25 May 2022Squid Game, hidden harmonies and DnD coming your way in our brand new issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
25 May 2022Ellen talks to the mathematician and scientist about Attenborough, arctan and Antarctica
25 May 2022Win a £100 Maths Gear goody bag by solving our infamous puzzle
25 May 2022E Adrian Henle, Nick Gantzler, François-Xavier Coudert & Cory Simon team up for a deadly challenge
25 May 2022Weddings, holidays and catfish find their way into the prof's postbox this issue.
25 May 2022Goran Newsum always should be someone you really love
25 May 2022Poppy Azmi explores the patterns that are all around us
25 May 2022Can you solve it?
25 May 2022Mats Vermeeren sketches a simple proof of Noether's first theorem
25 May 2022Board yet? You will be.
25 May 2022Are you β? Are you γ?
25 May 2022Madeleine Hall looks at one of the minds behind GPS
25 May 2022The Chalkdust editors share some of their favourites
25 May 2022Chris Boucher explores the secrets and symmetries behind a measure of the distance between binary strings
25 May 2022We announce the winner of this coveted prize
25 May 2022The definitive chart of the best matrices
- 25 May 2022
Have your say
25 May 2022Fashion is fleeting, Chalkdust regulars are not.
25 May 2022Julia Schanen hates being mistaken for a genius.
25 May 2022Callum Ilkiw takes us through a Dungeons and Dragons dice dilemma
25 May 2022How Kelvin estimated the age of the Earth by thinking about a baked potato
25 May 2022Sophie Bleau uncovers the secrets behind covering maps
25 May 2022Lucy Rycroft-Smith and Darren Macey unpick the legacy of some of the most ubiquitous names in statistics
- 16 May 2022
Roll up, roll up! Squid Game, hidden harmonies and DnD coming your way in Issue 15. (Plus all the usual nonsense.)
- 12 May 2022
Did you solve it?
15 April 2022We review the seventh of this year’s nominees for the Book of the Year
14 April 2022We review the sixth of this year’s nominees for the Book of the Year
14 April 2022We review the fifth of this year’s nominees for the Book of the Year
13 April 2022We review the fourth of this year’s nominees for the Book of the Year
13 April 2022We review the third of this year’s nominees for the Book of the Year
12 April 2022We review the second of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
11 April 2022We review the first of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
- 31 March 2022
We announce the shortlist of our favourite maths-themed books of last year
- 31 March 2022
Have your say, and help to choose the 2021 Readers' Choice
22 November 2021Venn diagrams, retrograde chess, and behind-the-scenes Christmas lectures all feature in our autumn 2021 edition. Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
22 November 2021Donovan Young interferes in wave patterns
- 22 November 2021
Win a £100 Maths Gear goody bag by solving our infamous puzzle
22 November 2021Madeleine Hall takes a brief dive into the world’s favourite set-relationship-representation diagram.
- 22 November 2021
Football, telly and shape-shifting houses find their way into the prof's postbox this issue.
22 November 2021Forgotten how to draw a log graph? No need to panic – here's a handy guide!
22 November 2021Ellen Jolley learns how to run a maths outreach programme
- 22 November 2021
Can you solve it?
22 November 2021Michael Wendl dissects some variants of the magic separation, a self-working card trick.
22 November 2021How did your favourite sweater become so big? And how big can it get?
- 22 November 2021
The definitive chart of the best waves
22 November 2021Paddy provides a much anticipated update to the most important use of statistical analysis in the last two years
22 November 2021Dimitrios Roxanas tells us why playing chess backwards is the new black (and white).
22 November 2021Tanmay Kulkarni intentionally gets lost on the Tokyo subway
- 22 November 2021
Fashion is fleeting, Chalkdust regulars are not.
22 November 2021Kimi Chen deciphers the 1920s story you haven’t heard
22 November 2021Hollis Williams explores the power even simple models can have in describing the world around us.
- 22 November 2021
The Leibniz–Lagrange–Newton showdown we all want to see
- 22 November 2021
Have your say on the top ten matrices
- 15 November 2021
Enter stage left: Chalkdust issue 14. Preorder now!
- 4 November 2021
Did you solve it?
