15 March 2021 We announce the winner of this coveted prize
9 March 2021 Have your say, and help to choose the 2020 Readers' Choice
9 March 2021 We review the seventh of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year, and open the vote for the readers' favourite
9 March 2021 We review the sixth of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
4 March 2021 We review the fifth of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
2 March 2021 We review the fourth of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
1 March 2021 We review the third of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
23 February 2021 We review the second of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
22 February 2021 We review the first of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
15 February 2021 We announce the shortlist
14 January 2021 Łukasz takes us on a tour through a surprisingly diverse range of algorithms to test for divisibility by 7
2 January 2021 We reveal the solutions to our Christmas puzzles!
26 December 2020 Puzzle #3 in our 2020 Christmas puzzle series
25 December 2020 Puzzle #2 in our 2020 Christmas puzzle series
24 December 2020 Puzzle #1 in our 2020 Christmas puzzle series
11 December 2020 Belgin gets hooked on a classic maths game...in 16 bits! Here's her review...
26 November 2020 Try out these flo-maps for yourself: fractions speak louder than words
26 November 2020 Hugh Duncan returns with the long-awaited prequel in which he further explores the geometric patterns hidden behind the fractions.
10 November 2020 Now available to catch up on YouTube
30 October 2020 Independent Sage's Christina Pagel, hyperbolic mindfulness and make-your-own Markov tweet feature in our latest edition. Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
30 October 2020 Ellen Jolley asks for (independent) Sage advice
30 October 2020 Books, business and barns are the topics readers have sent in to the professor's postbox this issue
30 October 2020 £100 of MathsGear goodies to be won if you can solve it
30 October 2020 Maynard manages to prove that 2≠1 in less space than it took Bertrand Russell to prove that 1+1=2
30 October 2020 Florian Bouyer explains the beautiful geometry behind his mathematical colouring-in designs.
30 October 2020 A handy tool that can make writing great tweets much easier
30 October 2020 Who is behind the so-called Nobel prize of mathematics? Gerda Grase investigates.
30 October 2020 Sam Hartburn attempts the impossible
30 October 2020 Does maths need a Nobel prize?
30 October 2020 Emilio McAllister Fognini explores the maths that made Turing so famous
30 October 2020 Fashion is fleeting, Chalkdust regulars are not.
30 October 2020 Make your own scatterer from some old Christmas decorations
30 October 2020 I love Markov is I love Markov chains love me.
30 October 2020 Scroggs debates whether sharing truly is caring
30 October 2020 Solitons
30 October 2020 Have your say
30 October 2020 Colin counts Countdown's contingent of conundrum causing calculations
30 October 2020 James M Christian reflects on chaos
30 October 2020 The definitive chart of the best day trips
1 October 2020 Did you solve it?
17 April 2020 Adam Townsend sets the fifth and final puzzle. Can you solve it?
17 April 2020 Humbug sets the fourth puzzle. Can you solve it?
17 April 2020 David Sheard sets the third puzzle. Can you solve it?
17 April 2020 TD Dang sets the second puzzle. Can you solve it?
17 April 2020 Space-filling curves, cheating at cards and automated joke generation feature in our spring 2020 edition. Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
17 April 2020 Celebrate the launch of issue 11 by taking part in our puzzle hunt
17 April 2020 We chat with Trachette about her work in mathematical oncology, her role models, and boosting diversity in mathematics
17 April 2020 £100 of MathsGear goodies to be won if you can solve it
17 April 2020 Are you a torus? A cone? Ed Spheran? Find out by answering a maximum of five easy questions
17 April 2020 Kevin Houston teaches us how to deal ourselves the best hand
17 April 2020 Grant applications, musical media and last-minute Olympics training are the topics readers have sent in to the professor's postbox this issue
17 April 2020 Mara Kortenkamp, Erin Henning and Anna Maria Hartkopf give us a tour of Polytopia, a home for peculiar polytopes
17 April 2020 I like my towns like I like my Alex: Bolton
17 April 2020 Sam Hartburn orders wine by the barrel, but wonders if she's getting the most wine
17 April 2020 Nobody could draw a space filling curve by hand, but that doesn’t stop Andrew Stacey
17 April 2020 Vote for your favourite maths-themed day out
17 April 2020 Some saucy modelling
17 April 2020 Like Fibonacci, but weird. Robert J Low and Thierry Platini explain
17 April 2020 Make your own Ecki
17 April 2020 David Sheard explores the rich mathematics and history behind the Apollonian packing, and the cover of issue 11
