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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 $\square$?
Celebrating simple mathematical models
Hollis Williams explores the power even simple models can have in describing the world around us.
Issue 05
Graphical linear algebra, slide rules and game theory in nature. Plus all your favourite fun pages in our spring 2017 issue.
How to make: Christmas Special
Making gingerbread Platonic solids, Fröbel stars and Christmas flexagons
What’s your favourite number?
Favourite numbers for many are linked to birthdays or anniversaries, but here is our take on the question