David-desk - Chalkdust

We like your keyboard, David

Calum is a lecturer in physics at Edge Hill University where he studies topological solitons and enjoys talking about maths and physics to anyone who will listen. He can often be found on the side of a mountain or out on a bike, talking to himself about solitons.

Oπnions: In defence of toy models
Calum gets on his soap box about toy models
Cryptic wordsearch, Issue 19
Can you solve it?
On the cover: skyrmions
Sven Bjarke Gudnason and Calum Ross introduce you to the wonderful world of skyrmions
On curvature: cars, clothoids and cartography
Issah Merchant discusses the geometric principles behind, and real-world applications of, curvature
Maths trumps review
A mathematically-themed version of the classic card game, with several new features
Issue 04
Problem solving 101, proof by storytelling, plus the return of all your favourite fun pages in our autumn 2016 edition.

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Oπnions: In defence of toy models

Cryptic wordsearch, Issue 19

On the cover: skyrmions

On curvature: cars, clothoids and cartography

Maths trumps review

Issue 04