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Articles by Trupti Patel

Trupti Patel
Trupti is a PhD student in the London Centre for Nanotechnology in UCL. She works on Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices.
All articles by Trupti
  • How to tile a chessboard

    How to tile a chessboard

    21 January 2016
    Introducing polyominoes

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Chalkdust is published by Chalkdust Magazine, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom. ISSN 2059-3805 (Print). ISSN 2059-3813 (Online).