9 January 2026 A new online seminar series. Each seminar is an accessible introduction to a theorem of the 21st century.
17 November 2025 DNA origami, tracks and an interview with El Nombre feature in our AW25 issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
17 November 2025 Adam Townsend and Clare Wallace talk to the children’s programme creator about writing for younger generations
17 November 2025 May the bending and twisting forces be with Hannah Woods
17 November 2025 Mats Vermeeren gets involved in involutes
17 November 2025 Peter Rowlett gets in a tangle ... KNOT!
10 November 2025 Pre-order your copy of issue 22 now!
28 August 2025 Do you have lots of unread pop math books on your shelves? Join our new monthly online book club!
18 August 2025 Find out what we thought of Matt Parker's 2025 Edinburgh Fringe show
18 June 2025 Calling all final-year students! This is your opportunity to get your work published as a Chalkdust article.
17 March 2025 Sudoku, potatoes and crossnumber's biggest secrets finally revealed in our spring 2025 issue. Plus all your favourite columns!
17 March 2025 Elinor Flavell talks to the recently appointed dame about life, mathematics and more.
17 March 2025 Potatoes, mugs and doughnuts with Ashleigh Ratcliffe.
17 March 2025 Matthew Scroggs explains how to get digits all riled up
17 March 2025 Hayden Mankin combines traditional art with randomness
17 March 2025 Sam Kay reflects on building a universe
12 March 2025 Pre-order your copy of issue 21 now!
26 February 2025 We review the seventh and last of this year’s nominees for Book of the Year
26 February 2025 We review the sixth of this year’s nominees for Book of the Year
25 February 2025 We review the fifth of this year’s nominees for Book of the Year
24 February 2025 We review the fourth of this year’s nominees for Book of the Year
20 February 2025 We review the third of this year’s nominees for Book of the Year
19 February 2025 We review the second of this year’s nominees for Book of the Year
18 February 2025 We review the first of this year’s nominees for Book of the Year
13 February 2025 We announce the shortlist of our favourite maths-themed books of last year
8 November 2024 Spirographs, complex triangles and a lot of ants feature in our AW24 issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
8 November 2024 Ashleigh Wilcox and Ellen Jolley chat to the professor and maths communicator about books, the Open University and music
8 November 2024 Molly Ireland presents a gambit which will impress your mates
8 November 2024 Joe Celko makes a database from card and knitting needles
8 November 2024 Ashleigh Wilcox, Jenny Power and Rachel Evans show you how to draw pretty pictures
8 November 2024 Sophie Bleau explores the differential on Morseback.
1 November 2024 Pre-order your copy of our 9½-year anniversary issue now!
28 October 2024 Did you solve it?
27 May 2024 Calling all final-year students!
20 May 2024 Drinks orders, integer mysteries and the new LMS president feature in our SS24 issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
20 May 2024 Bethany Clarke and Enric Solé-Farré chat to the professor and new president of the London Mathematical Society about academia, access and awards
20 May 2024 Ashleigh Wilcox looks for integer solutions to the Markov equation
20 May 2024 Nora Koparan tells the story of the first female professor of mathematics
20 May 2024 We announce the winners of this coveted prize
9 May 2024 Pre-order your copy now!
29 March 2024 We review the ninth of this year's nominees for Book of the Year
29 March 2024 We review the eighth of this year's nominees for Book of the Year
21 March 2024 We review the seventh of this year's nominees for Book of the Year
19 March 2024 We review the sixth of this year's nominees for Book of the Year
14 March 2024 We review the fifth of this year's nominees for Book of the Year
12 March 2024 We review the fourth of this year's nominees for Book of the Year
11 March 2024 We review the third of this year's nominees for Book of the Year
5 March 2024 We review the second of this year's nominees for Book of the Year
29 February 2024 We review the first of this year's nominees for Book of the Year
27 February 2024 We announce the shortlist of our favourite maths-themed books of last year
6 December 2023 Twitch streaming, abacuses and Pascal's secrets feature in our AW23 issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
