Australian Geographic Explorers

Putting the Magic in Maths

1 You’ve written three maths books, and you’re also the subject of a novel, as part of the cool Aussie STEM Stars series.

I read all the others in the series, and there are some incredible individuals with astonishing stories, and I wondered if I belonged there. But author Rebecca Lim helped me see there’s something worth telling in everyone’s story, and she told it with so much empathy, it was a delight from beginning to end.

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