ibm - Chalkdust

Bea is a PhD student in the computer science department at UCL. Since joining the team she’s found that the other editors find the phrase ‘it needs more white space’ very triggering.

Dear Dirichlet, Issue 17
Canines, Cliff Richard and conditioning find their way into the prof's postbox this issue.
In conversation with Martin Hairer
We talk to the Fields medallist about his life, his work and his advice to his younger self.
Spam calls and number blocking
Michael Wendl really wants those spammers to stop calling him
Too good to be Truchet
Colin Beveridge looks at different designs for 2- and 3-dimensional tiles
Significant figures: Katherine Johnson
Biography of Katherine Johnson, NASA human computer and research mathematician
Can you make something out of nothing?
We explore the concept of emptiness in set theory, and explain how zero went from "nothing" to "something"