6 December 2023 Bethany Clarke and Ellen Jolley talk research, raids, and rugby with the Twitch streamer
6 December 2023 Madeleine Hall is a Dedekind-ed follower of fashion
6 December 2023 Connie Bambridge-Sutton invites you to make a flexible 3D shape
6 December 2023 Joe Celko looks at four different abacuses used throughout history
23 November 2023 Did you solve it?
22 May 2023 Penguins, prison and PDE patterns feature in our Spring 2023 issue. Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
22 May 2023 We find out more about the charity's work to support maths education in prisons.
22 May 2023 Sophie Bleau chops up, unravels, and squeezes the torus into shape
22 May 2023 Sam Harris looks at how Pingu and his friends can stay cosy
22 May 2023 Ben Walker, Adam Townsend & Andrew Krause invite you to play with their fun online PDE visualiser
14 May 2023 Pre-order a copy and/or book your ticket for our launch event
4 May 2023 Did you solve it?
30 March 2023 We review the eighth (and last) of this year’s nominees for the Book of the Year
30 March 2023 We review the seventh of this year’s nominees for the Book of the Year
28 March 2023 We review the sixth of this year’s nominees for the Book of the Year
27 March 2023 We review the fifth of this year’s nominees for the Book of the Year
23 March 2023 We review the fourth of this year’s nominees for the Book of the Year
22 March 2023 We review the third of this year’s nominees for the Book of the Year
21 March 2023 We review the second of this year’s nominees for the Book of the Year
20 March 2023 We review the first of this year’s nominees for the Book of the Year
22 February 2023 We announce the shortlist of our favourite maths-themed books of last year
9 November 2022 Fields medals, iconic intersections, and things with silly names coming your way in our autumn 2022 issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
9 November 2022 We talk to the Fields medallist about his life, his work and his advice to his younger self.
9 November 2022 Peach Semolina admits her true feelings about science fiction, and delves into the maths of quantum teleportation.
9 November 2022 Colin Beveridge barges in and admires some curious railway bridges
9 November 2022 Peter Rowlett is gonna need a bigger board
8 November 2022 Did you solve it?
7 November 2022 Hear ye! Hear ye! Chalkdust Magazine issue 16 is launching, full of mathematical joy and curiosity.
25 May 2022 Squid Game, hidden harmonies and DnD coming your way in our brand new issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
25 May 2022 Ellen talks to the mathematician and scientist about Attenborough, arctan and Antarctica
25 May 2022 E Adrian Henle, Nick Gantzler, François-Xavier Coudert & Cory Simon team up for a deadly challenge
25 May 2022 Poppy Azmi explores the patterns that are all around us
25 May 2022 Mats Vermeeren sketches a simple proof of Noether's first theorem
16 May 2022 Roll up, roll up! Squid Game, hidden harmonies and DnD coming your way in Issue 15. (Plus all the usual nonsense.)
12 May 2022 Did you solve it?
15 April 2022 We review the seventh of this year’s nominees for the Book of the Year
14 April 2022 We review the sixth of this year’s nominees for the Book of the Year
14 April 2022 We review the fifth of this year’s nominees for the Book of the Year
13 April 2022 We review the fourth of this year’s nominees for the Book of the Year
13 April 2022 We review the third of this year’s nominees for the Book of the Year
12 April 2022 We review the second of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
11 April 2022 We review the first of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
31 March 2022 We announce the shortlist of our favourite maths-themed books of last year
22 November 2021 Venn diagrams, retrograde chess, and behind-the-scenes Christmas lectures all feature in our autumn 2021 edition. Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
22 November 2021 Donovan Young interferes in wave patterns
22 November 2021 Madeleine Hall takes a brief dive into the world’s favourite set-relationship-representation diagram.
22 November 2021 Ellen Jolley learns how to run a maths outreach programme
22 November 2021 Michael Wendl dissects some variants of the magic separation, a self-working card trick.
15 November 2021 Enter stage left: Chalkdust issue 14. Preorder now!
4 November 2021 Did you solve it?
1 May 2021 Sus Mafia strategies, LMS president Ulrike Tillmann, and Bae's theorem ❤️ all feature in our spring 2021 edition. Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
1 May 2021 Sophie Maclean and David Sheard speak to a very top(olog)ical mathematician!
1 May 2021 Madeleine Hall explores the sometimes counterintuitive consequences of conditional probability to our everyday lives.