17 April 2020 Fashion is fleeting, Chalkdust regulars are not.
17 April 2020 The definitive chart of the best pictures of scorpions
17 April 2020 Yuliya Nesterova orders some polynomials around
17 April 2020 Matthew Scroggs sets the first puzzle. Can you solve it?
9 April 2020 Issue 11 of everyone's favourite magazine for the mathematically curious is coming very soon
26 March 2020 Did you solve it?
5 March 2020 Issah Merchant discusses the geometric principles behind, and real-world applications of, curvature
27 February 2020 We announce the winner of this coveted prize
20 February 2020 Have your say, and help to choose the 2019 Readers' Choice
20 February 2020 We review the ninth of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
19 February 2020 We review the eighth of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
18 February 2020 We review the sevnth of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
17 February 2020 We review the sixth of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
16 February 2020 We review the fifth of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
10 February 2020 We review the fourth of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
6 February 2020 We review the third of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
4 February 2020 We review the second of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
3 February 2020 We review the first of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
30 January 2020 We reveal the shortlist
10 December 2019 21 simple steps to draw your own Islamic pattern!
23 October 2019 Computational proofs, AI music and embarrassing surveys feature in the autumn 2019 issue. Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
23 October 2019 Can you solve it?
23 October 2019 And will we soon all be out of a job? Kevin Buzzard worries us all.
23 October 2019 Letter writing, hospital visits, and getting the family active are among the topics of discussion in this issue's Dear Dirichlet advice column
23 October 2019 We chat to the crypto chief about inventing RSA... but not being able to tell anyone
23 October 2019 Part 7 of our mathematical comic's adventure
23 October 2019 Yiannis Petridis connects square roots and continued fractions
23 October 2019 Pamela E Harris's story, as told by Talithia Williams
23 October 2019 Carmen Cabrera Arnau explores the use of AI in composition
23 October 2019 How do you like your numbers? Prime? Positive but infinitely small? Find out which famous mathematician you are
23 October 2019 Angela Brett might not be standing on their shoulders
23 October 2019 This article will (unsurprisingly) tell you how to crochet a fractal
23 October 2019 Ever thought about making your own fractal?
23 October 2019 Explaining the mathematics of tiling, and the cover of Issue 10
23 October 2019 Fashion is fleeting, Chalkdust regulars are not.
23 October 2019 The definitive chart of the best issues of Chalkdust
23 October 2019 You won't bee-lieve it
23 October 2019 Paula Rowińska uses mathematics to answer some awkward questions
23 October 2019 Vote for your favourite picture of a scorpion
23 October 2019 Andrei Chekmasov explores order and infinity
23 October 2019 Tasty and mathematical
15 October 2019 Come along to our launch party for free pizza and the real quiz
1 October 2019 A month celebrating the contributions of black mathematicians
27 September 2019 Did you solve it?
1 August 2019 Hugh Duncan explores an exciting variation on Conway's Game of Life
6 June 2019 We have a go at the puzzles in Daniel Griller’s new book
23 May 2019 W.L. Feldhusen explains the obscure sine-finding trick hiding inside your calculator!
2 May 2019 Tony Pisculli dissects the lyrics from a popular song
18 April 2019 The scientific story behind the cover of Joy Division's treasured debut
4 April 2019 A podcast for the mathematically curious
28 March 2019 In 2018, scientists discovered a new shape that is essential to multicellular life
14 March 2019 Ride a phantom parabola into our spring 2019 issue. Billiards, maths, tiles, mistakes, plus all your favourite regulars.
