Publications

Peter Taylor: Publications

• Shallow Water Problems in Ship Hydrodynamics, with EO Tuck, 8th International Symposium in Naval Hydronamics, pp627-662, Pasadena USA, August 1970.

• The Effect of Beam Seas on a Stationary Ship in Shallow Water, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Adelaide, December 1971.

• The Blockage Coefficient for Flow about an Arbitrary Body immersed in a Channel, Journal of Ship Research, 17, 2, pp97-105, June 1973.

• A Handbook for Numerical Analysis III - The Numerical Solution of Ordinary Differential Equations, CCAE, 1975.

• Applications of Linear Algebra, ed with JEM Munro, CCAE, 1977. Also author of two chapters.

• A Handbook for the Algebra Strand of Mathematics 2, CCAE,1980.

• Book: Differential Equations I, with Oliver Penrose, Open University Course MST 204 Unit 2, OUEE 1981.

• Book: Linear Programming, with TM (Mick) Bromilow, Open University Course MST 204 Unit 10, OUEE 1981.

• Strategies for Teaching Mathematical Modelling, Newsletter on Teaching Mathematical Modelling, UNSW, 1981.

• A Handbook for the Numerical Analysis Strand of Mathematics 3, with Peter J Brown, CCAE, 1981.

• A Paper for all Regions, Proceedings of the Biennial Conference of the Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers, AAMT, Sydney, 1982.

• A Handbook for Numerical Analysis A, CCAE, 1982.

• The Australian Mathematics Competition Paper, with WJ Atkins, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Mathematical Education (ICME-5), Adelaide, 1984.

• Creating Question Papers in the Australian Mathematics Competition, Mathematics Competitions, 1, 2, August 1985.

• Gender Differences in the Australian Mathematics Competition, with C Annice, WJ Atkins, DG Pederson and GH Pollard, Proceedings, Biennial Conference of Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers, Newcastle, July 1988.

• Tournament of the Towns, Circuit (Journal of the Canberra Mathematical Association), October 1989, No. 140, pp3-8.

• Book: International Mathematics Tournament of the Towns, Questions, Strategies and Solutions, Book 1: From beginning to March 1989, Australian Mathematics Foundation Ltd, November 1989.

• Tournament of the Towns, Function, Monash University, 14, February 1990, pp14-18 (by invitation).

• Gender Differences in the Australian Mathematics Competition, with C Annice, WJ Atkins and GH Pollard, Mathematics Competitions, 3, 1, 1990, pp 34-41.

• Eleventh Tournament of the Towns, Circuit, November 1990, pp3-8.

• Tournament of the Towns, Australian Mathematical Society Gazette, 18, 4, August 1991, pp95-96.

• Measuring Risk Taking, with WJ Atkins, GC Leder, PJ O'Halloran and GH Pollard, Education Studies in Mathematics, 22, pp297-308, Netherlands 1991.

• Twelfth Tournament of the Towns, Australian Mathematical Society Gazette, 18, 6, December 1991, p168.

• Twelfth Tournament of the Towns, Circuit, November 1991, pp7-8.

• Birth of the Tournament of the Towns, with NN Konstantinov and JB Tabov, Mathematics Competitions, 4, 2, 1991, pp 28-41.

• The Growing Mathematics Competition and Enrichment Scene in Australia, New Zealand Mathematics Teacher, 1992.

• Book: International Mathematics Tournament of Towns, Problems and Solutions Book 2, 1984 to 1989, AMT Publishing, Canberra, 1992.

• Book: Australian Mathematics Competition, Book 2, 1985-1991, with PJ O'Halloran and G Pollard, AMT Publishing, Canberra, 1992.

• Thirteenth Tournament of the Towns, Australian Mathematical Society Gazette, 20, 1, pp4-6, April 1993.

• Book: International Mathematics Tournament of Towns, Problems and Solutions Book 1, 1980 to 1984, AMT Publishing, Canberra, 1993.

• Mathematics Achievement: A Question of Age?, with GC Leder, Research Briefs, 8, pp26-29, November 1993.

• Thirteenth Tournament of the Towns, Circuit, 152, pp13-14, December 1993.

• Analysis and Explorations of the Australian Mathematics Competition, Unpublished report, with GC Leder, submitted to Australian Research Council, 3 December, 1993.

• Where are Marjory, Raeleen and Betty Now?, with WJ Atkins, GC Leder and GH Pollard, Australian Mathematics Teacher, 50, 1, pp40-42, February 1994.

• Modifying Measures of Measuring Risk, with GC Leder, GH Pollard and WJ Atkins, April 1994, UC Faculty of ISE Research Report 36/94.

• Mathematically Gifted Students: Challenging the Stereotype, with GC Leder and S Fullarton, Australian Senior Mathematics Journal, 8, 2, pp13-19, 1994.

• Gender Differences in Mathematics: Trends in Performance and Attitudes, with G.C. Leder, G.H. Pollard and W.J. Atkins, March 1994, Faculty of ISE Research Report 37/94.

• Mathematics Competitions in Australia - A Personal Perspective, Australian Mathematical Society Gazette (by invitation), June 1994, pp8-10.