1 May 2021 Sophie explores the fascinating mathematics behind the games Mafia and Among Us.
1 May 2021 Paddy Moore levels the score
1 May 2021 Discover the meaning of the coloured squares on the cover of issue 13
1 May 2021 Johannes Huber explores the maths behind how image compression works.
27 April 2021 A great start to the month of Maying
15 March 2021 We announce the winner of this coveted prize
9 March 2021 We review the seventh of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year, and open the vote for the readers' favourite
9 March 2021 We review the sixth of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
4 March 2021 We review the fifth of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
2 March 2021 We review the fourth of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
1 March 2021 We review the third of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
23 February 2021 We review the second of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
22 February 2021 We review the first of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
15 February 2021 We announce the shortlist
14 January 2021 Łukasz takes us on a tour through a surprisingly diverse range of algorithms to test for divisibility by 7
2 January 2021 We reveal the solutions to our Christmas puzzles!
26 December 2020 Puzzle #3 in our 2020 Christmas puzzle series
25 December 2020 Puzzle #2 in our 2020 Christmas puzzle series
24 December 2020 Puzzle #1 in our 2020 Christmas puzzle series
11 December 2020 Belgin gets hooked on a classic maths game...in 16 bits! Here's her review...
26 November 2020 Hugh Duncan returns with the long-awaited prequel in which he further explores the geometric patterns hidden behind the fractions.
10 November 2020 Now available to catch up on YouTube
30 October 2020 Independent Sage's Christina Pagel, hyperbolic mindfulness and make-your-own Markov tweet feature in our autumn 2020 edition. Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
30 October 2020 Ellen Jolley asks for (independent) Sage advice
30 October 2020 Maynard manages to prove that 2≠1 in less space than it took Bertrand Russell to prove that 1+1=2
30 October 2020 Florian Bouyer explains the beautiful geometry behind his mathematical colouring-in designs.
30 October 2020 Who is behind the so-called Nobel prize of mathematics? Gerda Grase investigates.
1 October 2020 Did you solve it?
17 April 2020 Space-filling curves, cheating at cards and automated joke generation feature in our spring 2020 edition. Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
17 April 2020 We chat with Trachette about her work in mathematical oncology, her role models, and boosting diversity in mathematics
17 April 2020 Kevin Houston teaches us how to deal ourselves the best hand
17 April 2020 Mara Kortenkamp, Erin Henning and Anna Maria Hartkopf give us a tour of Polytopia, a home for peculiar polytopes
17 April 2020 I like my towns like I like my Alex: Bolton
17 April 2020 Nobody could draw a space filling curve by hand, but that doesn’t stop Andrew Stacey
17 April 2020 David Sheard explores the rich mathematics and history behind the Apollonian packing, and the cover of issue 11
9 April 2020 Issue 11 of everyone's favourite magazine for the mathematically curious is coming very soon
5 March 2020 Issah Merchant discusses the geometric principles behind, and real-world applications of, curvature
27 February 2020 We announce the winner of this coveted prize
20 February 2020 We review the ninth of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
19 February 2020 We review the eighth of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
18 February 2020 We review the sevnth of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
17 February 2020 We review the sixth of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
16 February 2020 We review the fifth of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
10 February 2020 We review the fourth of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
6 February 2020 We review the third of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
4 February 2020 We review the second of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
3 February 2020 We review the first of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
30 January 2020 We reveal the shortlist
10 December 2019 21 simple steps to draw your own Islamic pattern!
23 October 2019 Computational proofs, AI music and embarrassing surveys feature in the autumn 2019 issue. Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
