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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.

The power of curly brackets
Mats Vermeeren sketches a simple proof of Noether's first theorem
Crossnumber winners, Issue 14
Did you solve it?
An odd card trick
Michael Wendl dissects some variants of the magic separation, a self-working card trick.
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!
Variations on Fermat: an agony in four fits
Fermat's Last Theorem with complex powers, wrapped in a story every mathematician can relate to