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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.

Solving a cubic in 1646
Elinor Flavell takes squaring the circle to another level
In conversation with Martin Hairer
We talk to the Fields medallist about his life, his work and his advice to his younger self.
At Sixes and Sevens
We review the fourth of this year’s nominees for the Book of the Year
Topological tic-tac-toe
Alex Bolton plays noughts and crosses on unusual surfaces
Folding nets into Johnson solids
How does one produce a net for the broadest class of polyhedra?
Thinking outside the box
Negative polygons and other mathematical creations

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