23 October 2019 And will we soon all be out of a job? Kevin Buzzard worries us all.
23 October 2019 We chat to the crypto chief about inventing RSA... but not being able to tell anyone
23 October 2019 Yiannis Petridis connects square roots and continued fractions
23 October 2019 Carmen Cabrera Arnau explores the use of AI in composition
23 October 2019 Paula Rowińska uses mathematics to answer some awkward questions
15 October 2019 Come along to our launch party for free pizza and the real quiz
1 October 2019 A month celebrating the contributions of black mathematicians
27 September 2019 Did you solve it?
1 August 2019 Hugh Duncan explores an exciting variation on Conway's Game of Life
6 June 2019 We have a go at the puzzles in Daniel Griller’s new book
23 May 2019 W.L. Feldhusen explains the obscure sine-finding trick hiding inside your calculator!
2 May 2019 Tony Pisculli dissects the lyrics from a popular song
18 April 2019 The scientific story behind the cover of Joy Division's treasured debut
4 April 2019 A podcast for the mathematically curious
28 March 2019 In 2018, scientists discovered a new shape that is essential to multicellular life
14 March 2019 Ride a phantom parabola into our spring 2019 issue. Billiards, maths, tiles, mistakes, plus all your favourite regulars.
14 March 2019 Stephen Muirhead meets neither, as he explores waves, tiles and percolation theory
14 March 2019 Yuliya Nesterova misses all the pockets, but does manage to solve some cubics
14 March 2019 Axel Kerbec gets locked out while exchanging keys
14 March 2019 Interviewing Matt was a mistake
14 March 2019 Lucy Rycroft-Smith reflects on the use of this well-established measurement
14 March 2019 An adventure that starts with a morning of bell ringing and ends with a mad dash in a taxi
14 March 2019 Zoe Griffiths investigates paranormal quadratics
14 March 2019 Peter Rowlett uses combinatorics to generate caterpillars
14 March 2019 How big are these random shapes? Submit an answer for a chance to win a prize!
8 March 2019 Celebrate International Women's day by reading about rebel women in mathematics!
7 March 2019 More sartorial inquisition for your feet
1 March 2019 Read the magazine, and come to the launch party!
28 February 2019 A podcast for the mathematically curious
21 February 2019 Did the Danish mathematician also sail the high seas?
14 February 2019 Did you solve it?
7 February 2019 Tricks and puzzles that provide an introduction to the world of partitions
31 January 2019 A podcast for the mathematically curious
24 January 2019 How can we teach people about the sieve in a way that helps them best understand prime numbers?
17 January 2019 Investigating the power of thinking rationally
10 January 2019 Looking back at puzzles about complex numbers, tic-tac-toe, and the Eggnog Mystery
2 January 2019 Lies, liquor and logical deduction play their part in this festive holiday tale
18 December 2018 Why do Christmas lights get tangled? And what's the perfect way to decorate a Christmas tree? Find the answers here.
14 December 2018 Win this year's best book of geometry puzzles
11 December 2018 Looking back at the exciting day that closed our 2018 celebrations
6 December 2018 Win a DVD boxset from Festival of the spoken nerd in our first Christmas competition!
29 November 2018 Mike Fletcher explores the optimal strategy for winning the popular television game show
22 November 2018 Bring your shovel, and dig with us to unearth some amazing results about polynomials
16 November 2018 A podcast for the mathematically curious
15 November 2018 Hugh Duncan explores polygons with a shortage of edges
8 November 2018 What is pi? How do we define it and who first thought of it? We explore the history of this quintessential mathematical constant.
1 November 2018 Introducing Mathscon, a mathematics conference with a difference!
30 October 2018 John Pougué Biyong explains how and why science communication can lead to better diversity.
25 October 2018 Reviewing the Royal Institution's first Black History Month event.
18 October 2018 Swing on a magnetic pendulum into our autumn 2018 issue. Topological tic-tac-toe, maths, cake, categories, plus all your favourite regulars.
18 October 2018 We chat to the author of the best-selling book How to Bake Pi and pioneer of maths on YouTube
18 October 2018 Colin Beveridge looks at different designs for 2- and 3-dimensional tiles
18 October 2018 Alex Bolton plays noughts and crosses on unusual surfaces
18 October 2018 Adam Atkinson uses maths to try to help a sculptor
18 October 2018 Emma Bell explains why the Renaissance mathematician Gerolamo Cardano styled himself as the "man of discoveries".
