Helen-desk - Chalkdust

Helen tries to remember her password

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.
Issue 06
Cardioids in coffee cups, counting with three fingers, and breakfast at Villani's. Plus the return of all your favourite fun pages in our autumn 2017 issue.
Cardioids in coffee cups
Staring at your coffee, you wonder whether the light reflecting in cup really is a cardioid curve...
The simplest difficult task
Factorisation is often used in cryptography. But there's something even simpler which turns out to be just as hard.
Hedy Lamarr: Hollywood star and secret inventor
James Grime gets intimate with 'the most beautiful woman in the world' from the golden age of Hollywood
Page 3 model: The Duckworth–Lewis method
Meet the Duckworth-Lewis method, 23, from Lancashire