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Published 26 October 2024 at 619 × 401 in Ferm-ant’s principle

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Sam is a maths student at Durham University where he hosts
Chalkboard Ultra podcast and spends too much time thinking about the Standard Model and Mexican hats. If he’s not pestering Adam then he can definitely be found playing the keytar in a funk band completely unrelated to quantum field theory.

Chalkdust dissertation prize 2025
Calling all final-year students! This is your opportunity to get your work published as a Chalkdust article.
A symmetric universe
Sam Kay reflects on building a universe
The big argument: Should we write another issue?
How much barrel is left to scrape?
The big argument: What’s the best way to end a proof?
QED or $\square$?
Menace: the Machine Educable Noughts And Crosses Engine
Teaching a bunch of matchboxes how to play tic-tac-toe
Puzzles, Issue 02
These puzzles appeared in Issue 02 of the magazine.