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John Conway
Image Source: Thane Plambeck, CC BY 2.0

Jamie is a second year mathematics student at Christ’s College Cambridge. His main interests are in group theory, number theory, and a touch of algebraic geometry.

Issue 16
Fields medals, iconic intersections, and things with silly names coming your way in our autumn 2022 issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
Dog leads, mirrors and Hermann Minkowski
Donovan Young looks at the shapes made when two cones collide
How to Read Numbers
We review the second of this year's nominees for the Book of the Year
Significant figures: John Conway
The story of an unforgettable mathematician.
Adopt a polyhedron
Mara Kortenkamp, Erin Henning and Anna Maria Hartkopf give us a tour of Polytopia, a home for peculiar polytopes
Complex numbers and algebra
Exploring the beauty of complex numbers, their origins and why they are important

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