14 March 2019 Win £100 of Maths Gear goodies by solving our famously fiendish crossnumber
14 March 2019 Stephen Muirhead meets neither, as he explores waves, tiles and percolation theory
14 March 2019 Coffee, Brexit and badgers are among the topics of discussion in this issue's Dear Dirichlet advice column
14 March 2019 Yuliya Nesterova misses all the pockets, but does manage to solve some cubics
14 March 2019 Mystic mug has some predictions for you...
14 March 2019 Axel Kerbec gets locked out while exchanging keys
14 March 2019 The definitive chart of the best Chalkdust regulars
14 March 2019 Interviewing Matt was a mistake
14 March 2019 Lucy Rycroft-Smith reflects on the use of this well-established measurement
14 March 2019 Your guide to creating the optimal homepage
14 March 2019 Find out more about the spiral trees on the cover of Issue 09
14 March 2019 Fashion is fleeting, Chalkdust regulars are not.
14 March 2019 Are you u or i? Am I? Who?
14 March 2019 An adventure that starts with a morning of bell ringing and ends with a mad dash in a taxi
14 March 2019 Vote for your favourite Chalkdust issue
14 March 2019 Zoe Griffiths investigates paranormal quadratics
14 March 2019 Using graph theory to predict who will sit the iron throne
14 March 2019 Peter Rowlett uses combinatorics to generate caterpillars
14 March 2019 How big are these random shapes? Submit an answer for a chance to win a prize!
8 March 2019 Celebrate International Women's day by reading about rebel women in mathematics!
7 March 2019 More sartorial inquisition for your feet
1 March 2019 Read the magazine, and come to the launch party!
28 February 2019 A podcast for the mathematically curious
21 February 2019 Did the Danish mathematician also sail the high seas?
14 February 2019 Did you solve it?
7 February 2019 Tricks and puzzles that provide an introduction to the world of partitions
31 January 2019 A podcast for the mathematically curious
24 January 2019 How can we teach people about the sieve in a way that helps them best understand prime numbers?
17 January 2019 Investigating the power of thinking rationally
10 January 2019 Looking back at puzzles about complex numbers, tic-tac-toe, and the Eggnog Mystery
2 January 2019 Lies, liquor and logical deduction play their part in this festive holiday tale
18 December 2018 Why do Christmas lights get tangled? And what's the perfect way to decorate a Christmas tree? Find the answers here.
14 December 2018 Win this year's best book of geometry puzzles
11 December 2018 Looking back at the exciting day that closed our 2018 celebrations
6 December 2018 Win a DVD boxset from Festival of the spoken nerd in our first Christmas competition!
29 November 2018 Mike Fletcher explores the optimal strategy for winning the popular television game show
22 November 2018 Bring your shovel, and dig with us to unearth some amazing results about polynomials
16 November 2018 A podcast for the mathematically curious
15 November 2018 Hugh Duncan explores polygons with a shortage of edges
8 November 2018 What is pi? How do we define it and who first thought of it? We explore the history of this quintessential mathematical constant.
1 November 2018 Introducing Mathscon, a mathematics conference with a difference!
30 October 2018 John Pougué Biyong explains how and why science communication can lead to better diversity.
25 October 2018 Reviewing the Royal Institution's first Black History Month event.
19 October 2018 Surprise yourself by making this thing
18 October 2018 Swing on a magnetic pendulum into our autumn 2018 issue. Topological tic-tac-toe, maths, cake, categories, plus all your favourite regulars.
18 October 2018 Print it out and play against your friends!
18 October 2018 We chat to the author of the best-selling book How to Bake Pi and pioneer of maths on YouTube
18 October 2018 Win £100 of Maths Gear goodies by solving our famously fiendish crossnumber
18 October 2018 Colin Beveridge looks at different designs for 2- and 3-dimensional tiles
18 October 2018 Alex Bolton plays noughts and crosses on unusual surfaces
18 October 2018 Read about Maxamillion Polignac's adventures in a prime-hating world
18 October 2018 Adam Atkinson uses maths to try to help a sculptor
18 October 2018 See what we're doing this October to promote and celebrate diversity in mathematics
18 October 2018 Are you perfect or imaginary? Are you a square?
18 October 2018 Find out more about the weird shapes on the cover of Issue 08
18 October 2018 Village fetes, Brexit and flowers are among the topics of discussion in this issue's Dear Dirichlet advice column
18 October 2018 Elizabeth A Williams falls off a log
18 October 2018 The definitive chart of the best units
18 October 2018 Emma Bell explains why the Renaissance mathematician Gerolamo Cardano styled himself as the "man of discoveries".
18 October 2018 Tired of hearing people ask which area of maths is your favourite? Get one of these tattooed on your forehead and you'll never be asked again...
18 October 2018 Vote for your favourite Chalkdust regular
18 October 2018 Many mysteries about hair are now revealed with the ponytail shape equation
18 October 2018 Fashion is fleeting, Chalkdust regulars are not.
18 October 2018 Just what is category theory? Tai-Danae Bradley explains
18 October 2018 Biography of Katherine Johnson, NASA human computer and research mathematician
18 October 2018 A tabletop demonstration of chaos.
11 October 2018 Nira Chamberlain explains how Black Panther's suit can be modelled mathematically
9 October 2018 Clive Fraser reflects on his interactions with one of the greatest ever Black mathematicians
9 October 2018 This month’s round up of mathematical blog posts from all over the internet
4 October 2018 We look back at last year's Black Mathematician Month, and give a preview of what to expect this October.
3 October 2018 You'll never believe number 3!
27 September 2018 Join us at our upcoming launch party!
20 September 2018 We explore the concept of emptiness in set theory, and explain how zero went from "nothing" to "something"
6 September 2018 Introducing the work that has won mathematics' most famous award
30 August 2018 Exploring the beauty of complex numbers, their origins and why they are important
23 August 2018 How does one produce a net for the broadest class of polyhedra?
16 August 2018 ... and how Chalkdust played a role in one of them
9 August 2018 Did you solve it?
26 July 2018 Exploring non-random walks using fractions
28 June 2018 A review of Vicky Neale's new book about the quest to understand prime numbers.
21 June 2018 We analyse the maths and physics required to execute a good chip shot
14 June 2018 Discover the mathematical equations that describe the most commonly observed trajectories in football
7 June 2018 An unexpected way to beat the odds in this classic game
4 June 2018 Defining what exactly an integral is leads naturally to an explanation of how to handle approximating them.
31 May 2018 A selection of weird goings-on from the world of fluid mechanics
17 May 2018 A thrilling review of this truly enlightening book
10 May 2018 Blood is exceptionally complicated and its composition varies from person to person. So how do we begin to model it?
