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Carmen is doing a PhD in applied mathematics at UCL with a focus on mathematical modelling of complex systems in urban environments. She enjoys maths outreach, eating cheese naan, and has been working for Chalkdust since 2017.

How to make: Ecki the polytope
Make your own Ecki
Artificial music
Carmen Cabrera Arnau explores the use of AI in composition
Review: Power in numbers — the rebel women of mathematics
Celebrate International Women's day by reading about rebel women in mathematics!
Well, well, well…
A fiendish puzzle for you to 'pour' over...
The croissant equation
Each time you eat a croissant you might be biting more than 500 layers of dough!
The wonders of mathematical crochet
Hyperbolic surfaces, Klein bottles and more