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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
Calling all final-year students!
The big argument: What’s the best way to end a proof?
QED or $\square$?
On the cover: Islamic geometry
Explaining the mathematics of tiling, and the cover of Issue 10
Review of Elastic Numbers
We have a go at the puzzles in Daniel Griller's new book
The simplest difficult task
Factorisation is often used in cryptography. But there's something even simpler which turns out to be just as hard.
Reinventing 2D
What a difference a matrix makes

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