12 March 2025Pre-order your copy of issue 21 now!
26 February 2025We review the seventh and last of this year’s nominees for Book of the Year
26 February 2025We review the sixth of this year’s nominees for Book of the Year
25 February 2025We review the fifth of this year’s nominees for Book of the Year
24 February 2025We review the fourth of this year’s nominees for Book of the Year
20 February 2025We review the third of this year’s nominees for Book of the Year
19 February 2025We review the second of this year’s nominees for Book of the Year
18 February 2025We review the first of this year’s nominees for Book of the Year
13 February 2025We announce the shortlist of our favourite maths-themed books of last year
8 November 2024Spirographs, complex triangles and a lot of ants feature in our AW24 issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
8 November 2024Ashleigh Wilcox and Ellen Jolley chat to the professor and maths communicator about books, the Open University and music
8 November 2024Can you solve it?
8 November 2024Molly Ireland presents a gambit which will impress your mates
8 November 2024Stranded in Scotland's capital? This guide will keep you busy
8 November 2024Joe Celko makes a database from card and knitting needles
8 November 2024Cricket, coursework and karaoke are among the problems solved in this issue's Dear Dirichlet agony aunt column
8 November 2024Ashleigh Wilcox, Jenny Power and Rachel Evans show you how to draw pretty pictures
8 November 2024Can you solve it?
8 November 202490 years later, we're still unable to prove this surprisingly simple statement
8 November 2024The undisputed top ten top tens this season
8 November 2024Find out by using our simple flowchart
8 November 2024It doesn’t add up for Patrick Creagh
8 November 2024Fashion fiend of fashion flop? Take our quiz to find out
8 November 2024Fashion is fleeting, Chalkdust regulars are not.
8 November 2024How much barrel is left to scrape?
8 November 2024Aimen Khan ponders how patterns break down
8 November 2024Tyler Helmuth has lost his ant-vocado
8 November 2024Clem Padin calculates π, but not as we know it
8 November 2024Sophie Bleau explores the differential on Morseback.
- 1 November 2024
Pre-order your copy of our 9½-year anniversary issue now!
- 28 October 2024
Did you solve it?
27 May 2024Calling all final-year students!
20 May 2024Drinks orders, integer mysteries and the new LMS president feature in our SS24 issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
20 May 2024Bethany Clarke and Enric Solé-Farré chat to the professor and new president of the London Mathematical Society about academia, access and awards
- 20 May 2024
Game shows, flight and social media bots are among the problems solved in this issue's Dear Dirichlet agony aunt column
20 May 2024Ashleigh Wilcox looks for integer solutions to the Markov equation
- 20 May 2024
Can you solve it?
20 May 2024Find out by following our simple flowchart
20 May 2024Nora Koparan tells the story of the first female professor of mathematics
20 May 2024Can you solve it?
20 May 2024Thankfully not by Torquil Farquhar de Smith
- 20 May 2024
The undisputed chart of the best mathematical norms this season
20 May 2024Donovan Young goes round the bend exploring what happens when the loop-the-loop goes wrong
20 May 2024We ask someone who doesn't work as a mathematician to rule on unsolved conjectures
20 May 2024We announce the winners of this coveted prize
- 20 May 2024
Fashion is fleeting, Chalkdust regulars are not.
20 May 2024Simone Ramello explores the hic sunt leones of the friendliest numbers we know...
20 May 2024We talk to three teachers, working in different countries
20 May 2024Ricky Li explores the past and future of the soliton
- 20 May 2024
QED or $\square$?
20 May 2024Henry Jaspars tries to untangle a mixed-up drinks order
20 May 2024Steven Lockwood finds polygonal numbers hidden in a spreading fire
20 May 2024Sven Bjarke Gudnason and Calum Ross introduce you to the wonderful world of skyrmions
- 9 May 2024
Pre-order your copy now!
29 March 2024We review the ninth of this year's nominees for Book of the Year
29 March 2024We review the eighth of this year's nominees for Book of the Year
21 March 2024We review the seventh of this year's nominees for Book of the Year
19 March 2024We review the sixth of this year's nominees for Book of the Year
14 March 2024We review the fifth of this year's nominees for Book of the Year
12 March 2024We review the fourth of this year's nominees for Book of the Year
11 March 2024We review the third of this year's nominees for Book of the Year
5 March 2024We review the second of this year's nominees for Book of the Year
29 February 2024We review the first of this year's nominees for Book of the Year
- 27 February 2024
We announce the shortlist of our favourite maths-themed books of last year
6 December 2023Twitch streaming, abacuses and Pascal's secrets feature in our AW23 issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
6 December 2023Bethany Clarke and Ellen Jolley talk research, raids, and rugby with the Twitch streamer
- 6 December 2023
Can you solve it?
