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The wonderful cover of issue 14

Chalkdust issue 14 cover

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.

A day in the life: statisticians
We talk to four statisticians working in different jobs across industry and academia
In conversation with Martin Hairer
We talk to the Fields medallist about his life, his work and his advice to his younger self.
The digital sum of the products of twin primes is 8?
What connects the products of twin primes with something you learnt in primary school and the number 8?
Curiouser and curiouser!
Some surprising mathematical facts
In conversation with Ian Stewart
We speak to one of Britain's most successful popularisers of maths
Page 3 model: When zombies attack
Every issue we feature another great model on page 3 of our magazine. This time we look at what to do when zombies attack.