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.
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Crossnumber winners, Issue 17
Did you solve it?
Artificial music
Carmen Cabrera Arnau explores the use of AI in composition
Review of Problem Solving in GCSE Mathematics
We have a go at the puzzles in Daniel Griller’s new book
Review: Power in numbers — the rebel women of mathematics
Celebrate International Women's day by reading about rebel women in mathematics!
The sieve of Eratosthenes: revisited
How can we teach people about the sieve in a way that helps them best understand prime numbers?
Thoughts on the crossnumber
Did you use meta-logic to solve the crossnumber?
