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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.

On the cover: Voronoi diagrams and generative art
Hayden Mankin combines traditional art with randomness
Issue 20
Spirographs, complex triangles and a lot of ants feature in our AW24 issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
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!
The simplest difficult task
Factorisation is often used in cryptography. But there's something even simpler which turns out to be just as hard.
Christmas cracker joke I
Behind today's door... a good joke!