- 1 May 2021
Did you solve it?
1 May 2021Sus Mafia strategies, LMS president Ulrike Tillmann, and Bae's theorem ❤️ all feature in our spring 2021 edition. Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
1 May 2021Sophie Maclean and David Sheard speak to a very top(olog)ical mathematician!
1 May 2021Madeleine Hall explores the sometimes counterintuitive consequences of conditional probability to our everyday lives.
1 May 2021Sophie explores the fascinating mathematics behind the games Mafia and Among Us.
- 1 May 2021
Paddy Moore levels the score
- 1 May 2021
Issue 13 is here! Find out how to get involved with our mathematical art launch project
- 1 May 2021
We hear arguments for and against this controversial convention
1 May 2021Francisco Berkemeier takes a look at the mathematics behind elections, and the Electoral College, in the United States of America.
- 1 May 2021
Have your say
1 May 2021Discover the meaning of the coloured squares on the cover of issue 13
- 1 May 2021
Fashion is fleeting, Chalkdust regulars are not.
1 May 2021Are you binary? Roman numerals? The decimals? Find out by answering a maximum of ∞ easy questions
1 May 2021The story of an unforgettable mathematician.
- 1 May 2021
£100 of Maths Gear goodies to be won if you can solve it
- 1 May 2021
Parishoners, partners and puzzled playwrights have written in to the professor's postbox this issue
1 May 2021Johannes Huber explores the maths behind how image compression works.
1 May 2021Aryan Ghobadi gives a maths lecture at a zoo
1 May 2021How big is the biggest cow?
- 1 May 2021
The definitive chart of the best buttons
1 May 2021Looking for a challenge? Try our cryptic crossnumber—with hints and tips so anyone can have a go!
- 27 April 2021
A great start to the month of Maying
15 March 2021We announce the winner of this coveted prize
- 9 March 2021
Have your say, and help to choose the 2020 Readers' Choice
9 March 2021We review the seventh of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year, and open the vote for the readers' favourite
9 March 2021We review the sixth of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
4 March 2021We review the fifth of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
2 March 2021We review the fourth of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
1 March 2021We review the third of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
23 February 2021We review the second of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
22 February 2021We review the first of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
- 15 February 2021
We announce the shortlist
14 January 2021Łukasz takes us on a tour through a surprisingly diverse range of algorithms to test for divisibility by 7
2 January 2021We reveal the solutions to our Christmas puzzles!
26 December 2020Puzzle #3 in our 2020 Christmas puzzle series
25 December 2020Puzzle #2 in our 2020 Christmas puzzle series
24 December 2020Puzzle #1 in our 2020 Christmas puzzle series
11 December 2020Belgin gets hooked on a classic maths game...in 16 bits! Here's her review...
26 November 2020Try out these flo-maps for yourself: fractions speak louder than words
26 November 2020Hugh Duncan returns with the long-awaited prequel in which he further explores the geometric patterns hidden behind the fractions.
10 November 2020Now 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 autumn 2020 edition. Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
30 October 2020Ellen 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 2020Maynard manages to prove that 2≠1 in less space than it took Bertrand Russell to prove that 1+1=2
30 October 2020Florian Bouyer explains the beautiful geometry behind his mathematical colouring-in designs.
30 October 2020A handy tool that can make writing great tweets much easier
30 October 2020Who is behind the so-called Nobel prize of mathematics? Gerda Grase investigates.
30 October 2020Sam Hartburn attempts the impossible
30 October 2020Does maths need a Nobel prize?
30 October 2020Emilio McAllister Fognini explores the maths that made Turing so famous
- 30 October 2020
Fashion is fleeting, Chalkdust regulars are not.
