strictly - Chalkdust

Elizabeth, in a blue dress, ballroom dancing with a partner in black.

Shirley Ballas who?

Clare (like gare) is a Chalkdust editor. In her spare time, she’s an assistant professor at Durham University. She likes Skittles, probability, and making the magazine look more like Cosmo.

Chalkdust dissertation prize
Calling all final-year students!
The big argument: What’s the best way to end a proof?
QED or $\square$?
Roots: Gerolamo Cardano
Emma Bell explains why the Renaissance mathematician Gerolamo Cardano styled himself as the "man of discoveries".
The mathematics of brewing
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.
Stopping distances in the Highway Code are wrong
An easy equation to remember for your driving theory test, with dangerous consequences
In conversation with Ian Stewart
We speak to one of Britain's most successful popularisers of maths