Issue 04 was released on 4 October 2016. Enjoy the articles online or scroll down to view the magazine as a PDF.
Features
Problem solving 101
Never be stumped by a maths problem again, with this crash course from the ever-competent Stephen Muirhead
Hedy Lamarr: Hollywood star and secret inventor
James Grime gets intimate with 'the most beautiful woman in the world' from the golden age of Hollywood
The doodle theorem, and beyond…
Colin Wright juggles Euler, doodling and Millennium problems
Prime jewellery
Make your own treasures, guaranteed to be priceless on a future episode of Antiques Roadshow
Roots: Pythagoras of Samos
Pythagoras gave us so much more than a² + b² = c²
Mathematics: queen of the arts?
Exploring the connection between maths and art.
Proof by storytelling
Sit in your favourite chair and do away with those tedious algebraic proofs
The Buckingham π theorem and the atomic bomb
Diego Carranza tells you to stop worrying and dimensionally analyse the bomb
In conversation with Andrea Bertozzi
We chat to Andrea about crime, maths and her fluid career
Fun
Top ten vote issue 04
Vote for your favourite part of a circle
Where do you belong? (Mathematically speaking)
Follow our flowchart to find out where your true calling is
Comic: The Inverse Homotopy, part 3
Part 3 of our mathematical comic's adventure
What’s hot and what’s not, Issue 04
Don't be left behind... more mathematical fashion advice
Puzzles, Issue 04
Solve the puzzles that appeared in Issue 04.
How to make: mathematical crochet
How to make mathematical crochetTop Ten: Colours of chalk
The definitive chart of chalk's greatest colours
Page 3 model: Hallucinations
The geometry of psychedelic hallucinations
Prize crossnumber, Issue 04
Can you solve it?
Dear Dirichlet, Issue 04
Moonlighting agony uncle Prof. Dirichlet answers more of your personal problems
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