30 October 2020Make your own scatterer from some old Christmas decorations
30 October 2020I love Markov is I love Markov chains love me.
- 30 October 2020
Scroggs debates whether sharing truly is caring
30 October 2020Solitons
- 30 October 2020
Have your say
30 October 2020Colin counts Countdown's contingent of conundrum causing calculations
30 October 2020James 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 2020Adam 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 2020Space-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 2020We 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 2020Are you a torus? A cone? Ed Spheran? Find out by answering a maximum of five easy questions
17 April 2020Kevin 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 2020Mara Kortenkamp, Erin Henning and Anna Maria Hartkopf give us a tour of Polytopia, a home for peculiar polytopes
17 April 2020I like my towns like I like my Alex: Bolton
17 April 2020Sam Hartburn orders wine by the barrel, but wonders if she's getting the most wine
17 April 2020Nobody 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 2020Some saucy modelling
17 April 2020Like Fibonacci, but weird. Robert J Low and Thierry Platini explain
- 17 April 2020
Make your own Ecki
17 April 2020David 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 2020Yuliya 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 2020Issah Merchant discusses the geometric principles behind, and real-world applications of, curvature
27 February 2020We announce the winner of this coveted prize
- 20 February 2020
Have your say, and help to choose the 2019 Readers' Choice
20 February 2020We review the ninth of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
19 February 2020We review the eighth of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
18 February 2020We review the sevnth of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
17 February 2020We review the sixth of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
16 February 2020We review the fifth of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
10 February 2020We review the fourth of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
6 February 2020We review the third of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
4 February 2020We review the second of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
3 February 2020We review the first of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
- 30 January 2020
We reveal the shortlist
10 December 201921 simple steps to draw your own Islamic pattern!
23 October 2019Computational 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 2019And 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 2019We chat to the crypto chief about inventing RSA... but not being able to tell anyone
23 October 2019Part 7 of our mathematical comic's adventure
23 October 2019Yiannis Petridis connects square roots and continued fractions
23 October 2019Pamela E Harris's story, as told by Talithia Williams
23 October 2019Carmen Cabrera Arnau explores the use of AI in composition
23 October 2019How do you like your numbers? Prime? Positive but infinitely small? Find out which famous mathematician you are
23 October 2019Angela Brett might not be standing on their shoulders
23 October 2019This 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 2019Fashion is fleeting, Chalkdust regulars are not.
- 23 October 2019
The definitive chart of the best issues of Chalkdust
23 October 2019You won't bee-lieve it
23 October 2019Paula Rowińska uses mathematics to answer some awkward questions
- 23 October 2019
Vote for your favourite picture of a scorpion
23 October 2019Andrei Chekmasov explores order and infinity
23 October 2019Tasty and mathematical
- 15 October 2019
Come along to our launch party for free pizza and the real quiz
1 October 2019A month celebrating the contributions of black mathematicians
- 27 September 2019
Did you solve it?
1 August 2019Hugh Duncan explores an exciting variation on Conway's Game of Life
6 June 2019We have a go at the puzzles in Daniel Griller’s new book
23 May 2019W.L. Feldhusen explains the obscure sine-finding trick hiding inside your calculator!
2 May 2019Tony Pisculli dissects the lyrics from a popular song
18 April 2019The scientific story behind the cover of Joy Division's treasured debut
4 April 2019A podcast for the mathematically curious
28 March 2019In 2018, scientists discovered a new shape that is essential to multicellular life
14 March 2019Ride 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 2019Stephen 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 2019Yuliya Nesterova misses all the pockets, but does manage to solve some cubics
14 March 2019Mystic mug has some predictions for you...
14 March 2019Axel Kerbec gets locked out while exchanging keys
- 14 March 2019
The definitive chart of the best Chalkdust regulars
14 March 2019Interviewing Matt was a mistake
14 March 2019Lucy Rycroft-Smith reflects on the use of this well-established measurement
14 March 2019Your guide to creating the optimal homepage
14 March 2019Find out more about the spiral trees on the cover of Issue 09
- 14 March 2019
Fashion is fleeting, Chalkdust regulars are not.
14 March 2019Are you u or i? Am I? Who?
14 March 2019An 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 2019Zoe Griffiths investigates paranormal quadratics
14 March 2019Using graph theory to predict who will sit the iron throne
14 March 2019Peter Rowlett uses combinatorics to generate caterpillars
14 March 2019How big are these random shapes? Submit an answer for a chance to win a prize!
8 March 2019Celebrate International Women's day by reading about rebel women in mathematics!
7 March 2019More 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 2019Did the Danish mathematician also sail the high seas?
- 14 February 2019
Did you solve it?
