Cheryl E Praeger’s Publications


Other Publications

1974

  1. Pure mathematics in Australia, (with W.R. Bloom, J. Flood, R.H. Hunter, J.F. Price, K.M. Rangaswamy, J.W. Sanders, H. Silcock, and J. Staples), Vestes, 18-21.

1985

  1. Letter to Nambour High School End of Year Assembly, 1984, in Queensland Senior Mistresses Newsletter, 1985.
  2. Speech for End of Year Assembly, 23rd November 1984, Brisbane Girls' Grammar School Magazine, 1985, pp 7-8.

1986

  1. Speech to the Technological Futures for Women Seminar, Premier's Department, Western Australia, November 1986.

1987

  1. The Mathematics Curriculum and Teaching Program,(with D. Clarke and C. Lovitt), Gazette Austral. Math. Soc., 14, 11-12.
  2. What makes girls choose mathematics? Parabola.
  3. Foreword, in Mathematical Olympiads,The 1987 Australian Scene, Canberra College of Advanced Education, Canberra, 1987, 1-2.

1989

  1. Why don't girls do mathematics? (an edited version of a public lecture at the University of Adelaide on Gender and Curriculum in the Mathematical Sciences, 9th May, 1989), Lumen,18, No.11, 7-8.

1990

  1. Research, a personal reflection, Research Prospectus, University of Western Australia, 95.

1991

  1. Pure and applied brain power, The Australian Way, January, 37-38.

1993

  1. National Mathematics Profile (Letter to State and Federal Ministers of Education), Australian Mathematical Society Gazette, 20, pp 57-58; reprinted in : Highest Common Factor (Newsletter of AAMT), No 2, June, pp 1, 4.
  2. President's Report, 1993, Australian Mathematical Society Gazette 20, pp. 99-101.

1994

  1. President's column, Australian Mathematical Society Gazette 21 , No. 1, pp. 2-3.
  2. President's column, Australian Mathematical Society Gazette 21, No. 2, p. 34.
  3. President's column, Australian Mathematical Society Gazette 21, No. 3, p. 66.
  4. Occasional Address, Graduation Ceremony, University of South Australia.
  5. President's report to the Society, 1994, Australian Mathematical Society Gazette 21, No. 4, pp. 106-107.
  6. Foreword, in Australian Mathematics Competition, 17thAnnual Solutions and Statistics 1994, Ed. by D. G. Pederson and J. E. Bray, Australian Mathematics Trust, Canberra, vii.

1996

  1. Postgraduate supervision, Issues of teaching and learning, Vol. 2, No. 2, page 1, University of Western Australia.

1997

  1. Science careers, Australasian Science 18 36-37.

1998

  1. Portrait of Professor Bernhard Neumann, Australian Mathematical Society Gazette, 25 No. 1, pp. 30-31.
  2. Last Word, UWA Leader, August, 1998.

2001

  1. Chapter in  The God Factor, Ed: John Ashton, Harper Collins.

2002

  1. Promoting the University, The Last Word, UWA News,  21, Number 6, p. 12, May, 2002.
  2. Speech at the Australian Mathematics Trust Medal presentations, Perth November 8, 2002. http://www.amt.canberra.edu.au/praegers.html

2003

  1. Speech for B. H. Neumann Memorial Service, Canberra, December 13, 2002, Australian Mathematical Society Gazette 30, No. 1,   pp 45-47.
  2. International Congress of Mathematicians ICM2002 Beijing, in Aftermath, (Magazine of the Maths Society, The School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Western Australia), Issue 1, 2003, page 3.

2004

  1. Occasional address to the March 2004 reception for the Order of Australia recipients in the New Years Honours List - March 17, 2004, The Order News (A newsletter publication for members of The Order of Australia Association, Western Australian Branch), Issue 2, pages 5-6. Re-published, with permission, in the Wisenet Journal Vol 66, July 2004, pp. 8-9.
  2. Last word: Leadership Development for Women ten years on, UWA News,  23, Number 11, p. 12, August, 2004.

2006

  1. The life of Simon Fitzpatrick, Journal of Convex Analysis, Vol 13, pages 463-466.

2007

  1. Maths olympiad at UWA, The Engineering Essential, University of Western Australia, February 2007, p2.
  2. Editorial, IMU-Net 22, March 2007. (A bimonthly email newsletter from the International Mathematical Union: http://www.mathunion.org/Publications/Newsletter/archive/index.html)
  3. How a young Australian mathematician working in Cambridge became editor of an Australian mathematics magazine, An interview of Rachel Thomas by Cheryl E. Praeger.  WISENet Journal, Vol 75, pages 21-22.

2010

  1. Editorial, IMU-Net 40, March 2010. (A bimonthly email newsletter from the International Mathematical Union: http://www.mathunion.org/Publications/Newsletter/archive/index.html)

Selected works about Cheryl E. Praeger

  1. Women sum it up: biographical sketches of women mathematicians, by Diane Farquhar and Lynn Mary-Rose, Hazard Press, Christchurch, 1989, pp. 79--80.
  2. Endnote in the novel Leaning towards infinity, by Susan Woolfe, 1996, p.??.
  3. Chapter Story, for Chapter 8, in New Course, Mathematics, Year 9, Advanced, by Paul Bigelow and Graeme Stone (authors), and J. K. McLeod and G. D. Ganderton (consultants), Macmillan Education Australia, Melbourne, 1996, p. 227.
  4. Interview carried out by Dr Ragbir Bhathal on 11 April 1997 on behalf of the National Library of Australia, for the National oral history project on eminent Australian women scientists. The interview tapes and transcript are lodged in the Oral History section of the National Library of Australia in Canberra, Australia (TRC-3746).
  5. Notable women in mathematics, a biographical dictionary, Eds: Charlene Morrow and Teri Perl, Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, and London, 1998, pp. 169--173 (by Charlene Morrow).
  6. Profiles: Australian Women Scientists, by Ragbir Bhathal, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 1999, pp.143--151.
  7. Profile on the West Australian women in science Swim with dragons web site. 1999. http://www.swimwithdragons.com.au/leaders.html
  8. Biographies of Women Mathematicians, Department of Mathematics, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia (by Deanna Mullis, Class of 1999). http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/praeger.htm
  9. Australian Academy of Science, Interviews with Australian Scientists. 1999; video and web version:  http://www.science.org.au/scientists/cp.htm
  10. Mathematical Minds, Australian Mathematical Society Gazette Vol 36 (4) 2009, pp 244-246. http://www.austms.org.au/Gazette+Volume+36+Number+4+September+2009

RESEARCH REPORTS (NOT PUBLISHED ELSEWHERE)

  1. Rooted trees with height distributions (with P.Schultz), University of Western Australia, 1982.
  2. Some graphs related to the Johnson association schemes, University of Western Australia, 1982.
  3. Subgroups close to normal subgroups: a commentary on a paper of G.M.Bergman and H.W. Lenstra, Australian National University, 1989.