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Review of Problem Solving in GCSE Mathematics
How do calculators do trigonometry?
Counting all the numbers between zero and one
Unknown pleasures: pulsars and the first data revolution
The scutoid: a geometric building block of life
Review: Power in numbers -- the rebel women of mathematics
Review: Mathematical socks 2
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Issue 09
In conversation with Matt Parker
Playing billiards with cue-bics
When Truchet met Chladni
The phantom parabola
Counting caterpillars
Hiding in plain sight
Striking the right chord
On the cover: Harriss spiral
Oπnions: Can a horse have an Erdős number?
Bells, braids and taxicabs
Issue 08
In conversation with Eugenia Cheng
The magnetic pendulum
Somewhere over the critical line
An invitation to category theory
Significant figures: Katherine Johnson
What is the point of intersection?
Hilbert's hotel: the board game
Mathematics and art: the ELHP
Topological tic-tac-toe
Too good to be Truchet
Roots: Gerolamo Cardano
On the cover: Hydrogen orbitals
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The scutoid: a geometric building block of life
28 March 2019
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