6 December 2023Today's weather: seasonal, highs of π/18.
6 December 2023Madeleine Hall is a Dedekind-ed follower of fashion
6 December 2023And more importantly, are you on the A-level formula sheet?
6 December 2023Connie Bambridge-Sutton invites you to make a flexible 3D shape
6 December 2023Joe Celko looks at four different abacuses used throughout history
- 6 December 2023
Can you solve it?
- 6 December 2023
Chalkdust HQ has been infiltrated by a secret non-mathematician
6 December 2023Leszek Wierzchleyski investigates how mathematicians can help surgeons
6 December 2023Paddy MacMahon calculates tangents and turning points without calculus
- 6 December 2023
The undisputed chart of the best mathematical games this season
6 December 2023Thomas Sperling discusses some furry Fermi problems
- 6 December 2023
Can you solve it?
- 6 December 2023
Phone assistants, duplicating pastries, and being a 10 anywhere else are among the topics of discussion in this issue's Dear Dirichlet advice column
6 December 2023Looking for a new character? Why not pick one of these?
- 6 December 2023
Fashion is fleeting, Chalkdust regulars are not.
- 6 December 2023
Fruit... it's obviously fruit.
6 December 2023We talk to three engineers working in different jobs across industry and academia
6 December 2023Alvin Choy works out who will be the last one left in
6 December 2023Madi Hammond shows us how physicists are predicting the fundamental particles of the universe.
6 December 2023James Christian and George Jensen zoom in, out, in, out, and tell us what it's really all about
6 December 2023Graeme Foster asks if there are more odd or even numbers in the triangle
- 23 November 2023
Did you solve it?
22 May 2023Penguins, prison and PDE patterns feature in our Spring 2023 issue. Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
22 May 2023We find out more about the charity's work to support maths education in prisons.
- 22 May 2023
Canines, Cliff Richard and conditioning find their way into the prof's postbox this issue.
22 May 2023Sophie Bleau chops up, unravels, and squeezes the torus into shape
- 22 May 2023
Can you solve it?
22 May 2023Sam Harris looks at how Pingu and his friends can stay cosy
22 May 2023Just answer these EIGHT simple questions!
22 May 2023Max Hughes investigates how channelling your inner Pythagorean may help you to become the next big lifestyle influencer
22 May 2023The best and worst from this year's Met Gala
22 May 2023Ben Walker, Adam Townsend & Andrew Krause invite you to play with their fun online PDE visualiser
22 May 2023Fashion is fleeting, Chalkdust regulars are not.
22 May 2023Henry Jaspars really likes Nick and Norah’s infinite playlist.
- 22 May 2023
The definitive chart of the best monties
22 May 2023We talk to four statisticians working in different jobs across industry and academia
22 May 2023That is the question
22 May 2023We announce the winners of this coveted prize
- 22 May 2023
Have your say
- 22 May 2023
Can you solve it?
22 May 2023Are you a theorem? Are you an axiom?
22 May 2023Eleanor Doman and Qi Zhou swap percentages for placenta-ges
22 May 2023Colin Wright remembers the puzzle giant with a passion for sharing
- 22 May 2023
And who's responsible for my minus sign errors?
22 May 2023(after Sonnet 130)
- 14 May 2023
Pre-order a copy and/or book your ticket for our launch event
- 4 May 2023
Did you solve it?
30 March 2023We review the eighth (and last) of this year’s nominees for the Book of the Year
30 March 2023We review the seventh of this year’s nominees for the Book of the Year
28 March 2023We review the sixth of this year’s nominees for the Book of the Year
27 March 2023We review the fifth of this year’s nominees for the Book of the Year
23 March 2023We review the fourth of this year’s nominees for the Book of the Year
22 March 2023We review the third of this year’s nominees for the Book of the Year
21 March 2023We review the second of this year’s nominees for the Book of the Year
20 March 2023We review the first of this year’s nominees for the Book of the Year
- 22 February 2023
We announce the shortlist of our favourite maths-themed books of last year
1 December 2022A tribute to alumni Roly Drower by Hugh Duncan
16 November 2022Celebrate the latest issue with us in London on 28 November
9 November 2022Fields medals, iconic intersections, and things with silly names coming your way in our autumn 2022 issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
9 November 2022Find out by answering six simple questions
9 November 2022We talk to the Fields medallist about his life, his work and his advice to his younger self.
9 November 2022Peach Semolina admits her true feelings about science fiction, and delves into the maths of quantum teleportation.
- 9 November 2022
Can you solve it?