7 February 2019Tricks and puzzles that provide an introduction to the world of partitions
- 31 January 2019
A podcast for the mathematically curious
24 January 2019How can we teach people about the sieve in a way that helps them best understand prime numbers?
17 January 2019Investigating the power of thinking rationally
10 January 2019Looking back at puzzles about complex numbers, tic-tac-toe, and the Eggnog Mystery
2 January 2019Lies, liquor and logical deduction play their part in this festive holiday tale
18 December 2018Why do Christmas lights get tangled? And what's the perfect way to decorate a Christmas tree? Find the answers here.
14 December 2018Win this year's best book of geometry puzzles
11 December 2018Looking back at the exciting day that closed our 2018 celebrations
6 December 2018Win a DVD boxset from Festival of the spoken nerd in our first Christmas competition!
29 November 2018Mike Fletcher explores the optimal strategy for winning the popular television game show
22 November 2018Bring your shovel, and dig with us to unearth some amazing results about polynomials
- 16 November 2018
A podcast for the mathematically curious
15 November 2018Hugh Duncan explores polygons with a shortage of edges
8 November 2018What is pi? How do we define it and who first thought of it? We explore the history of this quintessential mathematical constant.
1 November 2018Introducing Mathscon, a mathematics conference with a difference!
30 October 2018John Pougué Biyong explains how and why science communication can lead to better diversity.
25 October 2018Reviewing the Royal Institution's first Black History Month event.
19 October 2018Surprise yourself by making this thing
18 October 2018Swing on a magnetic pendulum into our autumn 2018 issue. Topological tic-tac-toe, maths, cake, categories, plus all your favourite regulars.
18 October 2018Print it out and play against your friends!
18 October 2018We 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 2018Colin Beveridge looks at different designs for 2- and 3-dimensional tiles
18 October 2018Alex Bolton plays noughts and crosses on unusual surfaces
18 October 2018Read about Maxamillion Polignac's adventures in a prime-hating world
18 October 2018Adam Atkinson uses maths to try to help a sculptor
18 October 2018See what we're doing this October to promote and celebrate diversity in mathematics
18 October 2018Are you perfect or imaginary? Are you a square?
18 October 2018Find 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 2018Elizabeth A Williams falls off a log
- 18 October 2018
The definitive chart of the best units
18 October 2018Emma Bell explains why the Renaissance mathematician Gerolamo Cardano styled himself as the "man of discoveries".
18 October 2018Tired 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 2018Many mysteries about hair are now revealed with the ponytail shape equation
- 18 October 2018
Fashion is fleeting, Chalkdust regulars are not.
18 October 2018Just what is category theory? Tai-Danae Bradley explains
18 October 2018Biography of Katherine Johnson, NASA human computer and research mathematician
18 October 2018A tabletop demonstration of chaos.
11 October 2018Nira Chamberlain explains how Black Panther's suit can be modelled mathematically
9 October 2018Clive Fraser reflects on his interactions with one of the greatest ever Black mathematicians
9 October 2018This month’s round up of mathematical blog posts from all over the internet
4 October 2018We look back at last year's Black Mathematician Month, and give a preview of what to expect this October.
3 October 2018You'll never believe number 3!
- 27 September 2018
Join us at our upcoming launch party!
20 September 2018We explore the concept of emptiness in set theory, and explain how zero went from "nothing" to "something"
6 September 2018Introducing the work that has won mathematics' most famous award
30 August 2018Exploring the beauty of complex numbers, their origins and why they are important
23 August 2018How 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 2018Exploring non-random walks using fractions
28 June 2018A review of Vicky Neale's new book about the quest to understand prime numbers.
21 June 2018We analyse the maths and physics required to execute a good chip shot
14 June 2018Discover the mathematical equations that describe the most commonly observed trajectories in football
7 June 2018An unexpected way to beat the odds in this classic game
4 June 2018Defining what exactly an integral is leads naturally to an explanation of how to handle approximating them.
31 May 2018A selection of weird goings-on from the world of fluid mechanics
17 May 2018A thrilling review of this truly enlightening book
10 May 2018Blood is exceptionally complicated and its composition varies from person to person. So how do we begin to model it?
