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Madeleine is a pHd StUdEnT in mathematics and behavioural genomics at Imperial College London. She likes open water swimming, toast, the Oxford comma, and tHiS mEmE. She has still found none of her optimised strokes of any use in the Serpentine.

Significant figures: Gladys West
Madeleine Hall looks at one of the minds behind GPS
My favourite LaTeX package
The Chalkdust editors share some of their favourites
At Sixes and Sevens
We review the fourth of this year’s nominees for the Book of the Year
On the cover: Vhat? Vhere? Venn
Madeleine Hall takes a brief dive into the world’s favourite set-relationship-representation diagram.
On conditional probability: Cards, Covid, and Crazy Rich Asians
Madeleine Hall explores the sometimes counterintuitive consequences of conditional probability to our everyday lives.
Prize crossnumber, Issue 08
Win £100 of Maths Gear goodies by solving our famously fiendish crossnumber