3 May 2018 A mathematically-themed version of the classic card game, with several new features
26 April 2018 A collection of our favourite and least favourite things named after Euler, from issue 07
19 April 2018 Have you been wondering what the pattern on it means?
12 April 2018 ``Read Euler, read Euler, he is the master of us all." -- Laplace. An invitation to join us in celebrating Euler's 311th birthday by appreciating a few of his great contributions to mathematics.
5 April 2018 Or, how a simple problem can get very complicated, very quickly...
29 March 2018 Let's take a look at patterns that can be discovered in Fibonacci numbers and how we can find them around us.
12 March 2018 Think outside outside the box in our spring 2018 issue. No more tennis puns, primes mod 4, plus all your favourite regulars.
12 March 2018 No more Katie Steckles.
12 March 2018 Rob Eastaway joins the dots.
12 March 2018 Pigs, popes and produce are among the topics of discussion in this issue's Dear Dirichlet advice column
12 March 2018 Win £100 of Maths Gear goodies by solving our famously fiendish crossnumber
12 March 2018 Sam Hartburn bakes your favourite fractal
12 March 2018 Zoe Griffiths on the life of e
12 March 2018 High stakes gambling with Paula Rowińska
12 March 2018 Part 6 of our mathematical comic's adventure
12 March 2018 In this edition of the series, we instead learn about 'routes' and Edsger Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm.
12 March 2018 Alex Xela shows us the world of palindromic numbers, and calculates the chances of getting one
12 March 2018 Find out more about the patterns on the cover of Issue 07
12 March 2018 The definitive chart of the best dates
12 March 2018 Biography of Sir Christopher Zeeman
12 March 2018 Race to be the first to get five-in-a-row
12 March 2018 Infinitely many primes ending in 1, 3, 7 and 9 proved in typically Eulerian style.
12 March 2018 Vote for your favourite unit
12 March 2018 Make a catastrophe machine just like Zeeman's
12 March 2018 Start your quest to conquer the planet with this introduction to the wonderful world of machine learning
12 March 2018 Modelling unemployment using simple differential equations!
12 March 2018 Undoubtedly the most influential voice on this hottest of hot topics.
12 March 2018 John Dore and Chris Woodcock join the dots
12 March 2018 We chat to one of the UK's most qualified voices in mathematics communication
12 March 2018 Fashion is fleeting, Chalkdust regulars are not.
8 March 2018 You won't believe number 5!
1 March 2018 What is the probability that d+2 random points in d-dimensional space form a convex body? Investigating an old problem using modern methods.
26 February 2018 Join us at our upcoming launch party!
23 February 2018 "Unlocking the hidden mathematics in video games"
14 February 2018 Learn how to model your heart one beat at a time ❤️
8 February 2018 Belgin plays a classic mathsy game from her childhood...in 16-bit graphics! Here's her review...
1 February 2018 You can un-knot a knot, by cutting it not?
25 January 2018 Why do surnames die out? We take a look at the Galton-Watson process for modelling the extinction of surnames to answer the question: 'When will we all be Smiths?'
24 January 2018 Did you solve it?
18 January 2018 A fiendish puzzle for you to 'pour' over...
11 January 2018 Some summations seem strangely slippery...
4 January 2018 Uniting the teaching of mathematics and music can benefit pupils greatly in both areas.
31 December 2017 What have we been up to this year?
31 December 2017 ... and the winners
22 December 2017 Can you solve four puzzles to reveal the hidden message?
21 December 2017 Reviewing this week's conundrum prize... science-y stuff staring you in the face!
18 December 2017 Try our nonograms! And remember, not all puzzles have a unique solution...
14 December 2017 Christmas is coming, and Santa will soon begin his journey. We analyse the science and maths behind his trip.
11 December 2017 Solve this and you could be the lucky winner of a signed copy of The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus
7 December 2017 We round up some of the last month's top mathematical posts from around the internet
4 December 2017 Solve this and you could be the lucky winner of a Chalkdust T-shirt
30 November 2017 As the festive season strikes again, we'll be dishing out more fiendish puzzles – this time with prizes!
