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Double torus with a pink ring where the two toruses join and a orange ring going between the "doughnut holes"

…but cutting either of these would lead to having fewer than four cuts or more than one piece.

Ashleigh is a PhD student and graduate teaching assistant at the University of Leicester. Her main mathematical interests are in number theory. She is passionate about outreach and inclusion in mathematics, volunteers as a STEM ambassador and is a representative for the Piscopia Initiative.

The human mug
Potatoes, mugs and doughnuts with Ashleigh Ratcliffe.
In conversation with Robin Wilson
Ashleigh Wilcox and Ellen Jolley chat to the professor and maths communicator about books, the Open University and music
On the cover: Spirographs
Ashleigh Wilcox, Jenny Power and Rachel Evans show you how to draw pretty pictures
Markov unchained
Ashleigh Wilcox looks for integer solutions to the Markov equation
Page 3 model: Cooking spaghetti
Some saucy modelling
Surname extinction
Why do surnames die out? We take a look at the Galton-Watson process for modelling the extinction of surnames to answer the question: 'When will we all be Smiths?'

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