At the time, as Assange later recounted to The Age, the Applied Maths program at the university had received funding from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (known as DARPA).

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The new booklets - one written for primary schools and one for secondaries - are designed to help improve pupils' understanding of maths and how it is applied in everyday life.

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