• Several obituaries to Peter Joseph O'Halloran, which appeared in national or international journals. These included Crux Mathematicorum, 20, 9, November 1994, pp248-249, Australian Mathematics Society Gazette, 21, 5, December 1994, pp169-172, Bulletin of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction, 37, December 1994, pp38-40, Mathematics and Informatics Quarterly, 4, 4/94, pp162-165, Bulletin of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications, 13, January 1995, pp100-103.

• Book: International Mathematics Tournament of Towns, Problems and Solutions Book 3, 1989 to 1993, AMT Publishing, Canberra, 1995.

• Gender and Mathematics Performance: A Question of Testing?, with GC Leder, Gender and Mathematics Education ed. B Grevholm and G. Hanna, Lund University Press, Hoor, Sweden, 1995, pp271-280.

• Achievement in the Australian Mathematics Competition: A Question of Age?, with G.C. Leder, Mathematics Education Research Journal, 7, 2, October 1995, pp95-110.

• Book: Methods of Problem Solving, Book 1, with Jordan Tabov, AMT Publishing, Canberra, March 1996.

• "Gender Differences in Mathematics: Trends in Performance", with GC Leder, GH Pollard and WJ Atkins, Psychological Reports, 78, 1996, pp3-17.

• Book: Australian Mathematical Olympiads 1979-1995, with Hans Lausch, AMT Publishing, Canberra, 1997.

• The Mathematics Challenge for Young Australians Enrichment Series, Circuit, December 1997, pp16-17.

• "Standards of Mathematics in Secondary Schools: An Insight via Competition Data", with GH Pollard and WJ Atkins, Mathematics Competitions, 10, 2, pp29-37, AMT Publishing, Canberra, December 1997.

• Book: International Mathematics Tournament of Towns, Problems and Solutions Book 4, 1993 to 1997, with A Storozhev, AMT Publishing, Canberra, 1998.

• Book: Australian Mathematics Competition, Book 3, 1992-1998, with WJ Atkins and JEM Munro, AMT Publishing, Canberra, 1998.

• Matematinis ugdymas Australijoje (in Lithuanian), Alpha Plius Omega, 1, 5, pp95-97, Vilnius, 1998.

• Vieno uzdavinio sprendimas (in Lithuanian), Alpha Plius Omega, 1, 7, pp73-77, Vilnius, 1999.

• Mathematical Enrichment Beyond 2000: The Australian Experience and the Role of the WFNMC, Mathematics Competitions, 12, 1, pp8-19. AMT Publishing, Canberra, 1999

• Competitions and Other Methods for Motivating Talented Students in Mathematics, Studies in Mathematical Education, Journal of the Korea Society of Mathematical Education Series F, 4, pp237-250 (in English), pp251-262 (in Korean), Seoul, 1999.

• Le tour du monde des compétitions, La Recherche, Numéro exceptionnel: Jeux mathématiques, pp96-99, Paris, May 2000.

• Australia at the Mathematical Olympics, Australian Mathematical Society Gazette, 28, 2001, pp13-18.

• The 42nd International Mathematical Olympiad, with David Hunt, The Australian Mathematical Society Gazette, 28, 4, pp198-204, October 2001.

• Book: Methods of Problem Solving, Book 2, with Jordan Tabov, AMT Publishing, Canberra, 2002.

• Taylor PJ: Challenging mathematics and its role in the learning process, ICMI Study 16 Participant Paper, 2004.

• The Role of Competitions in Mathematics Education, with Frederic Gourdeau and Petar Kenderov, report on ICME-10 Discussion Group 16, ICME 10 Proceedings 2004.

• Bulgarian Mathematics Competitions 1992 to 2001, with BJ Lazarov, JB Tabov and AM Storozhev, AMT Publishing, 2005.

• Book: Australian Mathematics Competition, Book 4, 1999-2005, with WJ Atkins, AMT Publishing, Canberra, 2006.

• Leder GC, Forgasz HJ, and Taylor PJ; Mathematics, gender, and large scale data: New directions or more of the same? In J. Novotná, H. Moraová, M. Krátká, N. Stehliková (Eds.) Mathematics in the centre. Proceedings of the 30th conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education 4, pp. 33-40. Prague, Charles University: PME, 2006.

• Book: Henry JB, Dowsey J, Edwards AR, Mottershead LJ, Nakos A, Vardaro G, Taylor PJ, Challenge! Book 1, 1991 to 1998, AMT Publishing, Canberra, 2008.

• Yevdokimov O and Taylor PJ; Notes on ”Perpetual Question” of Problem Solving: How Can Learners Best Be Taught Problem-Solving Skills?, Journal of the Korea Society of Mathematical Education Series D: Research in Mathematical Education, 12, 3, pp 1-14, September 2008.

• Ed Barbeau and Peter Taylor, ICMI Study: Mathematical Challenges, Mathematics Competitions, 21, 2, pp. 81-86, 2008.

• Barbeau EJ and Taylor PJ; Challenging Mathematics in and beyond the Classroom, The 16th ICMI Study, Springer, New York, 2009.