18 October 2018 Just what is category theory? Tai-Danae Bradley explains
11 October 2018 Nira Chamberlain explains how Black Panther's suit can be modelled mathematically
9 October 2018 Clive Fraser reflects on his interactions with one of the greatest ever Black mathematicians
9 October 2018 This month’s round up of mathematical blog posts from all over the internet
4 October 2018 We look back at last year's Black Mathematician Month, and give a preview of what to expect this October.
3 October 2018 You'll never believe number 3!
27 September 2018 Join us at our upcoming launch party!
20 September 2018 We explore the concept of emptiness in set theory, and explain how zero went from "nothing" to "something"
6 September 2018 Introducing the work that has won mathematics' most famous award
30 August 2018 Exploring the beauty of complex numbers, their origins and why they are important
23 August 2018 How does one produce a net for the broadest class of polyhedra?
16 August 2018 ... and how Chalkdust played a role in one of them
9 August 2018 Did you solve it?
26 July 2018 Exploring non-random walks using fractions
28 June 2018 A review of Vicky Neale's new book about the quest to understand prime numbers.
21 June 2018 We analyse the maths and physics required to execute a good chip shot
14 June 2018 Discover the mathematical equations that describe the most commonly observed trajectories in football
7 June 2018 An unexpected way to beat the odds in this classic game
4 June 2018 Defining what exactly an integral is leads naturally to an explanation of how to handle approximating them.
31 May 2018 A selection of weird goings-on from the world of fluid mechanics
17 May 2018 A thrilling review of this truly enlightening book
10 May 2018 Blood is exceptionally complicated and its composition varies from person to person. So how do we begin to model it?
3 May 2018 A mathematically-themed version of the classic card game, with several new features
26 April 2018 A collection of our favourite and least favourite things named after Euler, from issue 07
19 April 2018 Have you been wondering what the pattern on it means?
12 April 2018 ``Read Euler, read Euler, he is the master of us all." -- Laplace. An invitation to join us in celebrating Euler's 311th birthday by appreciating a few of his great contributions to mathematics.
5 April 2018 Or, how a simple problem can get very complicated, very quickly...
29 March 2018 Let's take a look at patterns that can be discovered in Fibonacci numbers and how we can find them around us.
12 March 2018 Think outside outside the box in our spring 2018 issue. No more tennis puns, primes mod 4, plus all your favourite regulars.
12 March 2018 No more Katie Steckles.
12 March 2018 Rob Eastaway joins the dots.
12 March 2018 Sam Hartburn bakes your favourite fractal
12 March 2018 High stakes gambling with Paula Rowińska
12 March 2018 Alex Xela shows us the world of palindromic numbers, and calculates the chances of getting one
12 March 2018 In this edition of the series, we instead learn about 'routes' and Edsger Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm.
12 March 2018 Infinitely many primes ending in 1, 3, 7 and 9 proved in typically Eulerian style.
12 March 2018 We chat to one of the UK's most qualified voices in mathematics communication
8 March 2018 You won't believe number 5!
1 March 2018 What is the probability that d+2 random points in d-dimensional space form a convex body? Investigating an old problem using modern methods.
26 February 2018 Join us at our upcoming launch party!
23 February 2018 "Unlocking the hidden mathematics in video games"
14 February 2018 Learn how to model your heart one beat at a time ❤️
8 February 2018 Belgin plays a classic mathsy game from her childhood...in 16-bit graphics! Here's her review...
1 February 2018 You can un-knot a knot, by cutting it not?
25 January 2018 Why do surnames die out? We take a look at the Galton-Watson process for modelling the extinction of surnames to answer the question: 'When will we all be Smiths?'
24 January 2018 Did you solve it?
18 January 2018 A fiendish puzzle for you to 'pour' over...
11 January 2018 Some summations seem strangely slippery...
4 January 2018 Uniting the teaching of mathematics and music can benefit pupils greatly in both areas.
31 December 2017 What have we been up to this year?
31 December 2017 ... and the winners
22 December 2017 Can you solve four puzzles to reveal the hidden message?
21 December 2017 Reviewing this week's conundrum prize... science-y stuff staring you in the face!
18 December 2017 Try our nonograms! And remember, not all puzzles have a unique solution...
14 December 2017 Christmas is coming, and Santa will soon begin his journey. We analyse the science and maths behind his trip.