9 November 2022Colin Beveridge barges in and admires some curious railway bridges
9 November 2022Follow these simple steps to frustrate anyone who ever dreamed of using their light saber on the USS Enterprise
9 November 2022Albert Wood returns to introduce the work that has won mathematics’ most famous award this year.
9 November 2022Peter Rowlett is gonna need a bigger board
9 November 2022Michael Wendl really wants those spammers to stop calling him
9 November 2022Nik Alexandrakis explains what they are and what they can tell us
- 9 November 2022
Which do you prefer?
- 9 November 2022
Have your say
- 9 November 2022
Can you solve it?
- 9 November 2022
The definitive chart of the best matrices
- 9 November 2022
Fashion is fleeting, Chalkdust regulars are not.
9 November 2022Why don't they?
9 November 2022Katie Steckles doesn't understand why any mathematical phenomenon would ever have a not-silly name
- 9 November 2022
Girl guides, cooking, and public transport find their way into the prof's postbox this issue.
- 9 November 2022
Trippy brain massages from Sam Palmer's artwork on the front of Issue 16
9 November 2022We talk to four mathematicians at different stages of their careers
9 November 2022Donovan Young looks at the shapes made when two cones collide
- 8 November 2022
Did you solve it?
- 7 November 2022
Hear ye! Hear ye! Chalkdust Magazine issue 16 is launching, full of mathematical joy and curiosity.
25 May 2022Squid Game, hidden harmonies and DnD coming your way in our brand new issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
25 May 2022Ellen talks to the mathematician and scientist about Attenborough, arctan and Antarctica
- 25 May 2022
Win a £100 Maths Gear goody bag by solving our infamous puzzle
25 May 2022E Adrian Henle, Nick Gantzler, François-Xavier Coudert & Cory Simon team up for a deadly challenge
- 25 May 2022
Weddings, holidays and catfish find their way into the prof's postbox this issue.
25 May 2022Goran Newsum always should be someone you really love
25 May 2022Poppy Azmi explores the patterns that are all around us
- 25 May 2022
Can you solve it?
25 May 2022Mats Vermeeren sketches a simple proof of Noether's first theorem
- 25 May 2022
Board yet? You will be.
25 May 2022Are you β? Are you γ?
25 May 2022Madeleine Hall looks at one of the minds behind GPS
25 May 2022The Chalkdust editors share some of their favourites
25 May 2022Chris Boucher explores the secrets and symmetries behind a measure of the distance between binary strings
25 May 2022We announce the winner of this coveted prize
- 25 May 2022
The definitive chart of the best matrices
- 25 May 2022
Have your say
- 25 May 2022
Fashion is fleeting, Chalkdust regulars are not.
25 May 2022Julia Schanen hates being mistaken for a genius.
25 May 2022Callum Ilkiw takes us through a Dungeons and Dragons dice dilemma
25 May 2022How Kelvin estimated the age of the Earth by thinking about a baked potato
25 May 2022Sophie Bleau uncovers the secrets behind covering maps
25 May 2022Lucy Rycroft-Smith and Darren Macey unpick the legacy of some of the most ubiquitous names in statistics
- 16 May 2022
Roll up, roll up! Squid Game, hidden harmonies and DnD coming your way in Issue 15. (Plus all the usual nonsense.)
- 12 May 2022
Did you solve it?
15 April 2022We review the seventh of this year’s nominees for the Book of the Year
14 April 2022We review the sixth of this year’s nominees for the Book of the Year
14 April 2022We review the fifth of this year’s nominees for the Book of the Year
13 April 2022We review the fourth of this year’s nominees for the Book of the Year
13 April 2022We review the third of this year’s nominees for the Book of the Year
12 April 2022We review the second of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
11 April 2022We review the first of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
- 31 March 2022
We announce the shortlist of our favourite maths-themed books of last year
- 31 March 2022
Have your say, and help to choose the 2021 Readers' Choice
22 November 2021Venn diagrams, retrograde chess, and behind-the-scenes Christmas lectures all feature in our autumn 2021 edition. Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
22 November 2021Donovan Young interferes in wave patterns
- 22 November 2021
Win a £100 Maths Gear goody bag by solving our infamous puzzle
22 November 2021Madeleine Hall takes a brief dive into the world’s favourite set-relationship-representation diagram.
- 22 November 2021
Football, telly and shape-shifting houses find their way into the prof's postbox this issue.
22 November 2021Forgotten how to draw a log graph? No need to panic – here's a handy guide!
22 November 2021Ellen Jolley learns how to run a maths outreach programme
- 22 November 2021
Can you solve it?
