
Adam is an assistant professor at Durham University, where he investigates weird, non-Newtonian fluids. If he's not talking about the maths of chocolate fountains he is probably thinking about fonts, helping Professor Dirichlet answer your personal problems, and/or listening to BBC Radio 2.
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How big is the biggest cow?Chalkdust issue 11 puzzle hunt #5
Adam Townsend sets the fifth and final puzzle. Can you solve it?Review: Mathematical socks 2
More sartorial inquisition for your feetReview of The Maths Behind by Colin Beveridge
Should you ask Santa for 'Ice Col' Beveridge's encyclopedic tome this festive period?Review: Mathematical T-shirt
A summer essential or an embarrassment risk on the streets of Ibiza?How many quadratics factorise?
Write down a quadratic. What is the probability that it factorises? Paging Prof. Dirichet...Top 10 emoji for use in mathematics
We take a look at the top 10 emojis!Why self-service machines give such awful change
Unexpected item in bagging areAAAARGGGHH here's 90p change in penniesForget a new £1 coin, we need a £1.23 coin
Not the new coin we want, but the new coin we needIs MEDUSA the new BODMAS?
Why the infamous acronym needs revising.Review: Mathematical socks
Can you wear them and be taken mathematically seriously?Dear Dirichlet Christmas special
Agony uncle Professor Dirichlet answers your personal problems this Christmastime.Switching sides in a matrix equation
Looking for a neat description of this useful matrix part-inverseStopping distances in the Highway Code are wrong
An easy equation to remember for your driving theory test, with dangerous consequencesNames for large numbers
Extending the million, billion, trillion system to much, much bigger numbersFun with water bells
Explaining how surface tension makes water form surprising shapesVictorian maths tricks with old money
Exploring mental arithmetic tricks in T. Martin's 1842 guide, 'Pounds, shillings and pence'Weekend at MathsJam
Chalkdust visits popular maths' biggest conferenceIs there a perfect maths font?
Let's print your thesis in Comic Sans