cusp - Chalkdust

The cusp catastrophe. Rich Morris (singsurg.org), CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Antigoni is a PhD student at UCL working on Boundary Element Methods for electromagnetic scattering.

Surfing on wavelets
Johannes Huber explores the maths behind how image compression works.
Surname extinction
Why do surnames die out? We take a look at the Galton-Watson process for modelling the extinction of surnames to answer the question: 'When will we all be Smiths?'
Creating hot ice
We created hot ice from scratch, a solution that remains liquid even below its freezing point!
What’s your least favourite number?
Read about our least favourite numbers in this collection from issue 5!
Curiouser and curiouser!
Some surprising mathematical facts
Find your perfect partner
Find your perfect partner with this wonderful tree diagram!