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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 $\square$?
Can computers prove theorems?
And will we soon all be out of a job? Kevin Buzzard worries us all.
The mathematical con artist
Some summations seem strangely slippery...
The mathematics of brewing
While drinking beer in your favourite pub, have you ever wondered how it is produced? Find here some of the science and mathematics behind brewing.
A brief history of gravitational waves
The discovery of gravitational waves offers a new way of looking at the universe. Who knows what we will discover?