beat - Chalkdust

Bea is a PhD student in the computer science department at UCL. Since joining the team she’s found that the other editors find the phrase ‘it needs more white space’ very triggering.

In conversation with Martin Hairer
We talk to the Fields medallist about his life, his work and his advice to his younger self.
The digital sum of the products of twin primes is 8?
What connects the products of twin primes with something you learnt in primary school and the number 8?
Top Ten vote: Colours of chalk
Vote for your favourite colour of chalk for Issue 04: is it white, yellow, or the Post Office Tower?
Finding the edge of your images
How can we identify objects in photos, to diagnose cancer or predict the weather? Using gradients!
The perils of p-values
David Colquhoun explains why more discoveries are false than you thought
Reinventing 2D: What a difference a matrix makes
How derivatives of matrices are being used in your day-to-day lives