Computational proofs, AI music and embarrassing surveys feature in our latest edition. Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
Can you solve it?
Letter writing, hospital visits, and getting the family active are among the topics of discussion in this issue's Dear Dirichlet advice column
How do you like your numbers? Prime? Positive but infinitely small? Find out which famous mathematician you are
Fashion is fleeting, Chalkdust regulars are not.
The definitive chart of the best issues of Chalkdust
Vote for your favourite picture of a scorpion
Tasty and mathematical
Come along to our launch party for free pizza and the real quiz
A podcast for the mathematically curious
Ride a phantom parabola into our latest issue. Billiards, maths, tiles, mistakes, plus all your favourite regulars.
Coffee, Brexit and badgers are among the topics of discussion in this issue's Dear Dirichlet advice column
Mystic mug has some predictions for you...
The definitive chart of the best Chalkdust regulars
Your guide to creating the optimal homepage
Fashion is fleeting, Chalkdust regulars are not.
Are you u or i? Am I? Who?
Vote for your favourite Chalkdust issue
Read the magazine, and come to the launch party!
A podcast for the mathematically curious
A podcast for the mathematically curious
Looking back at puzzles about complex numbers, tic-tac-toe, and the Eggnog Mystery
Win this year's best book of geometry puzzles
Win a DVD boxset from Festival of the spoken nerd in our first Christmas competition!
A podcast for the mathematically curious
Surprise yourself by making this thing
Swing on a magnetic pendulum into our latest issue. Topological tic-tac-toe, maths, cake, categories, plus all your favourite regulars.
Win £100 of Maths Gear goodies by solving our famously fiendish crossnumber
See what we're doing this October to promote and celebrate diversity in mathematics
Are you perfect or imaginary? Are you a square?
Village fetes, Brexit and flowers are among the topics of discussion in this issue's Dear Dirichlet advice column
The definitive chart of the best units
Vote for your favourite Chalkdust regular
Fashion is fleeting, Chalkdust regulars are not.
You'll never believe number 3!
Join us at our upcoming launch party!
A collection of our favourite and least favourite things named after Euler, from issue 07
Think outside outside the box in our latest issue. No more tennis puns, primes mod 4, plus all your favourite regulars.
Pigs, popes and produce are among the topics of discussion in this issue's Dear Dirichlet advice column
Win £100 of Maths Gear goodies by solving our famously fiendish crossnumber
The definitive chart of the best dates
Race to be the first to get five-in-a-row
Vote for your favourite unit
Make a catastrophe machine just like Zeeman's
Fashion is fleeting, Chalkdust regulars are not.
You won't believe number 5!
Join us at our upcoming launch party!
A fiendish puzzle for you to 'pour' over...
What have we been up to this year?
As the festive season strikes again, we'll be dishing out more fiendish puzzles – this time with prizes!
Cardioids in coffee cups, counting with three fingers, and breakfast at Villani's.Plus the return of all your favourite fun pages.
Win £100 of Maths Gear goodies by solving our famously fiendish crossnumber
Prof. Dirichlet tackles archaeology and supercomputers in answering your personal problems
"R" you a Matlab or a Python? Fortran or Mathematica? Find out which package suits you best.
The definitive chart of the best tools
Mathematical fashion advice for an ever-changing world
Vote for your favourite mathematical celebration day
A great way to waste a lot of paper
How many did you spot?
Free launch party, 7.15pm. Come along!
Have a go at these puzzles, adequate for your holidays!
Read about our least favourite numbers in this collection from issue 5!
New issue out now! Graphical linear algebra, slide rules and game theory in nature. Plus all your favourite fun pages.
Win £100 of Maths Gear goodies by solving our famously fiendish crossnumber
Mathematical fashion advice for an ever-changing world
Prof. Dirichlet tackles political arguments and werewolves in answering your personal problems
Solve the puzzles that appeared in Issue 05.
How to model bread making!
Are you feeling ideal? In your prime? Discover your inner mathematical object (plus handy term explainer).
Make calculations easy with this simple-to-make slide rule
The definitive chart of the circle's greatest parts
Vote for your favourite geometry instrument
The answers to the puzzles that appeared in issue 05
Free launch party, 7.15pm. Come along! Free copies of Chalkdust, free pizza, and buy your own Chalkdust T-shirt.
Here are some highlights of the first two years of Chalkdust!
It's the last day of the Chalkdust advent calendar, so there must be something very good behind today's door...
Here we have collected our favourite sets, from the Mandelbrot set to the Mahut-Isner set!
Vote for your favourite part of a circle
Our sparkly new edition, out now! Problem solving 101, proof by storytelling, plus the return of all your favourite fun pages.
Follow our flowchart to find out where your true calling is
Don't be left behind... more mathematical fashion advice
Win £100 of maths goodies in our fiendish crossnumber
Solve the puzzles that appeared in Issue 04.
How to make mathematical crochet
The definitive chart of chalk's greatest colours
The geometry of psychedelic hallucinations
Can you solve it?
Moonlighting agony uncle Prof. Dirichlet answers more of your personal problems
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.
Paper cups do not follow a hexagonal pattern and the cones do not meet at a single point, but they do make a gigantic sphere
The Chalkdust team set you a challenge, for which the prize is a £25 Amazon voucher...
Read ours then send us your favourites!
Warning: Contains SPOILERS!
Make an amazing three faced hexagon
Vote for your favourite colour of chalk for Issue 04: is it white, yellow, or the Post Office Tower?
Maths is a fickle world. Stay à la mode with our guide to the latest trends.
Solve the puzzles that appeared in Issue 03.
Print out and make a flexagon
Ever been stuck in motorway traffic which seems to have no reason? A model for traffic flow explains why.
Prof. Dirichlet tackles deaf colleagues and cold badgers.
Be in for a chance to win a £100 goody bag if you can solve our fiendish crossnumber
Find out what the future holds for you... or maybe just a box of scorpions.
Are you a FX-82 or an FX-85 fan?
Fractional calculus, counting divisors, whether voting can ever be fair and much more
Your first peek at our Spring issue
Agony uncle Professor Dirichlet answers your personal problems this Valentine's Day.
Make the perfect gift for your loved one
Have you read the best of the blog?
Agony uncle Professor Dirichlet answers your personal problems this Christmastime.
(1925 - 2015)
Because we love functions!
The joy of Jacobians, the perils of p-values, and a chat in the pub with Fields medallist Artur Avila
Moonlighting agony uncle Professor Dirichlet answers your personal problems.
It's time to reveal the Top Ten Symbols in Algebra!
We tell you what's popular in the world of maths, so you can get ahead of the curve!
Meet the Duckworth-Lewis method, 23, from Lancashire
Win £100 in our famous original crossnumber
Find out what's going to be inside
These puzzles appeared in the Chalkdust newsletters. You can find the answers here and sign up for the newsletter here.
These are the answers to puzzles that appeared in the Chalkdust newsletters. You can find the puzzles here and sign up for the newsletter here.
Are you a winner?
These puzzles appeared in Issue 01 of the magazine.
Favourite numbers for many are linked to birthdays or anniversaries, but here is our take on the question
The perfect game of Pac-Man, the maths of wormholes, and Anna talking at Hannah Fry
Every issue we feature another great model on page 3 of our magazine. This time we look at what to do when zombies attack.
Moonlighting agony uncle Professor Dirichlet answers our readers' personal problems.
Be the envy of your friends with our guide to what's hot in maths right now
The undisputed Top Ten Mathematicians' Haircuts!
Our original £100 prize crossnumber. Download and enjoy!
These solutions relate to puzzles found in Issue 01 of the magazine.
