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.
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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
Diagrammatic algebra: On the road to category theory
Aryan Ghobadi gives a maths lecture at a zoo
An irrational problem
Investigating the power of thinking rationally
Issue 04
Problem solving 101, proof by storytelling, plus the return of all your favourite fun pages in our autumn 2016 edition.
