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A hexagon, divided into six equilateral triangles.

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.

On the cover: Voronoi diagrams and generative art
Hayden Mankin combines traditional art with randomness
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 $\square$?
Dear Dirichlet, Issue 14
Football, telly and shape-shifting houses find their way into the prof's postbox this issue.
In conversation with Ulrike Tillmann
Sophie Maclean and David Sheard speak to a very top(olog)ical mathematician!