virginia-state - 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.
In conversation with Dominique Sleet
Ellen Jolley learns how to run a maths outreach programme
On curvature: cars, clothoids and cartography
Issah Merchant discusses the geometric principles behind, and real-world applications of, curvature
Taking the (mathematically) perfect picture at the Leaning Tower Of Pisa
Finding the best picture at the Leaning Tower of Pisa is all about the maths rather than the pose!
The simplest difficult task
Factorisation is often used in cryptography. But there's something even simpler which turns out to be just as hard.
The doodle theorem, and beyond…
Colin Wright juggles Euler, doodling and Millennium problems