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Articles by James Cann

James Cann
James Cann is a PhD student at UCL and is attached to the London School of Geometry & Number Theory. He likes maths best when explained with pictures.
All articles by James
  • On the cover: Chladni figures of a square drum

    On the cover: Chladni figures of a square drum

    12 March 2018
    Find out more about the patterns on the cover of Issue 07
  • You can count on Dirichlet

    You can count on Dirichlet

    13 March 2016
    Counting the divisors of an integer turns out to be a rather hard problem

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Chalkdust is published by Chalkdust Magazine, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom. ISSN 2059-3805 (Print). ISSN 2059-3813 (Online).