23 November 2017 Should you ask Santa for 'Ice Col' Beveridge's encyclopedic tome this festive period?
16 November 2017 Chalkdust descends upon the UK's largest pop maths gathering and tells you what you missed
9 November 2017 When you get tired of using your calculator for numbers, why not use it for words?
2 November 2017 Maths has strong connections to art and music, but what about to both at the same time?
31 October 2017 Reflecting on what we've learnt over the past few weeks.
27 October 2017 The co-author of a recent paper on diversity in professional STEM societies talks about access to science.
26 October 2017 Meet Talitha Washington, an activist, mathematician, and professor
25 October 2017 Stories and lessons on diversity in mathematics from a globe-trotting number theorist.
24 October 2017 We spoke with Jonathan Farley about his research and experiences as a black mathematician.
23 October 2017 As part of Black Mathematician Month, we spoke to the Bristol University professor about access schemes and the importance of mentors.
19 October 2017 Cardioids in coffee cups, counting with three fingers, and breakfast at Villani's. Plus the return of all your favourite fun pages in our autumn 2017 issue.
18 October 2017 Win £100 of Maths Gear goodies by solving our famously fiendish crossnumber
18 October 2017 We feel underdressed for Breakfast at Villani's
18 October 2017 Prof. Dirichlet tackles archaeology and supercomputers in answering your personal problems
18 October 2017 Staring at your coffee, you wonder whether the light reflecting in cup really is a cardioid curve...
18 October 2017 Robert J Low flips one upside down.
18 October 2017 Part 5 of our mathematical comic's adventure
18 October 2017 We take a proper look at her mathematical accomplishments
18 October 2017 "R" you a Matlab or a Python? Fortran or Mathematica? Find out which package suits you best.
18 October 2017 The definitive chart of the best tools
18 October 2017 A biography of Sophie Bryant
18 October 2017 Mathematical fashion advice for an ever-changing world
18 October 2017 Vote for your favourite mathematical celebration day
18 October 2017 Murder, maths, malaria and mammals
18 October 2017 Blaise Pascal was driven to begin the mechanisation of mathematics by his father's struggles with an accounts book in 17th century France.
18 October 2017 Euclidean Egg III makes the cover of issue 06!
18 October 2017 Contemplate the beauty of the Julia and Mandelbrot sets and an elegant mathematical explanation of them
18 October 2017 Modelling a Saturday afternoon on Oxford Street
18 October 2017 A great way to waste a lot of paper
18 October 2017 20 questions, the axiom of choice and colouring sequences.
17 October 2017 How many did you spot?
16 October 2017 Stories that illustrate the barriers that black mathematicians have faced in recent history.
13 October 2017 Data scientist Jonny Brooks-Bartlett gives his views as part of Black Mathematician Month.
11 October 2017 Meet Olubunmi Abidemi Fadipe-Joseph, an active promoter for women in mathematics from Nigeria
9 October 2017 Nira Chamberlain, one of the UK's top 100 scientists, shares his experiences as a black mathematician.
6 October 2017 Natalya Silcott introduces us to star polynomials!
4 October 2017 Our first interview celebrating Black Mathematician Month
2 October 2017 Promoting black mathematicians, and talking about building a more representative mathematical community.
2 October 2017 Free launch party, 7.15pm. Come along!
28 September 2017 A polygon with four and a half sides?!
21 September 2017 While drinking beer in your favourite pub, have you ever wondered how it is produced? Find here some of the science and mathematics behind brewing.
14 September 2017 Take a ball, divide it into parts, glue them back and get two identical copies of your ball!
7 September 2017 A hideous equation that hides beautiful images, and much (much) more besides...
31 August 2017 How processes used in image editing are related to mathematics!
24 August 2017 We created hot ice from scratch, a solution that remains liquid even below its freezing point!
17 August 2017 A quick look at how to get the most bang for your buck the next time you're in a bidding war
10 August 2017 A summer essential or an embarrassment risk on the streets of Ibiza?
3 August 2017 How to win a game when your expected score is 0
27 July 2017 Did you win?
20 July 2017 Write down a quadratic. What is the probability that it factorises? Paging Prof. Dirichet...
13 July 2017 A crossnumber clue takes us plunging headfirst towards projective geometry
11 July 2017 Human migration with mathematical models, data and a hands-on experiment!
6 July 2017 Some interesting observations with the pigeonhole principle
29 June 2017 Have a go at these puzzles, adequate for your holidays!
22 June 2017 We take a look at the top 10 emojis!
15 June 2017 Next time you are finished using a paper cup, create your own papercupter!
8 June 2017 Read about our least favourite numbers in this collection from issue 5!
1 June 2017 Discover the mysteries behind the most spectacular free-kick ever scored and how Newton can help us to simulate it.
