catan - Chalkdust

Settlers of Catan’s board is based on hexagons.

Image: Catan Wikimedia Commons user Yonghokim, CC BY-SA 4.0

Calum is a lecturer in physics at Edge Hill University where he studies topological solitons and enjoys talking about maths and physics to anyone who will listen. He can often be found on the side of a mountain or out on a bike, talking to himself about solitons.

Oπnions: In defence of toy models
Calum gets on his soap box about toy models
Cryptic wordsearch, Issue 19
Can you solve it?
On the cover: skyrmions
Sven Bjarke Gudnason and Calum Ross introduce you to the wonderful world of skyrmions
Overturned polygons: shapes with less than two sides
Hugh Duncan explores polygons with a shortage of edges
Routes: Edsger Dijkstra
In this edition of the series, we instead learn about 'routes' and Edsger Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm.
Can you solve these puzzles?
While we work on issue 2