The Australian Mathematical Society

Gazette

Volume 31 Number 5, November 2004

Contents

283 Editorial

284 President's Column

Michael Cowling

285 Math matters

Peter Taylor

288 Mathellaneous

Norman Do

295 The 8th problem

Alexander Molev

298 The 48th annual meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society

301 Acceptance speech on the award of the George Szekeres medal

Bob Anderssen

309 Obituary S. Fitzpatrick

Cheryl Praeger

311 ICMI Study 16: Challenging mathematics in and beyond the classroom

Peter Taylor

314 Higher degrees and honours bachelor degrees in mathematics and statistics in Australia in 2003

Peter Johnston

320 A mathematician goes to hospital

Terry Mills

328 Wallis sequence estimated through the Euler-Maclaurin formula: even from the Wallis product $\pi$ could be computed fairly accurately

Vito Lampret

340 More terms of the asymptotic solution of a difference equation considered by Ramanujan

Helmut Prodinger

342 Book reviews

351 News

359 AustMS bulletin board