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 Martin Hairer
We talk to the Fields medallist about his life, his work and his advice to his younger self.
Counting all the numbers between zero and one
Tony Pisculli dissects the lyrics from a popular song
Variations on Fermat: an agony in four fits
Fermat's Last Theorem with complex powers, wrapped in a story every mathematician can relate to
Mini crossnumber
All the fun of our prize crossnumber, just smaller and without a prize
A brief history of gravitational waves
The discovery of gravitational waves offers a new way of looking at the universe. Who knows what we will discover?
The Mpemba paradox
Why does warm water freeze faster than cold water?