22 November 2021Michael Wendl dissects some variants of the magic separation, a self-working card trick.
22 November 2021How did your favourite sweater become so big? And how big can it get?
- 22 November 2021
The definitive chart of the best waves
22 November 2021Paddy provides a much anticipated update to the most important use of statistical analysis in the last two years
22 November 2021Dimitrios Roxanas tells us why playing chess backwards is the new black (and white).
22 November 2021Tanmay Kulkarni intentionally gets lost on the Tokyo subway
- 22 November 2021
Fashion is fleeting, Chalkdust regulars are not.
22 November 2021Kimi Chen deciphers the 1920s story you haven’t heard
22 November 2021Hollis Williams explores the power even simple models can have in describing the world around us.
- 22 November 2021
The Leibniz–Lagrange–Newton showdown we all want to see
- 22 November 2021
Have your say on the top ten matrices
- 15 November 2021
Enter stage left: Chalkdust issue 14. Preorder now!
- 4 November 2021
Did you solve it?
- 1 May 2021
Did you solve it?
1 May 2021Sus Mafia strategies, LMS president Ulrike Tillmann, and Bae's theorem ❤️ all feature in our spring 2021 edition. Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
1 May 2021Sophie Maclean and David Sheard speak to a very top(olog)ical mathematician!
1 May 2021Madeleine Hall explores the sometimes counterintuitive consequences of conditional probability to our everyday lives.
1 May 2021Sophie explores the fascinating mathematics behind the games Mafia and Among Us.
- 1 May 2021
Paddy Moore levels the score
- 1 May 2021
Issue 13 is here! Find out how to get involved with our mathematical art launch project
- 1 May 2021
We hear arguments for and against this controversial convention
1 May 2021Francisco Berkemeier takes a look at the mathematics behind elections, and the Electoral College, in the United States of America.
- 1 May 2021
Have your say
1 May 2021Discover the meaning of the coloured squares on the cover of issue 13
- 1 May 2021
Fashion is fleeting, Chalkdust regulars are not.
1 May 2021Are you binary? Roman numerals? The decimals? Find out by answering a maximum of ∞ easy questions
1 May 2021The story of an unforgettable mathematician.
- 1 May 2021
£100 of Maths Gear goodies to be won if you can solve it
- 1 May 2021
Parishoners, partners and puzzled playwrights have written in to the professor's postbox this issue
1 May 2021Johannes Huber explores the maths behind how image compression works.
1 May 2021Aryan Ghobadi gives a maths lecture at a zoo
1 May 2021How big is the biggest cow?
- 1 May 2021
The definitive chart of the best buttons
- 1 May 2021
Looking for a challenge? Try our cryptic crossnumber—with hints and tips so anyone can have a go!
- 27 April 2021
A great start to the month of Maying
15 March 2021We announce the winner of this coveted prize
- 9 March 2021
Have your say, and help to choose the 2020 Readers' Choice
9 March 2021We review the seventh of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year, and open the vote for the readers' favourite
9 March 2021We review the sixth of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
4 March 2021We review the fifth of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
2 March 2021We review the fourth of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
1 March 2021We review the third of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
23 February 2021We review the second of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
22 February 2021We review the first of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
- 15 February 2021
We announce the shortlist
14 January 2021Łukasz takes us on a tour through a surprisingly diverse range of algorithms to test for divisibility by 7
2 January 2021We reveal the solutions to our Christmas puzzles!
26 December 2020Puzzle #3 in our 2020 Christmas puzzle series
25 December 2020Puzzle #2 in our 2020 Christmas puzzle series
24 December 2020Puzzle #1 in our 2020 Christmas puzzle series
11 December 2020Belgin gets hooked on a classic maths game...in 16 bits! Here's her review...
- 26 November 2020
Try out these flo-maps for yourself: fractions speak louder than words
26 November 2020Hugh Duncan returns with the long-awaited prequel in which he further explores the geometric patterns hidden behind the fractions.
10 November 2020Now available to catch up on YouTube
- 30 October 2020
Independent Sage's Christina Pagel, hyperbolic mindfulness and make-your-own Markov tweet feature in our autumn 2020 edition. Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
30 October 2020Ellen Jolley asks for (independent) Sage advice
- 30 October 2020
Books, business and barns are the topics readers have sent in to the professor's postbox this issue
- 30 October 2020
£100 of MathsGear goodies to be won if you can solve it
30 October 2020Maynard manages to prove that 2≠1 in less space than it took Bertrand Russell to prove that 1+1=2
30 October 2020Florian Bouyer explains the beautiful geometry behind his mathematical colouring-in designs.
30 October 2020A handy tool that can make writing great tweets much easier
30 October 2020Who is behind the so-called Nobel prize of mathematics? Gerda Grase investigates.
30 October 2020Sam Hartburn attempts the impossible
30 October 2020Does maths need a Nobel prize?
30 October 2020Emilio McAllister Fognini explores the maths that made Turing so famous
- 30 October 2020
Fashion is fleeting, Chalkdust regulars are not.
