Let’s say you’re a government minister, and you’ve been tasked with the job of controlling the population. There’s one catch – in the country where you live, it is very culturally important to have a male child. Simply limiting family size to two children results in families risking having two daughters which may lead...
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Remember remember the third of November My Thompson’s Group thesis was due I look through the pieces of my Thompson’s Group thesis And still haven’t got a clue It came right down to the wire. I was still writing at 4pm… while the earlier pages of my thesis were simultaneously being printed. Despite the...
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Every year about 90 countries send teams of their six best high school students to participate in the International Mathematical Olympiad, a grueling mathematics competition in which contestants sit two exams of four and a half hours each over two days solving a total of six problems. Needless to say, these problems are of...
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620-311 Metric Spaces is a third-year mathematics subject at the University of Melbourne taught by Kris Wysocki. The Staff Student Liaison Committee (SSLC) conducts surveys and provides feedback to the department to help improve teaching. The report is typically read aloud to the class near the end of semester. Question 1, oh what fun,...
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This is the speech that I delivered when I ran for the position of president of the Melbourne University Mathematics and Statistics Society (MUMS). I was unsuccessful. I was, instead, elected to the position of Education Officer. Hello everyone, how are we all today? My name is Daniel Yeow, I’m currently in the 6th...
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This poem was written for the Melbourne University Mathematics and Statistic Society’s magazine, Paradox. It is about an experience that I experienced as a first-year (freshman) at Melbourne University. When I started maths and stats I also did philosophy in that we studied brains in vats and Descartes’ dual-lology My study habits weren’t the...
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