• Also co-author of two chapters:

  • Chapter 1: Challenging Problems: Mathematical Contents and Sources

  • Chapter 2: Challenges Beyond the Classroom – Sources and Organisational Issues

• Book: Atkins WJ and Taylor PJ, Australian Mathematics Competition, Primary Division, Book 1, 2004 to 2008, AMT Publishing, Canberra, 2009.

• Book: Henry JB and Taylor PJ, Challenge! Book 2, 1999 to 2006, AMT Publishing, Canberra, 2009.

• Taylor PJ; Challenge in Mathematics Learning – Where to from here?, Chapter 5 of Leikin, Roza, Berman, Abraham and Koichu, Boris, Creativity in Mathematics and the Education of Gifted Students, Sense, Rotterdam, 2009.

• Book: Liu A and Taylor PJ, International Mathematics Tournament of Towns, Problems and Solutions, Book 6, 2002-2007, AMT Publishing, Canberra, 2009.

• Peter Taylor, WFNMC 25 years on: some experiences, Mathematics Competitions, 22, 1, 2009, pp. 10-18.

• Leder GC and Taylor PJ; Are Raelene, Marjorie and Betty still in the race? Australian Mathematics Teacher, 66, 4, 2010, pp. 17-24.

• Book: Lausch H, Di Pasquale A, Hunt DC and Taylor PJ, Australian Mathematical Olympiads Book 2, 1995-2011, AMT Publishing, Canberra, 2011.

• Taylor, Peter, What Role do Competitions have in creating Great Mathematicians?, MCG Newsletter 1, December 2011.

• Book: Jordan Tabov, Emil Kolev and Peter Taylor, Methods of Problem Solving, Book 3, AMT Publishing, Canberra, March 2012.

• The IMO and IOI: Comparisons (by invitation), in Olympiads in Informatics, pp 199-204, 6, Vilnius, 2012.

• Book: Atkins WJ and Taylor PJ, Australian Mathematics Competition, Book 5, 2006 to 2012, AMT Publishing, Canberra, 2012.

• McAvaney KL, Taylor PJ and Thornton S, Euler and the Mathematics Challenge for Young Australians, Australian Mathematics Society Gazette, pp 119-124, 39, 3, July 2012.

• Taylor, Peter, Book Review Classical Geometry: Euclidean, Transformational, Inversive and Projective, by IE Leonard, JE Lewis, ACF Liu, GW Tolarsky, pub. John Wylie and Son, Inc, Hoboken NJ, 2014, Mathematics Competitions, 27, 1, pp. 74-75, 2014.

• Taylor, Peter, Classifying Methods of Problem Solving - and my Favourites, Mathematics Competitions, 28, 1, pp 7-27, 2015.

• Taylor, Peter, Chapter 12 Future Directions of Research in Mathematics Competitions of Soifer, Alexander (editor), Competitions for Young Mathematicians: A Perspective from Five Continents, Springer, Switzerland, 2017.

• Taylor, Peter James, Examples of Mathematics and Competitions influencing each other, Mathematics Competitions, 32, 1, pp 8-23, 2019.

• Taylor, Peter and McAvaney, Kevin, Examples of Mathematics and Competitions Influencing each other, an upgraded version of the 2019 paper in Engaging Young Students in mathematics through Competitions, World Perspectives and Practices, Volume II, Mathematics Competitions and how they relate to Research, Teaching and Motivation, 15-34, World Scientific PublishingCo. Pte. Ltd., Singapore, 2020.

• Taylor PJ (ed.) Tournament of Towns Vol 1, arranged by Lyubomir Lyubemov as translated from Vol 1 in English above, but in Bulgarian with solutions by Bulgarian students. ISSN 2367-654X. 2022.

• Maria Falk de Losada and Peter James Taylor, Perspectives on mathematics competitions and their relationship with mathematics education, ZDM - Mathematics Education, 8 Aug 2022. Online at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11858-022-01404-z . Note that the Peter Taylor linked there via Google Scholar is someone else with the same name.  In October 2022 published in hard copy 54, 5 , this issue co-edited by de Losada and Taylor and this being the survey article on pp 941 to 960.

• Andy Liu and Peter Taylor, Mathematical Recreations from the Tournament of the Towns, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, Boca Raton, FL, 33487-2742 ISBN 978-1-032-35292-3 (hbk) 978-1-032-35290-9 (pbk) 978-1-003-32621-2 (ebk), 2023.

• Boris Koichu, Peter Taylor, Ingrid Semanišinová, Yijun Yao, and Sergei Dorichenko, Report of Topic Study Group 46,  Mathematical Competitions and Other Challenging Activities, Proceedings of ICME-14, https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/13700-vol1#t=aboutBook , Vol 1, pp565-569, World Scientific, Shanghai, 2024.

• Taylor, Peter, Milestones, Memories, Perspectives, Mathematics Competitions, 37, 2, pp 7-17, 2024.

ARC Grant

In 1993-4, received a research grant from the Australian Research Council with Professor Gilah Leder, of La Trobe Iniversity, to investigate gender differences and profile the gifted student.