The Australian Mathematical Society

Gazette

Volume 32 Number 2, May 2005

Contents

72   Editorial

73   President's Column

Michael Cowling

75   Math matters

Larry Forbes

80   Letter to the editors

Peter Cerone

83   Mathellaneous

Norman Do

90   My brilliant career

Romesh Silva

95   The 10th problem

Igor Shparlinski

98   A "Professional Issues and Ethics in Mathematics" course

James Franklin

101 2005 Australian Academy of Science Fellows

103 ANZIAM2005: The forty-first Applied Mathematics Conference, Napier, New Zealand, 30 Jan--3 Feb 2005

Alfred Sneyd

105 Increasing access to mathematical thinking

Peter Sullivan, Judith Mousley and Robyn Zevenbergen

110 Quantifying symmetry

Jonathan Cohen

116 Ants, stochastic optimisation and reinforcement learning

Andre Costa

124 On representations of $\pi$ and $\sqrt{2}$

Mike Hirschhorn

127 Book Reviews

135 News

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