11 December 2017 Solve this and you could be the lucky winner of a signed copy of The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus
7 December 2017 We round up some of the last month's top mathematical posts from around the internet
4 December 2017 Solve this and you could be the lucky winner of a Chalkdust T-shirt
30 November 2017 As the festive season strikes again, we'll be dishing out more fiendish puzzles – this time with prizes!
23 November 2017 Should you ask Santa for 'Ice Col' Beveridge's encyclopedic tome this festive period?
16 November 2017 Chalkdust descends upon the UK's largest pop maths gathering and tells you what you missed
9 November 2017 When you get tired of using your calculator for numbers, why not use it for words?
2 November 2017 Maths has strong connections to art and music, but what about to both at the same time?
18 October 2017 We feel underdressed for Breakfast at Villani's
18 October 2017 Staring at your coffee, you wonder whether the light reflecting in cup really is a cardioid curve...
18 October 2017 Robert J Low flips one upside down.
18 October 2017 We take a proper look at her mathematical accomplishments
18 October 2017 Murder, maths, malaria and mammals
18 October 2017 Blaise Pascal was driven to begin the mechanisation of mathematics by his father's struggles with an accounts book in 17th century France.
18 October 2017 Contemplate the beauty of the Julia and Mandelbrot sets and an elegant mathematical explanation of them
17 October 2017 How many did you spot?
9 October 2017 Nira Chamberlain, one of the UK's top 100 scientists, shares his experiences as a black mathematician.
2 October 2017 Promoting black mathematicians, and talking about building a more representative mathematical community.
2 October 2017 Free launch party, 7.15pm. Come along!
28 September 2017 A polygon with four and a half sides?!
21 September 2017 While drinking beer in your favourite pub, have you ever wondered how it is produced? Find here some of the science and mathematics behind brewing.
14 September 2017 Take a ball, divide it into parts, glue them back and get two identical copies of your ball!
7 September 2017 A hideous equation that hides beautiful images, and much (much) more besides...
31 August 2017 How processes used in image editing are related to mathematics!
24 August 2017 We created hot ice from scratch, a solution that remains liquid even below its freezing point!
17 August 2017 A quick look at how to get the most bang for your buck the next time you're in a bidding war
10 August 2017 A summer essential or an embarrassment risk on the streets of Ibiza?
3 August 2017 How to win a game when your expected score is 0
27 July 2017 Did you win?
20 July 2017 Write down a quadratic. What is the probability that it factorises? Paging Prof. Dirichet...
13 July 2017 A crossnumber clue takes us plunging headfirst towards projective geometry
11 July 2017 Human migration with mathematical models, data and a hands-on experiment!
6 July 2017 Some interesting observations with the pigeonhole principle
29 June 2017 Have a go at these puzzles, adequate for your holidays!
22 June 2017 We take a look at the top 10 emojis!
15 June 2017 Next time you are finished using a paper cup, create your own papercupter!
8 June 2017 Read about our least favourite numbers in this collection from issue 5!
1 June 2017 Discover the mysteries behind the most spectacular free-kick ever scored and how Newton can help us to simulate it.
25 May 2017 Finding the best picture at the Leaning Tower of Pisa is all about the maths rather than the pose!
17 May 2017 Each time you eat a croissant you might be biting more than 500 layers of dough!
11 May 2017 We have a go at the puzzles in Daniel Griller's new book
4 May 2017 We chat to Marcus about science communication, teaching mathematics in schools, and how to make group theory sound sexy.
27 April 2017 Negative polygons and other mathematical creations
20 April 2017 In the Aztec city of Atzlan, the scientist Remotep makes a revolutionary discovery
16 April 2017 How optimising the space around a circular monument is related to supereggs
13 April 2017 When you're caught in the rain without an umbrella... what is your best option?
6 April 2017 Unexpected item in bagging areAAAARGGGHH here's 90p change in pennies
30 March 2017 After 100 years, a key postulate of the third law of thermodynamics has been proven. We meet Lluis Masanes, one of the researchers responsible.