3 May 2018A mathematically-themed version of the classic card game, with several new features
26 April 2018A collection of our favourite and least favourite things named after Euler, from issue 07
19 April 2018Have 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 2018Or, how a simple problem can get very complicated, very quickly...
29 March 2018Let'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 2018No more Katie Steckles.
12 March 2018Rob 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 2018Sam Hartburn bakes your favourite fractal
12 March 2018Zoe Griffiths on the life of e
12 March 2018High stakes gambling with Paula Rowińska
- 12 March 2018
Part 6 of our mathematical comic's adventure
12 March 2018In this edition of the series, we instead learn about 'routes' and Edsger Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm.
12 March 2018Alex Xela shows us the world of palindromic numbers, and calculates the chances of getting one
12 March 2018Find out more about the patterns on the cover of Issue 07
- 12 March 2018
The definitive chart of the best dates
12 March 2018Biography of Sir Christopher Zeeman
12 March 2018Race to be the first to get five-in-a-row
12 March 2018Infinitely many primes ending in 1, 3, 7 and 9 proved in typically Eulerian style.
12 March 2018Vote for your favourite unit
- 12 March 2018
Make a catastrophe machine just like Zeeman's
12 March 2018Start your quest to conquer the planet with this introduction to the wonderful world of machine learning
12 March 2018Modelling unemployment using simple differential equations!
12 March 2018Undoubtedly the most influential voice on this hottest of hot topics.
12 March 2018John Dore and Chris Woodcock join the dots
12 March 2018We 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 2018You won't believe number 5!
1 March 2018What 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 2018Learn how to model your heart one beat at a time ❤️
8 February 2018Belgin plays a classic mathsy game from her childhood...in 16-bit graphics! Here's her review...
1 February 2018You can un-knot a knot, by cutting it not?
25 January 2018Why 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 2018A fiendish puzzle for you to 'pour' over...
11 January 2018Some summations seem strangely slippery...
4 January 2018Uniting the teaching of mathematics and music can benefit pupils greatly in both areas.
31 December 2017What have we been up to this year?
31 December 2017... and the winners
22 December 2017Can you solve four puzzles to reveal the hidden message?
21 December 2017Reviewing this week's conundrum prize... science-y stuff staring you in the face!
18 December 2017Try our nonograms! And remember, not all puzzles have a unique solution...
14 December 2017Christmas is coming, and Santa will soon begin his journey. We analyse the science and maths behind his trip.
11 December 2017Solve 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 2017Solve this and you could be the lucky winner of a Chalkdust T-shirt
30 November 2017As the festive season strikes again, we'll be dishing out more fiendish puzzles – this time with prizes!
23 November 2017Should you ask Santa for 'Ice Col' Beveridge's encyclopedic tome this festive period?
16 November 2017Chalkdust descends upon the UK's largest pop maths gathering and tells you what you missed
9 November 2017When you get tired of using your calculator for numbers, why not use it for words?
2 November 2017Maths has strong connections to art and music, but what about to both at the same time?
31 October 2017Reflecting on what we've learnt over the past few weeks.
27 October 2017The co-author of a recent paper on diversity in professional STEM societies talks about access to science.
26 October 2017Meet Talitha Washington, an activist, mathematician, and professor
25 October 2017Stories and lessons on diversity in mathematics from a globe-trotting number theorist.
24 October 2017We spoke with Jonathan Farley about his research and experiences as a black mathematician.
23 October 2017As 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 2017Win £100 of Maths Gear goodies by solving our famously fiendish crossnumber
18 October 2017We feel underdressed for Breakfast at Villani's
- 18 October 2017
Prof. Dirichlet tackles archaeology and supercomputers in answering your personal problems
18 October 2017Staring at your coffee, you wonder whether the light reflecting in cup really is a cardioid curve...
18 October 2017Robert J Low flips one upside down.
- 18 October 2017
Part 5 of our mathematical comic's adventure
18 October 2017We 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 2017A 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 2017Murder, 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 2017Euclidean Egg III makes the cover of issue 06!
