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(In James Doohan’s voice:) “Captain, I cannae get ethical approval for beaming you up.”

Bea is a PhD student in the computer science department at UCL. Since joining the team she’s found that the other editors find the phrase ‘it needs more white space’ very triggering.

Borwein integrals
Aimen Khan ponders how patterns break down
A Year in Numbers
We review the seventh of this year's nominees for Book of the Year
In conversation with Martin Hairer
We talk to the Fields medallist about his life, his work and his advice to his younger self.
Cardioids in coffee cups
Staring at your coffee, you wonder whether the light reflecting in cup really is a cardioid curve...
Forget a new £1 coin, we need a £1.23 coin
Not the new coin we want, but the new coin we need
Killing by numbers: the mathematics of warfare
A blast from the past. Modelling battle grounds from ancient Greece.