27 March 2017 Not the new coin we want, but the new coin we need
23 March 2017 How to make the most slices from just a few cuts of cake
6 March 2017 Graphical linear algebra, slide rules and game theory in nature. Plus all your favourite fun pages in our spring 2017 issue.
6 March 2017 We chat to the chief scientific advisor to the Home Office about the role of scientists and mathematicians in politics
6 March 2017 Rediscover linear algebra by playing with circuit diagrams
6 March 2017 Fermat's Last Theorem with complex powers, wrapped in a story every mathematician can relate to
6 March 2017 When slide rules used to rule... find out why they still do
2 March 2017 How many did you spot?
23 February 2017 Free launch party, 7.15pm. Come along! Free copies of Chalkdust, free pizza, and buy your own Chalkdust T-shirt.
16 February 2017 What connects the products of twin primes with something you learnt in primary school and the number 8?
14 February 2017 A tragic love story of shares and viral songs. To share, or not to share...
9 February 2017 For those of you tackling this dilemma, here's your answer...
2 February 2017 Some surprising mathematical facts
27 January 2017 Here are some highlights of the first two years of Chalkdust!
26 January 2017 Are you a winner?
19 January 2017 Lindsay Lohan is really good at L'Hôpital's rule.
12 January 2017 Why the infamous acronym needs revising.
5 January 2017 Can you wear them and be taken mathematically seriously?
24 December 2016 It's the last day of the Chalkdust advent calendar, so there must be something very good behind today's door...
23 December 2016 Behind today's door... a puzzle!
22 December 2016 Behind today's door... A book review!
21 December 2016 Behind today's door... More fascinating facts!
20 December 2016 Behind today's door... Another carol!
19 December 2016 Find your perfect partner with this wonderful tree diagram!
18 December 2016 Behind today's door... A joke!
17 December 2016 Agony uncle Professor Dirichlet answers your personal problems this Christmastime.
16 December 2016 Behind today's door... A quiz!
15 December 2016 This year's Chalkdust puzzle Christmas card
14 December 2016 Santa's sack of scientific surprises
13 December 2016 Behind today's door... a quiz!
12 December 2016 Behind today's door... a puzzle!
11 December 2016 This post was part of the Chalkdust 2016 Advent Calendar. Newton: "Are you going to the Fibonacci themed Christmas party?" Euler: "Yes! I heard it's going to be as big as the two previous years put together."
10 December 2016 Behind today's door... a good joke!
9 December 2016 Behind today's door... A binary magic card trick!
8 December 2016 Winter is coming!
7 December 2016 Behind today's door... The Chalkdust guide to Christmas presents
6 December 2016 Behind today's door... a puzzle!
5 December 2016 And on the fifth day, some rather Algebraic Golden Rings:
4 December 2016 Behind today's door... a mathematical Christmas Carol
3 December 2016 Santa's sack of scientific surprises
2 December 2016 Behind the second door of the advent calendar, there is a puzzle
1 December 2016 Get into the ChristMATHS spirit with the maths behind the popular Christmas carol!
24 November 2016 How crime science, and the maths it uses, is helping the police fight crime
17 November 2016 Here we have collected our favourite sets, from the Mandelbrot set to the Mahut-Isner set!
10 November 2016 Using modern technology to understand geometry
3 November 2016 The algebra will set your heart aflutter.
27 October 2016 Constructing a spiderweb: in the spookiest and most horrific way possible!
20 October 2016 The Great Fire of London, a little-known polymath and a Monument...
13 October 2016 A blast from the past. Modelling battle grounds from ancient Greece.
3 October 2016 Problem solving 101, proof by storytelling, plus the return of all your favourite fun pages in our autumn 2016 edition.
