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The 2011 International Mathematical Olympiad will be held in the Sporthallen Zuid in Amsterdam on July 18-19. https://www.imo2011.nl/ The Australian team is: Nancy Fu, James Ruse Agricultural High School Declan Gorey, Sydney Boys High School Timothy Large, Sydney Grammar School Colin Lu...

Obama sacked General McChrystal for comments published in the Rolling Stone magazine article "The Runaway General": http://www.politico.com/pdf/PPM130_r1109mcchrystal.pdf Here is the youtube video about the sacking: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LavXfTJWQ8g

The 51st IMO was in Astana, Kazakhstan, July 7-8, 2010. Official website: http://www.imo2010org.kz Australian team: Aaron Chong, Doncaster Secondary College Timothy Large, Sydney Grammar School Stacey Law, James Ruse Agricultural High School Kiho Park, Mount Waverley Secondary College...

On Saturday, Feb 27, 2010 at Macquarie University's Macquarie Theatre, there will be the Examiners' Day for the 2009 HSC and SC maths exams. So if you want to go to get info on the marking of these exams, be there at 8:45am. It goes till about 3:55pm. You can usually also get a copy of the...

A few days ago, njwildberger posted the following on youtube: We think of natural numbers. We think of defining objects called fractions, integers, rational numbers. So we think of the concept of ''number'' in quotes as something that's open, that keeps on going. There's no bound. So we for...

Who do you think will win a Fields medal in 2010? I reckon Ngô Bảo Châu from Vietnam will win it. He proved the fundamental lemma of Langlands: http://arxiv.org/pdf/0801.0446v3 This has been chosen by Time Magazine as one of the top 10 discoveries of 2009 (although it was proved in 2008...

The 2009 Putnam Competition was held on December 5: Questions: http://www.unl.edu/amc/a-activities/a7-problems/putnam/-pdf/2009.pdf Solutions: http://www.unl.edu/amc/a-activities/a7-problems/putnam/-pdf/2009s.pdf

itute.com have published their solutions at http://www.itute.com/wp-content/uploads/2009-nsw-bos-mathematics-extension-1-solutions.pdf

itute.com have published their solutions today: http://www.itute.com/wp-content/uploads/2009-nsw-bos-mathematics-solutions.pdf

itute.com have published the solutions today at http://www.itute.com/wp-content/uploads/2009-nsw-bos-general-mathematics-solutionsv2.pdf

itute.com have started to publish solutions from today. The first one to go up was the Ext. 2 at http://www.itute.com/wp-content/uploads/2009-nsw-bos-mathematics-extension-2-solutionsv2.pdf They will probably also publish the Ext. 1, 2 Unit and General ones soon

If you want to contribute to MANSW's solutions book they publish each year, you can make a submission to MANSW of your solutions to entire papers or part thereof and/or go onto the Solutions Committee. Submissions Send by post to: Attn. Margaret Bigelow MANSW PO Box 339 North Ryde...

The International Mathematical Olympiad 2009 was held on July 15-16 at Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany. Website: http://www.imo2009.de Australian Team: Aaron Chong, Doncaster Secondary College Andrew Elvey Price, Brunswick Secondary College Stacey Law, James Ruse Agricultural High School...

Terry Tao is coming to Australia for a lecture tour. He'll be giving a public lecture "Structure and randomness in the prime numbers" at UNSW in Leighton Hall, Scientia Building on Sept. 16, 6pm. Details: 1-day meetings & lectures : Clay–Mahler lectures, University of NSW : Wed, September...

The new Mathematics Subject Classification 2010 (MSC2010) will be implemented soon. This is an update to MSC2000. I've attached the final version.

Happy Pi Day March 14 (3.14) Pi Day � The official web site for Pi Day, March 14th

At the 2008 MANSW conference hundreds of maths teachers had to endure quite a stark confusing message from the Board of Studies. On the one hand, Chris Thompson, a high ranking official from the Board of Studies said quite clearly that it is, always has been, and always will be a Board of...

A new Mersenne prime, 2^43,112,609-1 has been found on August 23, 2008 on Edson Smith's computer and is the largest known prime to date and has 12,978,189 digits 316,470,269,...,511 which you can download at http://prime.isthe.com/no.index/chongo/merdigit/long-m43112609/prime-c.html...

The IMO for 2008 was held in Madrid, Spain, July 16-17. Question paper: http://www.angelfire.com/ab7/fourunit/imo2008.pdf Website: http://www.imo-2008.es The Australian team is Paul Cheung, Sydney Technical High School, NSW Andrew Elvey Price, Brunswick Secondary College, Vic Giles Gardam...

Over the last 10 or so years, university maths departments have been decimated in Australia. Now USQ has decided to decimate it's maths department, so Terry Tao has started a petition at http://terrytao.wordpress.com/about/petition-to-support-maths-statistics-and-computing-at-usq/ I signed it...