25 May 2017 Finding the best picture at the Leaning Tower of Pisa is all about the maths rather than the pose!
17 May 2017 Each time you eat a croissant you might be biting more than 500 layers of dough!
11 May 2017 We have a go at the puzzles in Daniel Griller's new book
4 May 2017 We chat to Marcus about science communication, teaching mathematics in schools, and how to make group theory sound sexy.
27 April 2017 Negative polygons and other mathematical creations
20 April 2017 In the Aztec city of Atzlan, the scientist Remotep makes a revolutionary discovery
16 April 2017 How optimising the space around a circular monument is related to supereggs
13 April 2017 When you're caught in the rain without an umbrella... what is your best option?
6 April 2017 Unexpected item in bagging areAAAARGGGHH here's 90p change in pennies
30 March 2017 After 100 years, a key postulate of the third law of thermodynamics has been proven. We meet Lluis Masanes, one of the researchers responsible.
27 March 2017 Not the new coin we want, but the new coin we need
23 March 2017 How to make the most slices from just a few cuts of cake
6 March 2017 Graphical linear algebra, slide rules and game theory in nature. Plus all your favourite fun pages in our spring 2017 issue.
6 March 2017 We chat to the chief scientific advisor to the Home Office about the role of scientists and mathematicians in politics
6 March 2017 Rediscover linear algebra by playing with circuit diagrams
6 March 2017 Explain the strange dynamics of certain insects using game theory
6 March 2017 Fermat's Last Theorem with complex powers, wrapped in a story every mathematician can relate to
6 March 2017 When slide rules used to rule... find out why they still do
6 March 2017 Factorisation is often used in cryptography. But there's something even simpler which turns out to be just as hard.
6 March 2017 Folding origami, building networks, making projections and multiple dimensions!
6 March 2017 What is the real story behind the lady with the lamp?
6 March 2017 Mary Somerville fights against social mores to become one of the leading mathematicians of her time.
6 March 2017 Win £100 of Maths Gear goodies by solving our famously fiendish crossnumber
6 March 2017 Read more about the fire-breathing curves that appear on the cover of issue 05
6 March 2017 Mathematical fashion advice for an ever-changing world
6 March 2017 Prof. Dirichlet tackles political arguments and werewolves in answering your personal problems
6 March 2017 Part 4 of our mathematical comic's adventure
6 March 2017 Solve the puzzles that appeared in Issue 05.
6 March 2017 How to model bread making!
6 March 2017 Are you feeling ideal? In your prime? Discover your inner mathematical object (plus handy term explainer).
6 March 2017 Make calculations easy with this simple-to-make slide rule
6 March 2017 The definitive chart of the circle's greatest parts
6 March 2017 Vote for your favourite geometry instrument
6 March 2017 The answers to the puzzles that appeared in issue 05
2 March 2017 How many did you spot?
23 February 2017 Free launch party, 7.15pm. Come along! Free copies of Chalkdust, free pizza, and buy your own Chalkdust T-shirt.
16 February 2017 What connects the products of twin primes with something you learnt in primary school and the number 8?
14 February 2017 A tragic love story of shares and viral songs. To share, or not to share...
9 February 2017 For those of you tackling this dilemma, here's your answer...
2 February 2017 Some surprising mathematical facts
27 January 2017 Here are some highlights of the first two years of Chalkdust!
26 January 2017 Are you a winner?
19 January 2017 Lindsay Lohan is really good at L'Hôpital's rule.
12 January 2017 Why the infamous acronym needs revising.
5 January 2017 Can you wear them and be taken mathematically seriously?
31 December 2016 Before we say 'Goodbye' to 2016 let us highlight a few of the articles on the Chalkdust website.
24 December 2016 It's the last day of the Chalkdust advent calendar, so there must be something very good behind today's door...
23 December 2016 Behind today's door... a puzzle!
22 December 2016 Behind today's door... A book review!
21 December 2016 Behind today's door... More fascinating facts!
20 December 2016 Behind today's door... Another carol!
19 December 2016 Find your perfect partner with this wonderful tree diagram!
18 December 2016 Behind today's door... A joke!
17 December 2016 Agony uncle Professor Dirichlet answers your personal problems this Christmastime.
16 December 2016 Behind today's door... A quiz!
15 December 2016 This year's Chalkdust puzzle Christmas card
14 December 2016 Santa's sack of scientific surprises
13 December 2016 Behind today's door... a quiz!
12 December 2016 Behind today's door... a puzzle!
11 December 2016 This post was part of the Chalkdust 2016 Advent Calendar. Newton: “Are you going to the Fibonacci themed Christmas party?” Euler: “Yes! I heard it’s going to be as big as the two previous years put together.”