3 October 2016 Never be stumped by a maths problem again, with this crash course from the ever-competent Stephen Muirhead
3 October 2016 James Grime gets intimate with 'the most beautiful woman in the world' from the golden age of Hollywood
3 October 2016 Colin Wright juggles Euler, doodling and Millennium problems
3 October 2016 Make your own treasures, guaranteed to be priceless on a future episode of Antiques Roadshow
2 October 2016 Tuesday 11 October, 7.15pm. Come along! Featuring hundreds of free copies of Chalkdust, free pizza, and the chance to purchase a Chalkdust T-shirt.
29 September 2016 A review of Timothy Revell's new book, describing the hidden mathematics behind our world
15 September 2016 If only the Earth were flat...
8 September 2016 Applying game theory to evolution
2 September 2016 What can a 100-year-old result in topology say about weather and computers?
25 August 2016 Donald Duck learns that there is “a lot more to mathematics than two-times-two”.
18 August 2016 Exploring the maths on offer at this year's UK hacker festival.
11 August 2016 How the queue size tells you when the next bus is coming
4 August 2016 Believe it or not: Mathematics and Theology can coexist
28 July 2016 Are you a winner?
21 July 2016 Looking for a neat description of this useful matrix part-inverse
14 July 2016 Can you solve these puzzles about differentiation and integration?
7 July 2016 Difficulties in designing a voting system for referenda
30 June 2016 Using Markov chains to calculate some interesting tennis stats!
13 March 2016 Counting the divisors of an integer turns out to be a rather hard problem
13 March 2016 Why voting systems can never be fair
13 March 2016 How can we differentiate a function 9¾ times?
3 March 2016 Explaining how surface tension makes water form surprising shapes
25 February 2016 Your first peek at our Spring issue
18 February 2016 Additional roads do not imply faster travel times!
11 February 2016 Agony uncle Professor Dirichlet answers your personal problems this Valentine's Day.
11 February 2016 Make the perfect gift for your loved one
4 February 2016 How can we identify objects in photos, to diagnose cancer or predict the weather? Using gradients!
28 January 2016 Simple Statistics can help businesses make informed decisions
21 January 2016 Introducing polyominoes
19 January 2016 Amaze your friends with our top facts about the new largest known prime number
14 January 2016 Is there life on Mars? Or anywhere else?
7 January 2016 Exploring mental arithmetic tricks in T. Martin's 1842 guide, 'Pounds, shillings and pence'
31 December 2015 Have you read the best of the blog?
24 December 2015 Something for you to solve during the post-Christmas lull
17 December 2015 Agony uncle Professor Dirichlet answers your personal problems this Christmastime.
10 December 2015 Are you a winner?
3 December 2015 Making gingerbread Platonic solids, Fröbel stars and Christmas flexagons
26 November 2015 We have received loads of feedback from people telling us their favourite function
19 November 2015 Three ways to obtain and generalise a beautiful fractal
12 November 2015 Chalkdust visits popular maths' biggest conference
10 November 2015 (1925 - 2015)
5 November 2015 Explaining the tautological Twitter bot
29 October 2015 Because we love functions!
22 October 2015 Where should you choose to take a conversion kick from?
15 October 2015 Some mathematical questions you might have wondered every time you look at one of those rainbows
8 October 2015 What difference will an extra 10 balls make?
6 October 2015 Robert Smith? tells us how his favourite matrix saves lives
6 October 2015 Why does warm water freeze faster than cold water?
6 October 2015 What happens if you play the prisoners' dilemma against yourself?
6 October 2015 David Colquhoun explains why more discoveries are false than you thought
1 October 2015 Take two phone books and interleave all their pages one by one. Now try and pull them apart by their spines. Impossible, right?
24 September 2015 Find out what's going to be inside
17 September 2015 Maths on Toast is a charity that aims to challenge and change the public's perception of mathematics...
27 August 2015 The extreme weirdness of slow viscous flows, and why borrowers shouldn't use doggy paddle.
13 August 2015 Let's print your thesis in Comic Sans
6 August 2015 Do we have a natural limitation on the number of friends that we have?
23 July 2015 Did you use meta-logic to solve the crossnumber?
16 April 2015 Ghostbusting with graph theory
16 April 2015 What a difference a matrix makes
24 March 2015 Investigate the mathematics of wormholes