Bees_8 - Chalkdust

Skipping a single pesticide spray just after the heatwave seemed to save the bees

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.
Chalkdust issue 16 – Coming 9 November
Hear ye! Hear ye! Chalkdust Magazine issue 16 is launching, full of mathematical joy and curiosity.
On the cover: Islamic geometry
Explaining the mathematics of tiling, and the cover of Issue 10
Tupper’s self-referential formula
A hideous equation that hides beautiful images, and much (much) more besides...