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Sam Kay reflects on building a universe
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Nora Koparan tells the story of the first female professor of mathematics
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Make your own scatterer from some old Christmas decorations
Overturned polygons: shapes with less than two sides
Hugh Duncan explores polygons with a shortage of edges
Christmas cracker joke II
This post was part of the Chalkdust 2016 Advent Calendar. Newton: "Are you going to the Fibonacci themed Christmas party?" Euler: "Yes! I heard it's going to be as big as the two previous years put together."
Killing by numbers: the mathematics of warfare
A blast from the past. Modelling battle grounds from ancient Greece.