells papers. At best, that's all it is, at worst, a deliberate lie. And the DT is guilty of lying too. Remember the 1996 Mount Druit HS...

Yesterday the Daily Telegraph announced that the SC will be scapped and repeated this today. However, yesterday a DET representative went onto 2GB and denied this. Channel 9 also ran a similar story denouncing the Daily Telegraph's claim. This denial was also published in today's Sydney Morning...

He's up against some stiff competition for the Australian of the Year (including 2 Nobel Laureates!) Yesterday I was sent a letter from the Chairperson from the National Australia Day Council, Lisa Curry Kenny, MBE, OAM naming the finalists. They are: Tim Flannery Philip Wollen David Conry...

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Terry Tao has been nominated for The Australian's Australian of the Year as well. We find out if he wins this one on Jan 20 in the Weekend Australian. Note that this is different to the Australian Govenment's Australian of the Year, which is the one I nominated him for, the winner for which will...

Do you feel as good when you read someone else's solution? I suspect not.

<a href="http://www.math.ucla.edu/~tao/preprints/problem.ps">Here's Terry Tao's book on problem solving</a> <a href="http://www.mathlinks.ro/Forum/portal.php">And here's the mathlinks website on problem solving</a> I think that will be better than your textbooks of mediocrity replete with...

There seems to be 2 schools of thought here: 1. Try it first, and if you don't succeed, get someone else's solution. 2. Try and try again (without looking at someone else's solutions) until YOU solve it. I reckon the second one is better - even if it takes longer to solve. A student will...

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Answers are important. But so is the struggle. For example most mathematicians were confident they knew Poincare's conjecture is valid - and this constitutes the answer. Perelman proved it which constitutes the struggle. It was announced today by Science magazine that his proof is the...