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Fermi calculating an estimate of the best pose for a photo

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
Too good to be Truchet
Colin Beveridge looks at different designs for 2- and 3-dimensional tiles
Roots: Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal was driven to begin the mechanisation of mathematics by his father's struggles with an accounts book in 17th century France.
Dear Dirichlet, Issue 01
Moonlighting agony uncle Professor Dirichlet answers our readers' personal problems.

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