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Elinor is a PhD student at the Open University studying the history of maths. She loves maths, history and most things in between!

Solving a cubic in 1646
Elinor Flavell takes squaring the circle to another level
Review of “Getting Triggy with it”
Find out what we thought of Matt Parker's 2025 Edinburgh Fringe show
In conversation with Alison Etheridge
Elinor Flavell talks to the recently appointed dame about life, mathematics and more.
Christmas puzzle #2: A Christmas nonogram
Puzzle #2 in our 2020 Christmas puzzle series
Pretend numbers
20 questions, the axiom of choice and colouring sequences.
Winning the Chalkdust coin game
How to win a game when your expected score is 0