moire_curtain - 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.
Rewatch the Issue 12 virtual launch event
Now available to catch up on YouTube
How do calculators do trigonometry?
W.L. Feldhusen explains the obscure sine-finding trick hiding inside your calculator!
Magic behind the Fibonacci sequence
Let's take a look at patterns that can be discovered in Fibonacci numbers and how we can find them around us.
The Buckingham π theorem and the atomic bomb
Diego Carranza tells you to stop worrying and dimensionally analyse the bomb
Switching sides in a matrix equation
Looking for a neat description of this useful matrix part-inverse