Issue 07 was released on 13 March 2018. Enjoy the articles online or scroll down to view the magazine as a PDF.
Features
Game, set, maths (no more tennis puns)
No more Katie Steckles.
Thinking outside outside the box
Rob Eastaway joins the dots.
Baking a Menger sponge sponge
Sam Hartburn bakes your favourite fractal
e to thee x
Zoe Griffiths on the life of e
Adventures in Chance-ylvania
High stakes gambling with Paula Rowińska
Counting palindromes
Alex Xela shows us the world of palindromic numbers, and calculates the chances of getting one
Routes: Edsger Dijkstra
In this edition of the series, we instead learn about 'routes' and Edsger Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm.
On the cover: Chladni figures of a square drum
Find out more about the patterns on the cover of Issue 07
Significant figures: Sir Christopher Zeeman
Biography of Sir Christopher Zeeman
Primes à la Euler
Infinitely many primes ending in 1, 3, 7 and 9 proved in typically Eulerian style.
Machine learning 101
Start your quest to conquer the planet with this introduction to the wonderful world of machine learning
Mike Jordan on machine learning
Undoubtedly the most influential voice on this hottest of hot topics.
Domino tiling & domineering
John Dore and Chris Woodcock join the dots
In conversation with Chris Budd
We chat to one of the UK's most qualified voices in mathematics communication
Fun
Dear Dirichlet, Issue 07
Pigs, popes and produce are among the topics of discussion in this issue's Dear Dirichlet advice column
Prize crossnumber, Issue 07
Win £100 of Maths Gear goodies by solving our famously fiendish crossnumber
Comic: The Inverse Homotopy, part 6
Part 6 of our mathematical comic's adventure
Top Ten: Mathematical celebration days
The definitive chart of the best dates
Conference bingo
Race to be the first to get five-in-a-row
How to make: a catastrophe machine
Make a catastrophe machine just like Zeeman's
Page 3 model: Frictional unemployment
Modelling unemployment using simple differential equations!
What’s hot and what’s not, issue 07
Fashion is fleeting, Chalkdust regulars are not.
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