A slice of Pi: Vietnam’s new math magazine

A brain-child of noted math Prof Ngo Bao Chau, the magazine will run items in a "user friendly" format accessible to school and college students.

“We made a hard decision but we determined to publish such a printed magazine because we hope that students will wait for the day each month to buy their favourite publication,” Chau said.

Chau used the US$15,000 cash prize he received with the 2010 Fields Medal, an international medal for outstanding discoveries in mathematics, as seed money for the magazine.

It took three years for him and his colleagues at the Vietnam Mathematical Society to prepare the contents and complete the administrative procedures to publish the magazine.