Book - Chalkdust

Carmen is doing a PhD in applied mathematics at UCL with a focus on mathematical modelling of complex systems in urban environments. She enjoys maths outreach, eating cheese naan, and has been working for Chalkdust since 2017.

Read Issue 21 now!
Sudoku, potatoes and crossnumber's biggest secrets finally revealed in our spring 2025 issue. Plus all your favourite columns!
Chalkdust issue 13 – Coming 1 May
A great start to the month of Maying
Artificial music
Carmen Cabrera Arnau explores the use of AI in composition
Review: Power in numbers — the rebel women of mathematics
Celebrate International Women's day by reading about rebel women in mathematics!
Our favourite (and not-so-favourite) Euler equations
A collection of our favourite and least favourite things named after Euler, from issue 07
Killing by numbers: the mathematics of warfare
A blast from the past. Modelling battle grounds from ancient Greece.