10 December 2016 Behind today's door... a good joke!
9 December 2016 Behind today's door... A binary magic card trick!
8 December 2016 Winter is coming!
7 December 2016 Behind today's door... The Chalkdust guide to Christmas presents
6 December 2016 Behind today's door... a puzzle!
5 December 2016 And on the fifth day, some rather Algebraic Golden Rings:
4 December 2016 Behind today's door... a mathematical Christmas Carol
3 December 2016 Santa's sack of scientific surprises
2 December 2016 Behind the second door of the advent calendar, there is a puzzle
1 December 2016 Get into the ChristMATHS spirit with the maths behind the popular Christmas carol!
24 November 2016 How crime science, and the maths it uses, is helping the police fight crime
17 November 2016 Here we have collected our favourite sets, from the Mandelbrot set to the Mahut-Isner set!
10 November 2016 Using modern technology to understand geometry
3 November 2016 The algebra will set your heart aflutter.
27 October 2016 Constructing a spiderweb: in the spookiest and most horrific way possible!
20 October 2016 The Great Fire of London, a little-known polymath and a Monument...
13 October 2016 A blast from the past. Modelling battle grounds from ancient Greece.
4 October 2016 Vote for your favourite part of a circle
3 October 2016 Problem solving 101, proof by storytelling, plus the return of all your favourite fun pages in our autumn 2016 edition.
3 October 2016 Never be stumped by a maths problem again, with this crash course from the ever-competent Stephen Muirhead
3 October 2016 Follow our flowchart to find out where your true calling is
3 October 2016 Part 3 of our mathematical comic's adventure
3 October 2016 James Grime gets intimate with 'the most beautiful woman in the world' from the golden age of Hollywood
3 October 2016 Colin Wright juggles Euler, doodling and Millennium problems
3 October 2016 Don't be left behind... more mathematical fashion advice
3 October 2016 Make your own treasures, guaranteed to be priceless on a future episode of Antiques Roadshow
3 October 2016 Win £100 of maths goodies in our fiendish crossnumber
3 October 2016 Solve the puzzles that appeared in Issue 04.
3 October 2016 Pythagoras gave us so much more than a² + b² = c²
3 October 2016 Exploring the connection between maths and art.
3 October 2016 How to make mathematical crochet
3 October 2016 The definitive chart of chalk's greatest colours
3 October 2016 The geometry of psychedelic hallucinations
3 October 2016 Can you solve it?
3 October 2016 Warning: Contains SPOILERS!
3 October 2016 Sit in your favourite chair and do away with those tedious algebraic proofs
3 October 2016 Moonlighting agony uncle Prof. Dirichlet answers more of your personal problems
3 October 2016 Diego Carranza tells you to stop worrying and dimensionally analyse the bomb
3 October 2016 We chat to Andrea about crime, maths and her fluid career
2 October 2016 Tuesday 11 October, 7.15pm. Come along! Featuring hundreds of free copies of Chalkdust, free pizza, and the chance to purchase a Chalkdust T-shirt.
29 September 2016 A review of Timothy Revell's new book, describing the hidden mathematics behind our world
15 September 2016 If only the Earth were flat...
8 September 2016 Applying game theory to evolution
2 September 2016 What can a 100-year-old result in topology say about weather and computers?
25 August 2016 Donald Duck learns that there is “a lot more to mathematics than two-times-two”.
18 August 2016 Exploring the maths on offer at this year's UK hacker festival.
11 August 2016 How the queue size tells you when the next bus is coming
4 August 2016 Believe it or not: Mathematics and Theology can coexist
28 July 2016 Are you a winner?
21 July 2016 Looking for a neat description of this useful matrix part-inverse
17 July 2016 Were you a Choco Leibniz or a Fig Newton?
14 July 2016 Can you solve these puzzles about differentiation and integration?
7 July 2016 Difficulties in designing a voting system for referenda
30 June 2016 Using Markov chains to calculate some interesting tennis stats!
23 June 2016 Paper cups do not follow a hexagonal pattern and the cones do not meet at a single point, but they do make a gigantic sphere
19 June 2016 All the fun of our prize crossnumber, just smaller and without a prize
9 June 2016 Memory and maths in the modern world
2 June 2016 An easy equation to remember for your driving theory test, with dangerous consequences
26 May 2016 The discovery of gravitational waves offers a new way of looking at the universe. Who knows what we will discover?