18 October 2017Contemplate the beauty of the Julia and Mandelbrot sets and an elegant mathematical explanation of them
18 October 2017Modelling a Saturday afternoon on Oxford Street
- 18 October 2017
A great way to waste a lot of paper
18 October 201720 questions, the axiom of choice and colouring sequences.
17 October 2017How many did you spot?
16 October 2017Stories that illustrate the barriers that black mathematicians have faced in recent history.
13 October 2017Data scientist Jonny Brooks-Bartlett gives his views as part of Black Mathematician Month.
11 October 2017Meet Olubunmi Abidemi Fadipe-Joseph, an active promoter for women in mathematics from Nigeria
9 October 2017Nira Chamberlain, one of the UK's top 100 scientists, shares his experiences as a black mathematician.
6 October 2017Natalya Silcott introduces us to star polynomials!
4 October 2017Our first interview celebrating Black Mathematician Month
2 October 2017Promoting black mathematicians, and talking about building a more representative mathematical community.
2 October 2017Free launch party, 7.15pm. Come along!
28 September 2017A polygon with four and a half sides?!
21 September 2017While 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 2017Take a ball, divide it into parts, glue them back and get two identical copies of your ball!
7 September 2017A hideous equation that hides beautiful images, and much (much) more besides...
31 August 2017How processes used in image editing are related to mathematics!
24 August 2017We created hot ice from scratch, a solution that remains liquid even below its freezing point!
17 August 2017A quick look at how to get the most bang for your buck the next time you're in a bidding war
10 August 2017A summer essential or an embarrassment risk on the streets of Ibiza?
3 August 2017How to win a game when your expected score is 0
- 27 July 2017
Did you win?
20 July 2017Write 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 2017Human migration with mathematical models, data and a hands-on experiment!
6 July 2017Some interesting observations with the pigeonhole principle
29 June 2017Have a go at these puzzles, adequate for your holidays!
22 June 2017We take a look at the top 10 emojis!
15 June 2017Next time you are finished using a paper cup, create your own papercupter!
8 June 2017Read about our least favourite numbers in this collection from issue 5!
1 June 2017Discover the mysteries behind the most spectacular free-kick ever scored and how Newton can help us to simulate it.
25 May 2017Finding the best picture at the Leaning Tower of Pisa is all about the maths rather than the pose!
17 May 2017Each time you eat a croissant you might be biting more than 500 layers of dough!
11 May 2017We have a go at the puzzles in Daniel Griller's new book
4 May 2017We chat to Marcus about science communication, teaching mathematics in schools, and how to make group theory sound sexy.
27 April 2017Negative polygons and other mathematical creations
20 April 2017In the Aztec city of Atzlan, the scientist Remotep makes a revolutionary discovery
16 April 2017How optimising the space around a circular monument is related to supereggs
13 April 2017When you're caught in the rain without an umbrella... what is your best option?
6 April 2017Unexpected item in bagging areAAAARGGGHH here's 90p change in pennies
30 March 2017After 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 2017Not the new coin we want, but the new coin we need
23 March 2017How to make the most slices from just a few cuts of cake
6 March 2017Graphical linear algebra, slide rules and game theory in nature. Plus all your favourite fun pages in our spring 2017 issue.
6 March 2017We chat to the chief scientific advisor to the Home Office about the role of scientists and mathematicians in politics
6 March 2017Rediscover linear algebra by playing with circuit diagrams
6 March 2017Explain the strange dynamics of certain insects using game theory
6 March 2017Fermat's Last Theorem with complex powers, wrapped in a story every mathematician can relate to
6 March 2017When slide rules used to rule... find out why they still do
6 March 2017Factorisation is often used in cryptography. But there's something even simpler which turns out to be just as hard.
6 March 2017Folding origami, building networks, making projections and multiple dimensions!
6 March 2017What 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 2017Read 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 2017Solve the puzzles that appeared in Issue 05.
6 March 2017How to model bread making!
6 March 2017Are 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 2017How many did you spot?
23 February 2017Free launch party, 7.15pm. Come along! Free copies of Chalkdust, free pizza, and buy your own Chalkdust T-shirt.
16 February 2017What connects the products of twin primes with something you learnt in primary school and the number 8?
14 February 2017A tragic love story of shares and viral songs. To share, or not to share...
9 February 2017For those of you tackling this dilemma, here's your answer...
2 February 2017Some surprising mathematical facts
27 January 2017Here are some highlights of the first two years of Chalkdust!
- 26 January 2017
Are you a winner?
