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Starship: surprisingly good builders

Enric is a PhD student at Imperial and UCL. He works mostly with singularities in differential geometry, AKA when smooth things become pointy. When he’s not in his office, you can usually find him cooking or playing board games.

In conversation with Jens Marklof
Bethany Clarke and Enric Solé-Farré chat to the professor and new president of the London Mathematical Society about academia, access and awards
How to be the least popular American president
Francisco Berkemeier takes a look at the mathematics behind elections, and the Electoral College, in the United States of America.
Top ten vote issue 10
Vote for your favourite picture of a scorpion
Counting palindromes
Alex Xela shows us the world of palindromic numbers, and calculates the chances of getting one
The mathematics of brewing
While drinking beer in your favourite pub, have you ever wondered how it is produced? Find here some of the science and mathematics behind brewing.
Why is it so hard to pull two phone books apart?
Take two phone books and interleave all their pages one by one. Now try and pull them apart by their spines. Impossible, right?