- 30 October 2020
Make your own scatterer from some old Christmas decorations
30 October 2020I love Markov is I love Markov chains love me.
- 30 October 2020
Scroggs debates whether sharing truly is caring
30 October 2020Solitons
- 30 October 2020
Have your say
30 October 2020Colin counts Countdown's contingent of conundrum causing calculations
30 October 2020James M Christian reflects on chaos
- 30 October 2020
The definitive chart of the best day trips
- 1 October 2020
Did you solve it?
17 April 2020Adam Townsend sets the fifth and final puzzle. Can you solve it?
- 17 April 2020
Humbug sets the fourth puzzle. Can you solve it?
- 17 April 2020
David Sheard sets the third puzzle. Can you solve it?
- 17 April 2020
TD Dang sets the second puzzle. Can you solve it?
17 April 2020Space-filling curves, cheating at cards and automated joke generation feature in our spring 2020 edition. Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
- 17 April 2020
Celebrate the launch of issue 11 by taking part in our puzzle hunt
17 April 2020We chat with Trachette about her work in mathematical oncology, her role models, and boosting diversity in mathematics
- 17 April 2020
£100 of MathsGear goodies to be won if you can solve it
17 April 2020Are you a torus? A cone? Ed Spheran? Find out by answering a maximum of five easy questions
17 April 2020Kevin Houston teaches us how to deal ourselves the best hand
- 17 April 2020
Grant applications, musical media and last-minute Olympics training are the topics readers have sent in to the professor's postbox this issue
17 April 2020Mara Kortenkamp, Erin Henning and Anna Maria Hartkopf give us a tour of Polytopia, a home for peculiar polytopes
17 April 2020I like my towns like I like my Alex: Bolton
17 April 2020Sam Hartburn orders wine by the barrel, but wonders if she's getting the most wine
17 April 2020Nobody could draw a space filling curve by hand, but that doesn’t stop Andrew Stacey
- 17 April 2020
Vote for your favourite maths-themed day out
17 April 2020Some saucy modelling
17 April 2020Like Fibonacci, but weird. Robert J Low and Thierry Platini explain
- 17 April 2020
Make your own Ecki
17 April 2020David Sheard explores the rich mathematics and history behind the Apollonian packing, and the cover of issue 11
- 17 April 2020
Fashion is fleeting, Chalkdust regulars are not.
- 17 April 2020
The definitive chart of the best pictures of scorpions
17 April 2020Yuliya Nesterova orders some polynomials around
- 17 April 2020
Matthew Scroggs sets the first puzzle. Can you solve it?
- 9 April 2020
Issue 11 of everyone's favourite magazine for the mathematically curious is coming very soon
- 26 March 2020
Did you solve it?
5 March 2020Issah Merchant discusses the geometric principles behind, and real-world applications of, curvature
27 February 2020We announce the winner of this coveted prize
- 20 February 2020
Have your say, and help to choose the 2019 Readers' Choice
20 February 2020We review the ninth of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
19 February 2020We review the eighth of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
18 February 2020We review the sevnth of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
17 February 2020We review the sixth of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
16 February 2020We review the fifth of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
10 February 2020We review the fourth of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
6 February 2020We review the third of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
4 February 2020We review the second of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
3 February 2020We review the first of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
- 30 January 2020
We reveal the shortlist
10 December 201921 simple steps to draw your own Islamic pattern!
23 October 2019Computational proofs, AI music and embarrassing surveys feature in the autumn 2019 issue. Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
- 23 October 2019
Can you solve it?
23 October 2019And will we soon all be out of a job? Kevin Buzzard worries us all.
- 23 October 2019
Letter writing, hospital visits, and getting the family active are among the topics of discussion in this issue's Dear Dirichlet advice column
23 October 2019We chat to the crypto chief about inventing RSA... but not being able to tell anyone
23 October 2019Part 7 of our mathematical comic's adventure
23 October 2019Yiannis Petridis connects square roots and continued fractions
23 October 2019Pamela E Harris's story, as told by Talithia Williams
23 October 2019Carmen Cabrera Arnau explores the use of AI in composition
23 October 2019How do you like your numbers? Prime? Positive but infinitely small? Find out which famous mathematician you are
23 October 2019Angela Brett might not be standing on their shoulders
23 October 2019This article will (unsurprisingly) tell you how to crochet a fractal
- 23 October 2019
Ever thought about making your own fractal?
