The Australian Mathematical Society

Gazette

Volume 31 Number 3, July 2004

Contents

141 Editorial

142 President's Column

Tony Guttmann

144 Letter to the editors

145 Math matters

Garth Gaudry

147 Mathellaneous

Daniel Mathews

157 Brain drain

Terry Tao

160 Australian Academy of Science Fellows

161 Gravity matters

Robert Bartnik

165 Statistical properties of the primes and Riemann zeros

Peter Forrester

170 In quest of Olympiad problems

Hans Lausch

172 ICIAM 2003 - the last word

Noel Barton

173 On the importance of not jumping to conclusions

Peter Hall

175 Real world mathematics in action 2002!

Christine Mangelsdorf, Peter Taylor and Antoinette Tordesillas

184 Some representations of pi

Anthony Sofo

190 Ramanujan's approximation to the zero of a continued fraction

Michael D. Hirschhorn

194 Euler polynomials of higher order involving the Stirling numbers of the second kind

Qiu-Ming Luo

197 On weighted means preserving regular variation

Slavko Simic

202 Book reviews

207 News