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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.

In conversation with Martin Hairer
We talk to the Fields medallist about his life, his work and his advice to his younger self.
The Maths of Life and Death
We review the sevnth of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
The new Chalkdust T-shirt
Have you been wondering what the pattern on it means?
Chalkdust Issue 07 – coming 13 March
Join us at our upcoming launch party!
Surname extinction
Why 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?'
Slide rules: the early calculators
When slide rules used to rule... find out why they still do

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