- 23 October 2019
Explaining the mathematics of tiling, and the cover of Issue 10
- 23 October 2019
Fashion is fleeting, Chalkdust regulars are not.
- 23 October 2019
The definitive chart of the best issues of Chalkdust
23 October 2019You won't bee-lieve it
23 October 2019Paula Rowińska uses mathematics to answer some awkward questions
- 23 October 2019
Vote for your favourite picture of a scorpion
23 October 2019Andrei Chekmasov explores order and infinity
23 October 2019Tasty and mathematical
- 15 October 2019
Come along to our launch party for free pizza and the real quiz
1 October 2019A month celebrating the contributions of black mathematicians
- 27 September 2019
Did you solve it?
1 August 2019Hugh Duncan explores an exciting variation on Conway's Game of Life
6 June 2019We have a go at the puzzles in Daniel Griller’s new book
23 May 2019W.L. Feldhusen explains the obscure sine-finding trick hiding inside your calculator!
2 May 2019Tony Pisculli dissects the lyrics from a popular song
18 April 2019The scientific story behind the cover of Joy Division's treasured debut
4 April 2019A podcast for the mathematically curious
28 March 2019In 2018, scientists discovered a new shape that is essential to multicellular life
14 March 2019Ride a phantom parabola into our spring 2019 issue. Billiards, maths, tiles, mistakes, plus all your favourite regulars.
- 14 March 2019
Win £100 of Maths Gear goodies by solving our famously fiendish crossnumber
14 March 2019Stephen Muirhead meets neither, as he explores waves, tiles and percolation theory
- 14 March 2019
Coffee, Brexit and badgers are among the topics of discussion in this issue's Dear Dirichlet advice column
14 March 2019Yuliya Nesterova misses all the pockets, but does manage to solve some cubics
14 March 2019Mystic mug has some predictions for you...
14 March 2019Axel Kerbec gets locked out while exchanging keys
- 14 March 2019
The definitive chart of the best Chalkdust regulars
14 March 2019Interviewing Matt was a mistake
14 March 2019Lucy Rycroft-Smith reflects on the use of this well-established measurement
14 March 2019Your guide to creating the optimal homepage
14 March 2019Find out more about the spiral trees on the cover of Issue 09
- 14 March 2019
Fashion is fleeting, Chalkdust regulars are not.
14 March 2019Are you u or i? Am I? Who?
14 March 2019An adventure that starts with a morning of bell ringing and ends with a mad dash in a taxi
- 14 March 2019
Vote for your favourite Chalkdust issue
14 March 2019Zoe Griffiths investigates paranormal quadratics
14 March 2019Using graph theory to predict who will sit the iron throne
14 March 2019Peter Rowlett uses combinatorics to generate caterpillars
14 March 2019How big are these random shapes? Submit an answer for a chance to win a prize!
8 March 2019Celebrate International Women's day by reading about rebel women in mathematics!
7 March 2019More sartorial inquisition for your feet
- 1 March 2019
Read the magazine, and come to the launch party!
- 28 February 2019
A podcast for the mathematically curious
21 February 2019Did the Danish mathematician also sail the high seas?
- 14 February 2019
Did you solve it?
7 February 2019Tricks and puzzles that provide an introduction to the world of partitions
- 31 January 2019
A podcast for the mathematically curious
24 January 2019How can we teach people about the sieve in a way that helps them best understand prime numbers?
17 January 2019Investigating the power of thinking rationally
10 January 2019Looking back at puzzles about complex numbers, tic-tac-toe, and the Eggnog Mystery
2 January 2019Lies, liquor and logical deduction play their part in this festive holiday tale
18 December 2018Why do Christmas lights get tangled? And what's the perfect way to decorate a Christmas tree? Find the answers here.
14 December 2018Win this year's best book of geometry puzzles
11 December 2018Looking back at the exciting day that closed our 2018 celebrations
6 December 2018Win a DVD boxset from Festival of the spoken nerd in our first Christmas competition!
29 November 2018Mike Fletcher explores the optimal strategy for winning the popular television game show
22 November 2018Bring your shovel, and dig with us to unearth some amazing results about polynomials
- 16 November 2018
A podcast for the mathematically curious
15 November 2018Hugh Duncan explores polygons with a shortage of edges
8 November 2018What is pi? How do we define it and who first thought of it? We explore the history of this quintessential mathematical constant.
1 November 2018Introducing Mathscon, a mathematics conference with a difference!
30 October 2018John Pougué Biyong explains how and why science communication can lead to better diversity.
25 October 2018Reviewing the Royal Institution's first Black History Month event.
19 October 2018Surprise yourself by making this thing
18 October 2018Swing on a magnetic pendulum into our autumn 2018 issue. Topological tic-tac-toe, maths, cake, categories, plus all your favourite regulars.
