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The 72 period 4 points comprise two groups of bat orbits (top row), a central cobweb, and stretched quadrilaterals along the arms

Clare Wallace

Clare (like gare) is a Chalkdust editor. In her spare time, she’s an assistant professor at Durham University. She likes Skittles, probability, and making the magazine look more like Cosmo.

Chalkdust dissertation prize 2025
Calling all final-year students! This is your opportunity to get your work published as a Chalkdust article.
Chalkdust dissertation prize
Calling all final-year students!
The big argument: What’s the best way to end a proof?
QED or $\square$?
In conversation with Ulrike Tillmann
Sophie Maclean and David Sheard speak to a very top(olog)ical mathematician!
Constructing a sphere with 455 cups
Paper cups do not follow a hexagonal pattern and the cones do not meet at a single point, but they do make a gigantic sphere
Finding the edge of your images
How can we identify objects in photos, to diagnose cancer or predict the weather? Using gradients!