punchcards - 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.

In conversation with Anne Skeldon
Sam Kay and Ellen Jolley race against the body clock with the University of Surrey professor
On the cover: Folding hydrogels, encoding mathematics
Ellen Jolley and Kat Phillips know when to hold, and when to fold
A daredevil’s disaster
Donovan Young goes round the bend exploring what happens when the loop-the-loop goes wrong
In conversation with Martin Hairer
We talk to the Fields medallist about his life, his work and his advice to his younger self.
Mathematical Adventures!
We review the first of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
Page 3 model: Cooking spaghetti
Some saucy modelling