18 October 2018Print it out and play against your friends!
18 October 2018We chat to the author of the best-selling book How to Bake Pi and pioneer of maths on YouTube
- 18 October 2018
Win £100 of Maths Gear goodies by solving our famously fiendish crossnumber
18 October 2018Colin Beveridge looks at different designs for 2- and 3-dimensional tiles
18 October 2018Alex Bolton plays noughts and crosses on unusual surfaces
18 October 2018Read about Maxamillion Polignac's adventures in a prime-hating world
18 October 2018Adam Atkinson uses maths to try to help a sculptor
18 October 2018See what we're doing this October to promote and celebrate diversity in mathematics
18 October 2018Are you perfect or imaginary? Are you a square?
18 October 2018Find out more about the weird shapes on the cover of Issue 08
- 18 October 2018
Village fetes, Brexit and flowers are among the topics of discussion in this issue's Dear Dirichlet advice column
18 October 2018Elizabeth A Williams falls off a log
- 18 October 2018
The definitive chart of the best units
18 October 2018Emma Bell explains why the Renaissance mathematician Gerolamo Cardano styled himself as the "man of discoveries".
18 October 2018Tired of hearing people ask which area of maths is your favourite? Get one of these tattooed on your forehead and you'll never be asked again...
- 18 October 2018
Vote for your favourite Chalkdust regular
18 October 2018Many mysteries about hair are now revealed with the ponytail shape equation
- 18 October 2018
Fashion is fleeting, Chalkdust regulars are not.
18 October 2018Just what is category theory? Tai-Danae Bradley explains
18 October 2018Biography of Katherine Johnson, NASA human computer and research mathematician
18 October 2018A tabletop demonstration of chaos.
11 October 2018Nira Chamberlain explains how Black Panther's suit can be modelled mathematically
9 October 2018Clive Fraser reflects on his interactions with one of the greatest ever Black mathematicians
9 October 2018This month’s round up of mathematical blog posts from all over the internet
4 October 2018We look back at last year's Black Mathematician Month, and give a preview of what to expect this October.
3 October 2018You'll never believe number 3!
- 27 September 2018
Join us at our upcoming launch party!
20 September 2018We explore the concept of emptiness in set theory, and explain how zero went from "nothing" to "something"
6 September 2018Introducing the work that has won mathematics' most famous award
30 August 2018Exploring the beauty of complex numbers, their origins and why they are important
23 August 2018How does one produce a net for the broadest class of polyhedra?
16 August 2018... and how Chalkdust played a role in one of them
- 9 August 2018
Did you solve it?
26 July 2018Exploring non-random walks using fractions
28 June 2018A review of Vicky Neale's new book about the quest to understand prime numbers.
21 June 2018We analyse the maths and physics required to execute a good chip shot
14 June 2018Discover the mathematical equations that describe the most commonly observed trajectories in football
7 June 2018An unexpected way to beat the odds in this classic game
4 June 2018Defining what exactly an integral is leads naturally to an explanation of how to handle approximating them.
31 May 2018A selection of weird goings-on from the world of fluid mechanics
17 May 2018A thrilling review of this truly enlightening book
10 May 2018Blood is exceptionally complicated and its composition varies from person to person. So how do we begin to model it?
3 May 2018A mathematically-themed version of the classic card game, with several new features
26 April 2018A collection of our favourite and least favourite things named after Euler, from issue 07
19 April 2018Have you been wondering what the pattern on it means?
12 April 2018``Read Euler, read Euler, he is the master of us all." -- Laplace. An invitation to join us in celebrating Euler's 311th birthday by appreciating a few of his great contributions to mathematics.
5 April 2018Or, how a simple problem can get very complicated, very quickly...
29 March 2018Let's take a look at patterns that can be discovered in Fibonacci numbers and how we can find them around us.
- 12 March 2018
Think outside outside the box in our spring 2018 issue. No more tennis puns, primes mod 4, plus all your favourite regulars.
12 March 2018No more Katie Steckles.
12 March 2018Rob Eastaway joins the dots.
- 12 March 2018
Pigs, popes and produce are among the topics of discussion in this issue's Dear Dirichlet advice column
- 12 March 2018
Win £100 of Maths Gear goodies by solving our famously fiendish crossnumber
12 March 2018Sam Hartburn bakes your favourite fractal
12 March 2018Zoe Griffiths on the life of e
12 March 2018High stakes gambling with Paula Rowińska
- 12 March 2018
Part 6 of our mathematical comic's adventure
12 March 2018In this edition of the series, we instead learn about 'routes' and Edsger Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm.
