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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.
Fun with Markov chains
I love Markov is I love Markov chains love me.
Cutting my birthday cake
How to make the most slices from just a few cuts of cake
Names for large numbers
Extending the million, billion, trillion system to much, much bigger numbers
Fractional calculus: the calculus of witchcraft and wizardry
How can we differentiate a function 9¾ times?
New largest prime number discovered!
Amaze your friends with our top facts about the new largest known prime number