19 May 2016 The Chalkdust team set you a challenge, for which the prize is a £25 Amazon voucher...
12 May 2016 Extending the million, billion, trillion system to much, much bigger numbers
5 May 2016 Maths and Decision Theory to be the best at playing Guess Who?
28 April 2016 When-to-add-milk confusion and other related matters
21 April 2016 The search for polydivisible numbers in different bases: how many can you find?
14 April 2016 This month's round up of mathematical blog posts.
7 April 2016 Here is the reason why the golden era of Twitter is gone
31 March 2016 Hyperbolic surfaces, Klein bottles and more
24 March 2016 Read ours then send us your favourites!
18 March 2016 How many did you get right?
17 March 2016 How many points could you have scored at our launch quiz?
13 March 2016 Warning: Contains SPOILERS!
13 March 2016 Make an amazing three faced hexagon
13 March 2016 Solving differential equations instantaneously, using some electrical components and an oscilloscope
13 March 2016 Vote for your favourite colour of chalk for Issue 04: is it white, yellow, or the Post Office Tower?
13 March 2016 More than spirals and rabbits, Fibonacci gave us something much more fundamental.
13 March 2016 The great contributions of the man who started popular mathematics
13 March 2016 Maths is a fickle world. Stay à la mode with our guide to the latest trends.
13 March 2016 Solve the puzzles that appeared in Issue 03.
13 March 2016 Print out and make a flexagon
13 March 2016 Ever been stuck in motorway traffic which seems to have no reason? A model for traffic flow explains why.
13 March 2016 Prof. Dirichlet tackles deaf colleagues and cold badgers.
13 March 2016 Be in for a chance to win a £100 goody bag if you can solve our fiendish crossnumber
13 March 2016 The story behind Issue 3's cover artwork
13 March 2016 Counting the divisors of an integer turns out to be a rather hard problem
13 March 2016 Find out what the future holds for you... or maybe just a box of scorpions.
13 March 2016 Why voting systems can never be fair
13 March 2016 Part 2 of our mathematical comic's adventure
13 March 2016 Are you a FX-82 or an FX-85 fan?
13 March 2016 Teaching a bunch of matchboxes how to play tic-tac-toe
13 March 2016 How can we differentiate a function 9¾ times?
13 March 2016 We speak to one of Britain's most successful popularisers of maths
13 March 2016 Fractional calculus, counting divisors, whether voting can ever be fair and much more
3 March 2016 Explaining how surface tension makes water form surprising shapes
25 February 2016 Your first peek at our Spring issue
18 February 2016 Additional roads do not imply faster travel times!
11 February 2016 Agony uncle Professor Dirichlet answers your personal problems this Valentine's Day.
11 February 2016 Make the perfect gift for your loved one
4 February 2016 How can we identify objects in photos, to diagnose cancer or predict the weather? Using gradients!
28 January 2016 Simple Statistics can help businesses make informed decisions
21 January 2016 Introducing polyominoes
19 January 2016 Amaze your friends with our top facts about the new largest known prime number
14 January 2016 Is there life on Mars? Or anywhere else?
7 January 2016 Exploring mental arithmetic tricks in T. Martin's 1842 guide, 'Pounds, shillings and pence'
31 December 2015 Have you read the best of the blog?
24 December 2015 Something for you to solve during the post-Christmas lull
17 December 2015 Agony uncle Professor Dirichlet answers your personal problems this Christmastime.
10 December 2015 Are you a winner?
3 December 2015 Making gingerbread Platonic solids, Fröbel stars and Christmas flexagons
26 November 2015 We have received loads of feedback from people telling us their favourite function
19 November 2015 Three ways to obtain and generalise a beautiful fractal
12 November 2015 Chalkdust visits popular maths' biggest conference
10 November 2015 (1925 - 2015)
5 November 2015 Explaining the tautological Twitter bot
1 November 2015 These solutions relate to puzzles found in Issue 02 of the magazine.
29 October 2015 Because we love functions!
22 October 2015 Where should you choose to take a conversion kick from?
15 October 2015 Some mathematical questions you might have wondered every time you look at one of those rainbows
9 October 2015 The joy of Jacobians, the perils of p-values, and a chat in the pub with Fields medallist Artur Avila
8 October 2015 What difference will an extra 10 balls make?
6 October 2015 Platonic shapes from tube maps, flexagons, and more mathematical craft
6 October 2015 Moonlighting agony uncle Professor Dirichlet answers your personal problems.
6 October 2015 It's time to reveal the Top Ten Symbols in Algebra!
6 October 2015 Exploring the legacy of John Nash (1928 – 2015)
6 October 2015 We tell you what's popular in the world of maths, so you can get ahead of the curve!
6 October 2015 Continue the journey of the Inverse Homotopy...
6 October 2015 Meet the Duckworth-Lewis method, 23, from Lancashire
6 October 2015 The maths behind Issue 02's cover
6 October 2015 Chatting with a Fields Medallist in a Leicester Square pub
6 October 2015 Win £100 in our famous original crossnumber
6 October 2015 These puzzles appeared in Issue 02 of the magazine.
6 October 2015 Robert Smith? tells us how his favourite matrix saves lives