12 March 2018Alex Xela shows us the world of palindromic numbers, and calculates the chances of getting one
12 March 2018Find out more about the patterns on the cover of Issue 07
- 12 March 2018
The definitive chart of the best dates
12 March 2018Biography of Sir Christopher Zeeman
12 March 2018Race to be the first to get five-in-a-row
12 March 2018Infinitely many primes ending in 1, 3, 7 and 9 proved in typically Eulerian style.
12 March 2018Vote for your favourite unit
- 12 March 2018
Make a catastrophe machine just like Zeeman's
12 March 2018Start your quest to conquer the planet with this introduction to the wonderful world of machine learning
12 March 2018Modelling unemployment using simple differential equations!
12 March 2018Undoubtedly the most influential voice on this hottest of hot topics.
12 March 2018John Dore and Chris Woodcock join the dots
12 March 2018We chat to one of the UK's most qualified voices in mathematics communication
- 12 March 2018
Fashion is fleeting, Chalkdust regulars are not.
8 March 2018You won't believe number 5!
1 March 2018What is the probability that d+2 random points in d-dimensional space form a convex body? Investigating an old problem using modern methods.
- 26 February 2018
Join us at our upcoming launch party!
23 February 2018"Unlocking the hidden mathematics in video games"
14 February 2018Learn how to model your heart one beat at a time ❤️
8 February 2018Belgin plays a classic mathsy game from her childhood...in 16-bit graphics! Here's her review...
1 February 2018You can un-knot a knot, by cutting it not?
25 January 2018Why do surnames die out? We take a look at the Galton-Watson process for modelling the extinction of surnames to answer the question: 'When will we all be Smiths?'
- 24 January 2018
Did you solve it?
18 January 2018A fiendish puzzle for you to 'pour' over...
11 January 2018Some summations seem strangely slippery...
4 January 2018Uniting the teaching of mathematics and music can benefit pupils greatly in both areas.
31 December 2017What have we been up to this year?
31 December 2017... and the winners
22 December 2017Can you solve four puzzles to reveal the hidden message?
21 December 2017Reviewing this week's conundrum prize... science-y stuff staring you in the face!
18 December 2017Try our nonograms! And remember, not all puzzles have a unique solution...
14 December 2017Christmas is coming, and Santa will soon begin his journey. We analyse the science and maths behind his trip.
11 December 2017Solve this and you could be the lucky winner of a signed copy of The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus
- 7 December 2017
We round up some of the last month's top mathematical posts from around the internet
4 December 2017Solve this and you could be the lucky winner of a Chalkdust T-shirt
30 November 2017As the festive season strikes again, we'll be dishing out more fiendish puzzles – this time with prizes!
23 November 2017Should you ask Santa for 'Ice Col' Beveridge's encyclopedic tome this festive period?
16 November 2017Chalkdust descends upon the UK's largest pop maths gathering and tells you what you missed
9 November 2017When you get tired of using your calculator for numbers, why not use it for words?
2 November 2017Maths has strong connections to art and music, but what about to both at the same time?
31 October 2017Reflecting on what we've learnt over the past few weeks.
27 October 2017The co-author of a recent paper on diversity in professional STEM societies talks about access to science.
26 October 2017Meet Talitha Washington, an activist, mathematician, and professor
25 October 2017Stories and lessons on diversity in mathematics from a globe-trotting number theorist.
24 October 2017We spoke with Jonathan Farley about his research and experiences as a black mathematician.
23 October 2017As part of Black Mathematician Month, we spoke to the Bristol University professor about access schemes and the importance of mentors.
- 19 October 2017
Cardioids in coffee cups, counting with three fingers, and breakfast at Villani's. Plus the return of all your favourite fun pages in our autumn 2017 issue.
18 October 2017Win £100 of Maths Gear goodies by solving our famously fiendish crossnumber
18 October 2017We feel underdressed for Breakfast at Villani's
- 18 October 2017
Prof. Dirichlet tackles archaeology and supercomputers in answering your personal problems
18 October 2017Staring at your coffee, you wonder whether the light reflecting in cup really is a cardioid curve...
18 October 2017Robert J Low flips one upside down.
- 18 October 2017
Part 5 of our mathematical comic's adventure
18 October 2017We take a proper look at her mathematical accomplishments
18 October 2017"R" you a Matlab or a Python? Fortran or Mathematica? Find out which package suits you best.
- 18 October 2017
The definitive chart of the best tools
18 October 2017A biography of Sophie Bryant
- 18 October 2017
Mathematical fashion advice for an ever-changing world
- 18 October 2017
Vote for your favourite mathematical celebration day
