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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.

In conversation with Martin Hairer
We talk to the Fields medallist about his life, his work and his advice to his younger self.
How to Read Numbers
We review the second of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
The scutoid: a geometric building block of life
In 2018, scientists discovered a new shape that is essential to multicellular life
Roots: Mary Somerville
Mary Somerville fights against social mores to become one of the leading mathematicians of her time.
Flexagon Templates
Print out and make a flexagon
Why is it so hard to pull two phone books apart?
Take two phone books and interleave all their pages one by one. Now try and pull them apart by their spines. Impossible, right?