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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.

Chalkdust Book of the Year 2025
We announce the shortlist of our favourite maths-themed books of last year
The hidden harmonies of Hamming distance
Chris Boucher explores the secrets and symmetries behind a measure of the distance between binary strings
Dear Dirichlet, Issue 13
Parishoners, partners and puzzled playwrights have written in to the professor's postbox this issue
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!
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