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An image of a greay building with a row of arches at the base. Green grass and blue sky with some clouds

Noether’s ashes were buried in the cloisters ouside the Bry Mawr old library. Bryn Mawr’s mascot is the owl. Go owls. Image: Jeffrey M Vinocur, CC BY 2.5/Adobe Firefly

Elinor Flavell

Elinor is a PhD student at the Open University studying the history of maths. She loves maths, history and most things in between!

Solving a cubic in 1646
Elinor Flavell takes squaring the circle to another level
Review of “Getting Triggy with it”
Find out what we thought of Matt Parker's 2025 Edinburgh Fringe show
In conversation with Alison Etheridge
Elinor Flavell talks to the recently appointed dame about life, mathematics and more.
Chalkdust Book of the Year 2024
We announce the shortlist of our favourite maths-themed books of last year
Thinking outside outside the box
Rob Eastaway joins the dots.
The croissant equation
Each time you eat a croissant you might be biting more than 500 layers of dough!