19 January 2017Lindsay Lohan is really good at L'Hôpital's rule.
12 January 2017Why the infamous acronym needs revising.
5 January 2017Can 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 2016It's the last day of the Chalkdust advent calendar, so there must be something very good behind today's door...
23 December 2016Behind today's door... a puzzle!
22 December 2016Behind today's door... A book review!
21 December 2016Behind today's door... More fascinating facts!
20 December 2016Behind today's door... Another carol!
19 December 2016Find your perfect partner with this wonderful tree diagram!
18 December 2016Behind today's door... A joke!
17 December 2016Agony uncle Professor Dirichlet answers your personal problems this Christmastime.
16 December 2016Behind today's door... A quiz!
15 December 2016This year's Chalkdust puzzle Christmas card
14 December 2016Santa's sack of scientific surprises
13 December 2016Behind today's door... a quiz!
12 December 2016Behind today's door... a puzzle!
11 December 2016This 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 2016Behind today's door... a good joke!
9 December 2016Behind today's door... A binary magic card trick!
8 December 2016Winter is coming!
7 December 2016Behind today's door... The Chalkdust guide to Christmas presents
- 6 December 2016
Behind today's door... a puzzle!
5 December 2016And on the fifth day, some rather Algebraic Golden Rings:
4 December 2016Behind today's door... a mathematical Christmas Carol
3 December 2016Santa's sack of scientific surprises
- 2 December 2016
Behind the second door of the advent calendar, there is a puzzle
1 December 2016Get into the ChristMATHS spirit with the maths behind the popular Christmas carol!
24 November 2016How crime science, and the maths it uses, is helping the police fight crime
17 November 2016Here we have collected our favourite sets, from the Mandelbrot set to the Mahut-Isner set!
10 November 2016Using modern technology to understand geometry
3 November 2016The algebra will set your heart aflutter.
27 October 2016Constructing a spiderweb: in the spookiest and most horrific way possible!
20 October 2016The Great Fire of London, a little-known polymath and a Monument...
13 October 2016A blast from the past. Modelling battle grounds from ancient Greece.
- 4 October 2016
Vote for your favourite part of a circle
3 October 2016Problem solving 101, proof by storytelling, plus the return of all your favourite fun pages in our autumn 2016 edition.
3 October 2016Never be stumped by a maths problem again, with this crash course from the ever-competent Stephen Muirhead
3 October 2016Follow our flowchart to find out where your true calling is
- 3 October 2016
Part 3 of our mathematical comic's adventure
3 October 2016James Grime gets intimate with 'the most beautiful woman in the world' from the golden age of Hollywood
3 October 2016Colin Wright juggles Euler, doodling and Millennium problems
- 3 October 2016
Don't be left behind... more mathematical fashion advice
3 October 2016Make 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 2016Pythagoras gave us so much more than a² + b² = c²
3 October 2016Exploring 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 2016The geometry of psychedelic hallucinations
- 3 October 2016
Can you solve it?
- 3 October 2016
Warning: Contains SPOILERS!
3 October 2016Sit 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 2016Diego Carranza tells you to stop worrying and dimensionally analyse the bomb
3 October 2016We 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 2016A review of Timothy Revell's new book, describing the hidden mathematics behind our world
15 September 2016If only the Earth were flat...
8 September 2016Applying game theory to evolution
2 September 2016What can a 100-year-old result in topology say about weather and computers?
25 August 2016Donald Duck learns that there is “a lot more to mathematics than two-times-two”.
18 August 2016Exploring the maths on offer at this year's UK hacker festival.
11 August 2016How the queue size tells you when the next bus is coming
4 August 2016Believe it or not: Mathematics and Theology can coexist
- 28 July 2016
Are you a winner?
21 July 2016Looking for a neat description of this useful matrix part-inverse
17 July 2016Were you a Choco Leibniz or a Fig Newton?
- 14 July 2016
Can you solve these puzzles about differentiation and integration?
7 July 2016Difficulties in designing a voting system for referenda
30 June 2016Using Markov chains to calculate some interesting tennis stats!
