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A graph, increasing quickly from x=2, y=2 towards y=pi as x gets larger

Clare (like gare) is a Chalkdust editor. In her spare time, she’s an assistant professor at Durham University. She likes Skittles, probability, and making the magazine look more like Cosmo.

Notched edge cards
Joe Celko makes a database from card and knitting needles
Chalkdust dissertation prize
Calling all final-year students!
The big argument: What’s the best way to end a proof?
QED or $\square$?
How can we tell that 2≠1?
Maynard manages to prove that 2≠1 in less space than it took Bertrand Russell to prove that 1+1=2
Review of The Element in the Room
Reviewing this week's conundrum prize... science-y stuff staring you in the face!
Review of Birth of a Theorem
Cédric Villani’s Birth of a Theorem tells the story of a mathematical theorem